Psychoanalysis Books
Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation
Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art examines a strain of artists spanning more than a century, beginning at the dawn of photography and culminating in the discussion of contemporary artists, to... (more)
Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis: Cultural, Clinical, and Research Perspectives
This book is the first comprehensive treatment in recent decades of silence and silencing in psychoanalysis from clinical and research perspectives, as well as in philosophy, theology, linguistics,... (more)
Different Paths Towards Becoming a Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist:
This book describes the personal journey of a collection of contributors, detailing their pathways to becoming psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, with insights from many of the most interesting... (more)
Women and Psychoanalysis: The Collected Papers of Lucy Holmes
This remarkable collection charts the professional growth of one psychoanalyst from student to seasoned clinician to provide a guidebook for how psychoanalytic theory is conceptualized, created and... (more)
The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalysis
This book examines the interaction of spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages with psychotherapy in everyday practice. Written by a team of seasoned clinicians and illustrated through clinical... (more)
Exploring the Emotional Life of the Mind: A Psychodynamic Theory of Emotions
This highly innovative new book reconsiders the structure of basic emotions, the self and the mind. It clinically covers mental disorders, therapeutic interventions, defense mechanisms, consciousness... (more)
When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron
This extraordinary volume offers a sampling of Lewis Aron's most important contributions to relational psychoanalysis.
One of the founders of relational thinking, Aron was an internationally... (more)
Social Aspects Of Sexual Boundary Trouble In Psychoanalysis: Responses to the Work of Muriel Dimen
Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen, Social Aspects of Sexual Boundary Trouble goes beyond the established consensus that sexual boundary violations (SBV) constitute a... (more)
The Contemporary Freudian Tradition: Past and Present
This is the first book dedicated to the Contemporary Freudian Tradition. In its introduction, and through its selection of papers, it describes the development and rich diversity of this tradition... (more)
Race, Rage, and Resistance: Philosophy, Psychology, and the Perils of Individualism
This timely collection asks the reader to consider how society's modern notion of humans as rational, isolated individuals has contributed to psychological and social problems and oppressive power... (more)
Psychoanalysis of Aging and Maturity: The Concept of Maturescence
As developing countries increasingly confront the issues of an aging population, this important book identifies the key period in the life cycle in which changes to the body, as well as concomitant... (more)
Madness and the Social Link: The Jean-Max Gaudilliere Seminars 1985 - 2000
This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.
The first of two volumes, Madness and the Social Link: The Jean-Max... (more)
A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter
A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter is written for all psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists who practise under the broad banner of psychoanalytic thinking. It is also for... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life: Common Distress, Individual Experience
Bringing together a dozen contributions from psychoanalysts of many different countries and theoretical orientations, Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life, a collective work edited by Howard Levine and... (more)
Sigmund Freud: The Basics
Sigmund Freud: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction to the life and ideas of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis and a key figure in the history of psychology.
Janet Sayers... (more)
Psychology as Ethics: Reading Jung with Kant, Nietzsche and Aristotle
Through his clinical work and extensive engagement with major figures of the philosophical tradition, Jung developed an original and pluralistic psycho-ethical model based on the cooperation of... (more)
The Birth of a Political Self: The Jean-Max Gaudilliere Seminars 2001-2014
This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.
The second of two volumes, The Birth of a Political Self: The Jean-Max... (more)
Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting
W. R. D. Fairbairn (1889-1964) challenged the dominance of Freud's drive theory with a psychoanalytic theory based on the internalization of human relationships. Fairbairn assumed that the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports
This book is a unique volume that brings a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of sport. It highlights the importance of sports for different individuals and how the function and use... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd: Existentialism and Phenomenology in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd offers an interdisciplinary study of Existentialism and Phenomenology and their importance to the clinical work of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. The... (more)
The Soul Always Thinks: Volume 4
C. G. Jung regarded the soul to be a reality in its own right which reflects itself in all manner of images and events. symbols and traditions. In this fourth volume of his Collected English Papers,... (more)
Technology and the Soul: From the Nuclear Bomb to the World Wide Web
C. G. Jung famously declared that it is not the psyche that is in us, but rather we who are in the psyche. Updating this insight, the second volume of Wolfgang Giegerich's Collected English Papers... (more)
The Neurosis of Psychology: Primary Papers Towards a Critical Psychology
This first volume of The Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich takes its title from Giegerich's ground-breaking paper, On the Neurosis of Psychology, or The Third of the Two, originally... (more)
The Unconscious: Contemporary Refractions In Psychoanalysis
This book explores the unconscious in psychoanalysisusing cross-disciplinary input from the cultural, social and linguistic perspectives. This book is the first contemporary collection applying the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women, Menstruation and Secondary Amenorrhea
"I can be a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister and a woman without having periods." This book explores two of the oldest and most important symbols of all time: menstruation and secondary... (more)
Bodies and Social Rhythms: Navigating Unconscious Vulnerability and Emotional Fluidity
This exciting new book traces the development of an unfolding challenge for psychoanalytic attention, which augments contemporary theoretical lenses focusing on structures of meaning, with an... (more)
Affect in Artistic Creativity: Painting to Feel
Why do painters paint? Obviously, there are numerous possible reasons. They paint to create images for others' enjoyment, to solve visual problems, to convey ideas, and to contribute to a rich... (more)
Winnicott and Kohut on Intersubjectivity and Complex Disorders: New Perspectives for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychiatry
Given the complexity of scientific developments inside and outside the psychoanalytic field, traditional definitions of basic psychoanalytic notions are no longer sufficiently comprehensive. We need... (more)
Sexual Difference, Abjection and Liminal Spaces: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Abhorrence of the Feminine
This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways in which sexual difference can be understood as an encounter with otherness through the abjected, investigating social discourses and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Insights into Fundamentalism and Conviction: The Certainty Principle
Psychoanalytic Insights into Fundamentalism and Conviction: The Certainty Principle examines the role of, and need for, certainty in mental life, addressing questions raised by fundamentalism and... (more)