Psychoanalysis Books
Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy
David Armstrong has been a leading figure internationally in the fields of organizational consultancy and group relations for many years. Robert French and Russ Vince have gathered together, for the... (more)
A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis
In this richly nuanced assessment of the various dimensions of mutuality in psychoanalysis, the author shows that the relational approach to psychoanalysis is a powerful guide to issues of technique... (more)
Personal Relations Theory: Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie
Presents a new and comprehensive account of Fairbairn's mature theory. Part One provides a thorough overview of Fairbairn's work and its ramifications for our understanding of creativity and the... (more)
The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma
This book is an edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written by clinicians in the field of trauma. The text offers a psychoanalytic perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic functioning.... (more)
The Psychotic Core
Understanding the psychodynamics of madness is essential to the therapy of most patients, including those who are not diagnosed as mad in the literal sense. This volume draws on Freud, Jung, recent... (more)
Psychic Deadness
Many people seek help because they feel dragged down by a sense of inner deadness that persists in an otherwise full and meaningful life. These individuals somehow remain untouched by their own inner... (more)
EMDR and the Energy Therapies: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), along with methods from the new field of energy psychology, such as the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), enable the rapid processing and... (more)
Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide
A half-century of psychotherapy research has shown that the quality of the therapeutic alliance is the most robust predictor of treatment success. This unique book provides a systematic framework for... (more)
Sex and Sexuality: Winnicottian Perspectives
"Winnicott" and "sex" are two subjects that are rarely associated with one another. Sexuality is not a prominent theme within the work of Winnicott, who preferred to concentrate on the development of... (more)
Dialogues on Sexuality, Gender and Psychoanalysis
‘There are more questions than answers in this book - questions that are important and will continue to intrigue us. This book will be needed to remind us of the different opinions and to help us... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Management: The Transformation
David Gutmann is a highly successful consultant to leading institutions and organisations. In this enriching and challenging dialogue with the Italian journalist Oscar Iarussi, he brings his passion... (more)
Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like Home
This volume addresses the complexities involved in attending to the mental health of refugees. It covers theory and research as well as clinical and field applications, emphasising the... (more)
Key Papers on Countertransference: IJP Education Section
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series brings together the most important psychoanalytic papers in the journal's eighty-year history in a series of accessible monographs.... (more)
Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting
Provides a practical yet sophisticated guide to the management of love and hate as they are experienced by both patient and therapist. (more)
Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children
James M. Herzog's Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children will quickly take its place both as a landmark contribution to developmental psychology and as an enduring classic in the... (more)
Dreams that Turn Over a Page: Paradoxical Dreams in Psychoanalysis
In this work Quinodoz discusses a particular type of dream that comes after a phase in analysis where integration has taken place. Accompanied by anxiety and fear, which seem surprising as the dream... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theories: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology
This substantial and comprehensive addition to the field of psychoanalysis serves several functions. It is a source of both themes and psychoanalytic approaches to psychopathology, an evaluation of... (more)
Disappearing and Reviving: Sandor Ferenczi in the History of Psychoanalysis
This book is an indispensable work for anyone interested in the pioneering psychoanalyst Sandor Ferenczi.
As the supervisor of the recently published correspondence between Freud and Ferenczi,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Film
In full acknowledgment of the important cultural significance of film, this outstanding collection of psychoanalytic essays brings a methodological and theoretical sophistication to an absorbing... (more)
The Delusional Person: Bodily Feelings in Psychosis
In a long and distinguished career Salomon Resnik has established himself as a psychoanalyst of international reputation. The present volume gathers together, for the first time in an English... (more)
Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King
This book is dedicated to Pearl King who is something of an institution in herself within psychoanalysis as well as an important contributor to the development of the institution of psychoanalysis.... (more)
The Ego at the Center of Clinical Technique:
This text emphasises the role of the ego in our understanding of and interventions in the therapeutic setting. It examines the ways the ego defends awareness of unconscious fantasies, how defences... (more)
The Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy
In recent decades, attachment theory has gained widespread interest and acceptance. However the relevance of attachment theory to clinical practice has never been clear. With Search for the Secure... (more)
The Theatre of the Dream
The Theatre of the Dream is a profound study of our dream world and its place in everyday life. The author grounds his ideas in Freud and psychoanalyst authors such as Klein, Bion, Rosenfeld and... (more)
Elaborate Selves: Reflections and Reveries of Christopher Bollas, Michael Eigen, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Samuel and Evelyn Laeuchli, and Marie Coleman Nelson
In this fascinating volume, Anthony Molino interviews some of today's foremost thinkers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Organized around the fertile and controversial concept of multiplicity,... (more)
Kleinians: Psychoanalysis Inside Out
Janet Sayers tells the story of the revolution in psychology pioneered by psychoanalyst Melanie Klein through an account of the personal and public lives of its main architects, their families and... (more)
The Violence of Interpretation: From Pictogram to Statement
This translation of Piera Aulagnier's theory bridges the work of Winnicott and Lacan, putting forward a theory of psychosis based on children's early experiences. It presents his analysis of the... (more)
Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context
Melanie Klein left Germany in 1926 and settled in London where she soon quarrelled with Anna Freud. Klein pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of... (more)
Who is the Dreamer who Dreams the Dream?: A Study of Psychic Presences
The author explores two interrelated psychoanalytic problems - the nature of the unconscious mind, and the meaning and inner structure of human subjectivity. The result is a useful synthesis of... (more)
Adolescence
'Adolescence - when we are no longer children and have not yet reached adulthood - is a time of much disturbance, change and potential for growth. The adolescent is confronted with a body that... (more)