Psychoanalysis Books
Work and the evolving self:
This volume presents a psychoanalytic perspective on work life. The author focuses on the workplace and examines the meaning of work throughout the life cycle. He explores the various dimensions of... (more)
Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man
"Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man" is not just a book about doing psychotherapy with gay men. It is also a chronicle of the historal state of relationships between two controversial cultural... (more)
Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process
This work develops a paradigm for psychoanalysis that cuts across all the major schools of psychoanalytic thought. With detailed clinical illustrations the author demonstrates the advantages of a... (more)
Psychological trauma:
For 1998, the annual "Review of Psychiatry" will now be sold independently and the six monographs for 1998 are "Psychopathology and Violent Crime", "Addictions", "Psychological Trauma", "Biology of... (more)
Women, men and gender: Ongoing debates
Gender controversies - about knowing and learning, conversational style, partner violence, sexuality, leadership styles and pornography - provoke heated discussion. Eighteen controversies are... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Race
This collection of essays studies the seemingly permanent racial undercurrents of society, focusing on unconscious fantasies and identities. The essays engage with postcolonial, political, and... (more)
Neurosis and Human Growth
Reissued in a new format as a special 40th anniversary edition, Karen Horney's study offers insights into the neurotic processes of 'coping' (viewed as a special form of human development) and... (more)
The Freudian calling: Early Viennese psychoanalysis and the pursuit of cultural science
This work is a historical study of the early Freudian movement in Vienna and its contribution to cultural theory. The author explores Freud's writings on art, society, and history in light of the... (more)
Seasons Of A Man's Life
115p Paperback 1991
Understanding Freud: The man and his ideas
This volume brings together contributions from experts well-placed to introduce both the layman and the scholar to important facets of Freud's life and work. Subjects covered include the significance... (more)
Theories of Psychotherapy: Origins and Evolution
This text examines the five theoretical concepts which have been most significant in helping psychotherapists understand and treat their clients. The evolution of these concepts over time is explored... (more)
Rider Haggard, Henry Miller and I: The Unpublished Writer
Explores the psychological and archetypal forces at work in the minds and hearts of those called to write, but who suffer rejection after rejection until finally recognised. (more)
Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
This collection of some of Louis Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought documents his relationship with Jacques Lacan and presents aspects of his personal and intellectual life. (more)
The Languages of Psychoanalysis
This survey of "the communicative repertory of humans" demonstrates the central importance of the theory and therapeutics of the communication of information. It explores modes of communication... (more)
Object Relations and Self Psychology: An introduction.
Offers students with little experimental background a 'how-to' manual, taking them through the steps of designing, executing, interpreting, and reporting simple psychological experiments. The text... (more)
Karen Horney: A psychoanalyst's search for self-understanding
Karen Horney is regarded by many as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the 20th century. This book argues that Horney's inner struggles, in particular her compulsive need for men,... (more)
Self-Analysis: Critical Inquiries, Personal Visions
A collection of papers on the possible usefulness of self-analysis.
Three psychologies: Perspectives from Freud, Skinner, and Rogers
The essential ideas of Freud, Skinner, and Rogers - three of the most important contributors to contemporary psychological thought - are presented in this volume. The chapters include basic ideas,... (more)
The Wolf Man's Magic Word
An examination of Freud's famous study with particular emphasis on the languages used. (more)
Maelzel's Chess Player: Sigmund Freud and the Rhetoric of Deceit
Argues that Freud's works have no 'scientific' status and that they are no more the rhetorical deceptions of a talented writer.
Self and Other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature
This text argues for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behaviour and intersubjectivity. Rogers provides a... (more)
Psychoanalysis at 100
This volume brings together eminent U.S. analysts, looking at the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, comparing past and present. The contributors attempt to extend their analytical explorations... (more)