Psychoanalysis Books
misReading Plato: Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask
This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights and reflections on the nature of the human psyche and the human condition.
By approaching the... (more)
Violence or Dialogue?: Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism
Our understanding of terrorism since the events of September 11th 2001 has usually been channelled through the two dimensional lens of religion and politics. This important new work contributes a... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women: A Tragic Reading of Politics
Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women applies the "tragic" reading of politics, presented by Euripides in his play, The Suppliant Women, to the contemporary world.
Manolopoulos presents... (more)
Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society
Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society describes leadership as a relationship between leaders and followers in a particular context and challenges theories of leadership now being taught.
This... (more)
Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today: Femininity, Desire and Agency
In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question ‘What do Women Want Today?’ from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in... (more)
Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Breaking Boundaries
Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis traces the emergence of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and demonstrates how the radical, cross-disciplinary dialogues that form... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem
In this volume, internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts, philosophers, and scholars of humanities examine the mind-body problem and provide differing analyses on the nature of mind, unconscious... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents: College student development and treatment
In this book, Philip Rosenbaum and Richard Webb consider the complexities of working as counselors and psychotherapists for college students, and offer a broad and detailed account of the... (more)
Clinical Spinoza: Integrating His Philosophy with Contemporary Therapeutic Practice
Discovering Spinoza's early modern psychology some 35 years into his own clinical practice, Ian Miller now gives shape to this connection through a close reading of Spinoza's key philosophical... (more)
Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought
What do dreams manage to say-or indeed, show-about human experience that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life be understood as a form of political avowal? To what does a... (more)
Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory
This book brings together psychoanalysis, clinical and theoretical, with history in a study of remembering as reparation: not compensation, but recognition of the actuality of perpetration and the... (more)
The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep: A Relational Approach to Internalized Perpetration in Complex Trauma Survivors
The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and... (more)
Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity
'The lives of women are inextricably linked to the well-being of children. If they are not educated, if they are not healthy, if they are not empowered, the children are the ones who suffer.' (UNICEF... (more)
Sigmund Freud
However much his work has been reviled or contested, Sigmund Freud remains one of the most significant thinkers of the last 150 years. He founded psychoanalysis, and his vision of human behaviour and... (more)
The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred
What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious... (more)
Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature: Echoes from the Front Lines
This book presents unique insights into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, psychoanalytic work with trauma and perspectives from literature.
Part One... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Maternal Absence: From the Traumatic to Faith and Trust
Experience of maternal absence manifests in a variety of ways and this book explores a selection of its emotional, psychical, and somatic consequences as they relate to an individual's relationship... (more)
Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice
The highly arcane wisdom produced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is either endlessly regurgitated and recited as holy writ by his numerous acolytes, or radically dismissed as unpalatable... (more)
Birth to Psychic Life
Based on rich clinical experience and on theory from numerous psychoanalytical works, this book explores and analyses the emergence and development of the psychic life.
Birth to Psychic Life... (more)
Bion's Legacy in Sao Paulo: Theoretical Applications from the Sao Paulo Psychoanalytic Society (SBPSP)
This collection illuminates the legacy of Wilfred R. Bion in Brazil, illustrating Bion's continued influence on the work of the Sao Paulo Psychoanalytic Society (SBPSP), how Bionian ideas are applied... (more)
Parenthood and Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Shaping the Therapeutic Setting
This book presents a comprehensive overview of psychoanalytic work with immigrant mothers, fathers, and their children, combining clinical examples and contemporary research to explore ways in which... (more)
Identity Politics: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
Identity politics have taken a strong hold on modern society, in particular online on social media platforms. But to what extent have they contributed to human flourishing? Have they changed the... (more)
On Getting Better
To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we... (more)
Building Bridges: The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis
In Building Bridges, Stuart A. Pizer gives much-needed recognition to the central role of negotiation in the analytic relationship and in the therapeutic process. Building on a Winnicottian... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Social Action: Act Signatures of the Unconscious
Dieter Flader explores how current social and cultural concerns are connected to the unconscious, and how this affects our responses to them. Flader focuses on the role of the ego, assessing how our... (more)
Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition
This book presents the first in-depth study of online misogyny and the manosphere from a psychoanalytic perspective.
The author argues that the men of the manosphere present contradictory... (more)
Psychoanalytic Diaries of the COVID-19 Pandemic: There Is a Virus Among Us
This intimate book explores the experiences of two psychoanalysts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It presents Angelo Antonio Moroni’s psychoanalytic diary and Pietro Roberto Goisis’s clinical... (more)
The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro: Theoretical Analysis and Clinical Application
This exciting and original collection explores Antonino Ferro's post-Bionian Field Theory, expanding upon the analytic work of Wilfred Bion to focus on the intersubjective development of psychic... (more)
Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature: Lawrence and Joyce on Trial
Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature offers a fascinating psychoanalytic reading of four landmark obscenity trials involving the texts of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce. By tracing the legal... (more)
Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning: Communication and the Marriage of Minds
Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning explores the nature and origins of widespread problems of self in modern societies. It examines the paradoxical interplay between the modern world's many... (more)