Psychoanalysis Books
Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan
Drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, the author shows that Kant and Lacan stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility -... (more)
War Memoirs 1917-1919
Bion's War Memoirs is perhaps the most exceptional piece of autobiography yet written by a psychoanalyst. The first section of the book is documentary, consisting of the entire text of the diaries... (more)
The Baby and the Bathwater
A collection of papers, forming a useful introduction to, and expression of, English psychoanalysis in the Independent Tradition. (more)
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must... (more)
Changing Ideas in a Changing World: The Revolution in Psychoanalysis - Essays in Honour of Arnold Cooper
Arnold Cooper has been a consistent innovator and advocate for practical and evidence-based advances in psychoanalysis. This book is inspired by his work and offers refreshing views on changes in the... (more)
Fairbairn and Relational Theory
The richness of Fairbairn's work is demonstrated in a series of essays offering a unique exploration of the application of his concepts to diverse areas ranging from philosophy to psychopathology.... (more)
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
The author surveys Bion's publications and elaborates on his key contributions in depth while also critiquing them. The scope of this work is to synopsize, synthesize, and extend Bion's works in a... (more)
Deconstructing the Feminine: Psychoanalysis, Gender and Theories of Complexity
The guiding thread of this theoretical review is the illumination of the impasses of binary thought and of the essentialist conceptions of women and the feminine. In this trajectory, the author's... (more)
On the Way Home: Conversations Between Writers and Psychoanalysts
See catalogue number 27201 for the paperback edition. 'On The Way Home' is a series of public dialogues intended to forge links between psychoanalysis and other disciplines, including the physical... (more)
The Freudian Moment
Bollas eloquently argues for a return to our understanding of how Freudian psychoanalysis works unconscious to unconscious. Failure to follow Freud's basic assumptions about psychoanalytical... (more)
Interpretation and Difference: The Strangeness of Care
A companion to Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros, which dealt with the psychoanalytic clinical problem of resistance to interpretation. The surprising generality of this resistance... (more)
Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Mortal Terror
This book argues that conventional interpretations of Freudian psychology have not accounted for the existence and complexity of death anxiety and its intrinsic relation to the creation of illusions... (more)
The Science of False Memory: An Integrative Approach
Weaves together the common threads of the four major topics that comprise the core of false memory research: theories of false memory, adult experimental psychology of false memory, false memory in... (more)
Recollecting Freud
An eyewitness account by one of Freud's earliest students. Sadger's recollections provide a window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movement and its internecine and ideological conflicts.... (more)
Resolution of Inner Conflict - An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Therapy:
A step-by-step analysis of the key points in the process of psychoanalytic therapy as well as important topics and issues that may arise during therapy. The guide is supported with references to... (more)
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?:
Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? A. D. Nuttall's work offers answers to this perennial question. (more)
In Over Our Heads
This text proposes a theory of evolving ways of knowing that allows a view of adult development similar to that of child development: an open-ended process, born of the dynamic interaction of... (more)
The New Psychoanalysis
This volume examines the effects of the unconscious on emotional experience asking if our drives are friend or foe in the search for a satisfactory life. (more)