Psychoanalysis Books
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure: The Turning of the Screw
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the malaise of the contemporary individual by returning the economic point of view of Freudian thinking, the concept of satisfaction, libido, and... (more)
The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning: The Bion/Meltzer Vertex
In The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning, Carlos Tabbia addresses fundamental questions of psychoanalytic theory and technique, unfolding them for the reader in an elegant, passionate, and poetic... (more)
Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis
The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding the... (more)
Who's to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial
Who’s to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial presents a psychoanalytic exploration of blame and collective guilt in the aftermath of large-scale atrocities that cause widespread trauma and... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Reflections on Masculinity
In this highly original volume, Gunnar Karlsson offers new answers to the question concerning the relationship between belonging to a specific sex as a male and striving for a masculine... (more)
The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis: History and Contemporary Relevance
This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the twentieth century until today.
Having... (more)
Psychoanalysis, COVID and Mass Trauma: The Trauma of Reality
In this book, constructed as a psychoanalytic diary, the authors reflect on clinical observations from their work with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracking these singular experiences to... (more)
Individuality and Ideology in British Object Relations Theory
Following the work of prominent object relations theorists, such as Fairbairn, Suttie and Winnicott, Gal Gerson explores the correlation between analytical theory and intellectual environment in two... (more)
Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis
In this compelling book, Lauren Levine explores the transformative power of stories and storytelling in psychoanalysis to heal psychic wounds and create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality: A Contemporary Introduction
This important book examines the ways in which same sex desire, or "homosexuality" has been theorised by psychoanalysis during its history to date and the impact of that on clinical... (more)
Underlying Assumptions in Psychoanalytic Schools: A Comparative Perspective
This book offers a comparative study of the major schools of psychoanalysis by exploring their historical development, their differences and similarities, and the underlying assumptions made by... (more)
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London
March 1938: German soldiers are massing on the Austrian border, on the cusp of fulfilling Hitler's dream of absorbing the country into the Third Reich. Many Jews make frantic plans to flee to safety.... (more)
Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis: Rings and Voids
In Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis, Pablo Lerner questions, and takes a step beyond, the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its emphasis on the sovereignty of language and... (more)
Chaos and Control: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Unfolding Creative Minds
This book explores the role of chaos and control in the creative process as well as the difference between talent and creativity. Part One describes explores some of the common biases and pitfalls in... (more)
The Tavistock Century: 2020 Vision
Gathering together an incredible array of contributors from the past century of the Tavistock to cover all aspects of amazing work they do. With chapters from David Armstrong, James Astor, Andrew... (more)
Spiritually Sensitive Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
This book provides an accessible introduction to spiritually sensitive psychoanalysis, an analytic tradition characterized by sensitivity to the spiritual and religious dimensions of human life and... (more)
The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Pere Folch Mateu
The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis presents selected key papers by leading Spanish psychoanalyst Pere Folch Mateu.
The pieces chosen for this book address clinical, psychopathological,... (more)
Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads: An International Perspective
In this clear and thoughtful book, an international group of distinguished authors explore the central issues and future directions facing psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The book explores... (more)
Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession: Prestige TV and the Contradictions of the Liberal Class
Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions of uppermiddle-class political... (more)
Finding Winnicott: Philosophical Encounters with the Psychoanalytic
In Finding Winnicott: Philosophical Encounters with the Psychoanalytic, Fadi Abou-Rihan expands upon Winnicott’s category of the found object and argues that a genuine understanding of the analyst’s... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism: A Realizational Perspective
In this book, Cooper brings together psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism by offering a comprehensive and integrated model, described as "The Realizational Model", that is consistent with the core... (more)
The Science and Art of Dreaming
The Science and Art of Dreaming is an innovative text that reviews the neuroscience and psychology of how dreams are produced, how they are recalled and their relationship to waking life events and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Toileting: Minding One’s Business
Psychoanalysis and Toileting is an accessible book that delineates and interprets the psychological meanings of defecating and urinating in everyday life.
Paul Marcus’ work gives the clinician... (more)
Psychoanalytic Investigations in Philosophy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Current Existential Challenges
This pioneering volume explores and exemplifies the relevance of psychoanalysis to contemporary philosophical problems. The novelty of the book's viewpoint is the consideration of psychoanalysis as... (more)
A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis: Erasing Trauma
A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis returns us to the birth of psychoanalysis and the trauma of castration that is its umbilicus.
The story told in this book centers on the genital... (more)
Critical Psychoanalytic Social Work: Research and Case Studies for Clinical Practice
This international and interdisciplinary collection argues for the use of clinical-based practices and research in social work, bringing together critical psychoanalytic ideas into social work... (more)
The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes: The Art and the Science
The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes provides a unique and integrative introduction to dream science. It addresses a notable gap in cognitive psychology on the subject of dreams and explores... (more)
White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives looks at race and the significant role it plays in society and in clinical practice. Much of the effort going into racial consciousness-raising rests on... (more)
Uprooted Minds: A Social Psychoanalysis for Precarious Times: Second Edition
In the second edition of Uprooted Minds, Hollander offers a unique social psychoanalytic exploration of our increasingly destabilized political environment, augmented by her research into the... (more)
Freud's Adolescence: Oedipus Complex and Parricidal Tendencies
In Freud’s Adolescence, Florian Houssier looks at the early years of the Father of Psychoanalysis and considers how his personal experiences shaped his later work. Including excerpts from many... (more)