Psychoanalysis Books
Shame and Humiliation: A Dialogue between Psychoanalytic and Systemic Approaches
Shame and Humiliation aims at exploring a sub-set of universal emotions that are usually labelled as "negative" because of the sense of unease that they generate when we experience them and the... (more)
On Freud's "The Unconscious"
If there ever was one word that could represent the essence of Freud’s work, that word would be ‘unconscious’. Indeed, Freud himself regarded his 1915 paper ‘The Unconscious’ as central to clarifying... (more)
Betrayal: Developmental, Literary, and Clinical Realms
Betrayal underlies all psychic trauma, whether sexual abuse or profound neglect, violence or treachery, extramarital affair or embezzlement. When we betray others, we violate their confidence in us.... (more)
Psychoanalytic Filiations: Mapping the Psychoanalytic Movement
This book presents a collection of fifteen essays on the early history of psychoanalysis, focusing on the network of psychoanalytic “filiations” ("who analysed whom") and the context of discovery of... (more)
Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown
In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests... (more)
The Winnicott Tradition: Lines of Development—Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades
This volume in a book series on psychoanalytic leaders, provides a geographically global sampler of writing stemming from Winnicott’s complex and paradoxical thinking.
In the first section, on... (more)
The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique
What happens when the outside world enters the psychoanalytic space? In The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique, Aisha Abbasi draws on clinical material to describe... (more)
What is Madness?
What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad? In this landmark work Darian Leader undermines... (more)
Siblings: Envy and Rivalry, Coexistence and Concern
This book consists of selected texts presented at the EFPP Conference in Cracow, Poland, in October 2011. It is an attempt at finding the place of sibling relationships in psychoanalytic theory and... (more)
Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion's Continuing Legacy
Wilfred Bion remains the most cited author in psychoanalytic literature after Sigmund Freud. His formulation of alpha function, waking dream thoughts, his theory of thinking and of the... (more)
China on the Mind
Several thousand years ago Indo-European culture diverged into two ways of thinking; one went West, the other East. Tracing their differences, Christopher Bollas examines how these mentalities are... (more)
Sandor Ferenczi - Ernest Jones: Letters 1911-1933
The Ferenczi-Jones correspondence presented here is an important document of the early history of psychoanalysis. It spans more than two decades and addresses many of the relevant issues of the... (more)
How Does Analysis Cure?
The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of self-psychology, which sets aside the Freudian explanations for behavior and... (more)
The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience
Whereas Freud himself viewed conscience as one of the functions of the superego, in The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience, Carveth argues that superego and... (more)
A Spirit that Impels: Play, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis
This volume brings together some of the papers presented by leading scholars, artists and psychoanalysts at an annual Creativity Seminar organised by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center.... (more)
Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma: Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalytic Treatment, and the Dynamics of Forgiveness
The book combines for the first time attachment theory, regulation attachment therapy, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma, showing how the clinical therapeutic process of “going beyond... (more)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man: Psychoanalysis and Masculinity
Images and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. In this book, Donald Moss addresses the never-ending effort of men-regardless of sexual orientation-to shape themselves in relation... (more)
Death and Identity: Being and the Psycho-Sexual Drama
Michel de M’Uzan has derived several innovative notions from his clinical experience that are relevant not only for the psychoanalyst’s status of identity, which is sometimes dramatically shaken by... (more)
The Essential Sudhir Kakar
This volume includes some of the path-breaking essays by well-known psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar on themes ranging from Hindu childhood, modern mysticism, and India's healing traditions to male-female... (more)
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on clinical work with... (more)
The New Klein-Lacan Dialogues
This book provides a timely exploration and comparison of key concepts in the theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, two thinkers and clinicians whose influence over the development of... (more)
The Maternal Lineage: Identification, Desire, and Transgenerational Issues
Why do women want to have children? How does one 'learn' to be a mother? Does having babies have anything to do with sex? At a time when mothers are bombarded by prescriptive and contradicting... (more)
Enabling and Inspiring: A Tribute to Martha Harris
Martha Harris (1919-1987) was one of the most influential and also one of the most loved psychoanalysts of the generation that trained with Melanie Klein. She also worked with Wilfred Bion, and wrote... (more)
On Freud's "Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety"
Besides constituting a fundamental milestone in contemporary Western thought, Sigmund Freud’s monumental corpus of work laid the theoretical–technical foundations on which psychoanalysts based the... (more)
The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: Connected-up Instantaneous Culture and the Self
Over the past decade, the very nature of the way we relate to each other has been utterly transformed by online social networking and the mobile technologies that enable unfettered access to it. Our... (more)
Seduction and Desire: The Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexuality Since Freud
Modern society has introduced many new relationships and family forms and the pluralisation of sexual lifestyles in the hundred years since Freud. This book provides a systematic account of the... (more)
Bothered By Alligators
Milner's final text, Bothered by Alligators, came about when, in her nineties, she unexpectedly came across a diary she had kept during the early years of her son's life, recording his conversations... (more)
The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Work in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach... (more)
Moments of Uncertainty in Therapeutic Practice: Interpreting within the Matrix of Projective Identification, Countertransference, and Enactment
One of therapy's greatest challenges is the moment of transference, when a patient unconsciously transfers emotion or desire to a new and present object - in some cases the therapist. During the... (more)