Psychoanalysis Books
The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology
The ground-breaking book which attempts to bridge the gap between the psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological theories of child development. (more)
Unimaginable Storms: A Search for Meaning in Psychosis
A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care... (more)
Subjects of Analysis
In this brilliant contribution to psychoanlaytic theory and practice, the author has once again challenged psychoanalytic clinicians to expand the conceptual envelope that confines and constricts... (more)
Clinical and Observational Psychoanalytic Research: Roots of a Controversy - Andre Green & Daniel Stern
Few topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. The text collects papers from a London conference, along... (more)
Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood
To Freud, female sexuality remained something of a mystery: a riddle and a dark continent. He urged his female colleagues to enlighten him. Many have since done so - and this book is a most vivid and... (more)
Containing Anxiety in Institutions: Selected Essays Volume 1
This is a controversial collection, which makes available to a wider public an important part of the research tradition of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. The author extends her analytic... (more)
Love Relations: Normality and Pathology
From adolescence to old age, this work examines the success and failure of sexual love in couples. Amongst other topics, it describes the biological and psychological determinants and elements of the... (more)
Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions
Explores the role of aggression in severe personality disorders and in normal and perverse sexuality, integrating new developments in psycoanalytic theory with findings from clinical work with... (more)
Impasse and Interpretation: Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline and Neurotic Patients
A powerful argument for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms, and their alleviation through psychoanalytic means.
Theatres of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness
This book looks at people who react to psychological distress through somatic manifestations, and at the psychosomatic potential of individuals in those moments when habitual psychological ways of... (more)
Plea for a Measure of Abnormality
This is Joyce McDougall's most comprehensive clinical and theoretical book. Its title conveys her tolerant stance toward human differences and forms of deviance. It is among the wisest and best-loved... (more)
Creativity and Perversion
Explores the relationship and contrast between the creative mind and 'the artful universe of the pervert'.
Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein
A most lucid and comprehensive introduction to Kleinian theories from one of the leading contemporary Kleinian analysts, including new chapters on her early work and on technique. This is a reprint... (more)
Collected Papers on Schizophrenia and Related Subjects
Twenty-four papers on or relating to schizophrenia, written between 1951 and 1963. (more)
Psychotic States: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Psychotic States brings together a number of Herbert Rosenfeld's papers written between 1946 and 1964 dealing with the psychopathology and treatment of various psychotic and borderline conditions... (more)
Depression: A Contemporary Introduction
This book serves as a practical and comprehensive introduction to depression, and its deep roots in trauma.
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber looks at the heterogeneous and complex phenomenon of... (more)
Expanding Psychoanalysis: The Contributions of Susie Orbach
Expanding Psychoanalysis explores the work of the acclaimed psychoanalyst, writer, and activist Susie Orbach.
The book studies Orbach’s multifaceted career in five sections, examining her... (more)
Just About Coping: A Real-Life Drama from the Psychotherapist's Chair
At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie Cawley, is dealing with... (more)
Reading Bion’s Transformations
Reading Bion´s Transformations is an in-depth reading of Bion’s 1965 work, Transformations, and investigates the epitemiological concept of "O" introduced by Bion.
Throughout the book, Bion’s... (more)
What Does It Mean to Make Love?: A Psychoanalytic Study of Sexuality and Phantasy
What Does It Mean to Make Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often-unrecognised psychic bisexuality.
Everyone chooses a gender by repressing the... (more)
Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen: Working with the Obstructive Object
Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen examines Eigen’s rich phenomenological work on the Obstructive Object.
The contributors to this collection explore the core theme... (more)
Schizophrenia: A Contemporary Introduction
Schizophrenia: A Contemporary Introduction provides a vital overview of psychoanalytic work with patients dealing with schizophrenia, highlighting the many benefits of this approach and introducing... (more)
The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud
The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis presents a unique and provocative approach to the assimilation of these two disciplines while offering a thorough assessment of the unconscious from... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership attempts to explore the core psychodynamics that appear to characterize Vladimir Putin’s presidency.
Its... (more)
The Life-Death Instinct: Feeling Through Creative-Clinical Moments
Throughout this enlightening collection, Neil Maizels considers the helical tandem between the Life Instinct and the Death drive in the light of canonical literary figures like Thomas Hardy, Patricia... (more)
Psychoanalytic Studies of Change: An Integrative Perspective
Psychoanalytic Studies of Change presents recent studies of the process and outcome of psychoanalytic therapy with an integrative perspective.
A recurrent challenge in the discussion of... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Spiritual Perspectives on Terrorism: Desire for Destruction
Nina E. Cerfolio masterfully explores the deeper spiritual and psychoanalytic understanding of the origins of human aggressive and destructive instincts which underlie mass shootings and terrorism. ... (more)
Developments in Field Theory for Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts and Counsellors
This book explores developments in psychoanalytic field theory internationally, and their relevance for therapeutic theory and practice. The roots of psychoanalytic field theory can be traced back... (more)
Psychoanalysis Globally Networked: The Origins of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies
Since the very beginning with Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalytic movement has been in the sway of strong group dynamics. There have been hierarchies, tensions between subgroups, splits and exclusions.... (more)
Binocular Vision: An Inquiry into Psychoanalytic Techniques and Field Theory
Binocular Vision in Psychoanalysis explains field theory from a Bionian perspective, while exploring the relationship between art and psychoanalysis.
Elena Molinari starts from Bion’s double... (more)