Psychoanalysis Books
Michael Balint and His World: The Budapest Years
This fascinating collection explores the life of renowned psychoanalyst Michael Balint in his native Budapest. With a Balint revival in mind, Michael Balint and His World: The Budapest Years brings... (more)
Developmental Ruptures: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown and Defensive Solutions
This book questions the diagnostic categories applied to adolescents from a developmental viewpoint putting forth an alternative perspective for assessment that considers prognostic and risk... (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)
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker James Grotstein, A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often complex work of W. R. Bion.
This... (more)
Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text
Twenty-nine years since the first edition was released, Frank Summers has renewed his lucid and thorough clarification of the various object relations theories to demonstrate their evolution and... (more)
Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis has not had a comfortable history in relation to "race" and racism, despite its origins in the Jewish lives of Freud and its other first-generation progenitors and the insistent... (more)
The Clinical Paradigms of Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion: Comparisons and Dialogues
This book introduces the psychoanalytic principles of both Winnicott and Bion, to compare the ways in which their concepts evolved, and to show how their different approaches contribute to... (more)
Increate Light
As with all Eric Rhode’s work, we are taken on a fast-moving journey where previous travellers have left few footprints. These are faint, and soon dissolve. Accompanying us are passions, intellectual... (more)
Besides Family: Extending the Orbit of Psychic Development
With contributions from Salman Akhtar, Patricia Boguski, Ann Eichen, April Fallon, Theodore Fallon, Jr., Rama Rao Gogineni, Mark Moore, Sonja Ware.
Collectively authored by psychoanalytic... (more)
Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis
Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the... (more)
How the Mind Works: Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
There is a great deal of confusion about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, even among practitioners of these methods. One reason is the sheer volume of psychoanalytic psychotherapies... (more)
Selected Papers of Salman Akhtar
Salman Akhtar is a Professor of Psychiatry, a Training and Supervising Analyst, a member of numerous editorial boards, winner of many awards, including the highly prestigious Sigourney Award, a... (more)
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work
Longlisted for the 2022 CMI Management Book of the Year Award
Who do you bring with you to work?
Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow with our pyjamas when we... (more)
Herbert Rosenfeld: A Contemporary Introduction
This bold and insightful book is the first to present the full work of highly influential British analyst, Herbert Rosenfeld.
This Contemporary Introduction covers all of Rosenfeld’s significant... (more)
The Unconscious Body Image
The Unconscious Body Image espouses a completely original view of the links between physical and psychic development, providing fresh insight into our understanding of psychosomatic symptoms and... (more)
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter is a pioneering reflection on the psychology of racism and its impact on us all. With the intimacy of personal experience and depth of... (more)
Psyche, Culture, World: Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy
Across the array of topics explored in this comprehensive volume, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues for a fundamental return to the question and meaning of existence. Drawing on the... (more)
Affect and Emotion: A Brief Psychoanalytic Tour
Why are emotions so vital to living our best life? How do psychoanalytic ideas shed light on this? What are the key things we really need to know about feelings? What is the difference between... (more)
Freud/Lynch: Behind the Curtain
The films of David Lynch are sometimes said to be unintelligible. They confront us with strange dreamscapes populated with bizarre characters, obscure symbols and an infuriating lack of narrative... (more)
The Evil Imagination: Understanding and Resisting Destructive Forces
Roger Kennedy has written a masterful investigation into the concept of evil. He begins with a general view of the subject before moving into more detailed analysis. First is a review of the science... (more)
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at José Bleger’s Classic Work
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited provides an in-depth discussion of José Bleger’s work, broadening current knowledge and focusing on his significant contribution to psychoanalytic... (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)
Sandor Ferenczi: A Contemporary Introduction
This book aims to present an up-to-date introduction and critical study of one of the most important psychoanalysts of all times, Sandor Ferenczi.
The book presents Ferenczi as a person; his... (more)
The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives
In The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives, Aileen Alleyne explores the unheeded dimensions of individual and collective identity trauma. She expands on her striking... (more)
The Authority of Tenderness: Dignity and the True Self in Psychoanalysis
This insightful and beautifully written work explores non-linear processes of recovery of the loss of Self. The inherent healing power of hard-earned, wholehearted self-acceptance is conceived... (more)
Reading Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: From Pleasure to the Object
Sigmund Freud's 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an unknown text. In this book Freud's 1905 theory of sexuality... (more)
When the Body Speaks: A British-Italian Dialogue
This book is based on the work done by a group of British and Italian psychoanalysts who have been meeting twice yearly since 2003 to study clinically the relationship between the mind and the body... (more)
Autonomy, Relatedness and Oedipus: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Autonomy, Relatedness, and Oedipus is an innovative and inspiring work from Thijs de Wolf that takes a critical look at the field of psychoanalysis. He takes the view that psychoanalysis is about... (more)
The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
'Whiteness' is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications... (more)
Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer: Volume 3: The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst
This new selection from the papers of Donald Meltzer spans his working life and serves as an introduction to all his key concepts, such as: aesthetic conflict, the claustrum, adhesive identification,... (more)