Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Projective Identification in the Clinical Setting: The Kleinian Interpretation
Projective Identification in the Clinical Setting presents a detailed study of Kleinian literature, setting a background of understanding for the day-to-day analytic atmosphere in which projective... (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)
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)
Insight and Interpretation: The Essential Tools of Psychoanalysis
Insight and interpretation are crucial tools of the psychoanalytic process that have been neglected and misunderstood in recent psychoanalytic literature, where the focus has shifted to the effects... (more)
Oedipus and the Couple
This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors... (more)
Analyst of the Imagination: The Life and Work of Charles Rycroft
Charles Rycroft's lucid jargon-free approach to psychoanalysis inspired a whole generation. Taking inspiration from many fields outside psychoanalysis, including history, literature, linguistics and... (more)
Words That Touch: A Psychoanalyst Learns to Speak
In her attempt to find the words that touch, Danielle Quinodoz gives a succession of illuminating examples to indicate what a psychoanalyst and her patient may experience in the transference... (more)
Time Present and Time Past
This remarkable collection of papers is divided into three sections: clinical issues; psychoanalysis and the life cycle; and underlying theories of practice. The papers span the years 1951 to 2004,... (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)
Unconscious Phantasy
'There is no doubt that "phantasy" or "unconscious phantasy", as it started to be used in the English translation of Freud's work in the late 1920s and 1930s to differentiate it from "fantasy", is... (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)
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)
The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-Evaluation
It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish. However, many changes have occurred in society which have changed the traditional... (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)
A Pattern of Madness
Author of many respected psychoanalytic works including Narcissism: A New Theory, Emotion and Spirit, Making of a Psychotherapist and Spirit of Sanity, the distinguished psychoanalyst Neville... (more)
On the psychotheology of everyday life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig
This text puts Sigmund Freud in dialogue with Franz Rosenzwig in the service of re-imagining ethical and political life. Santner makes an argument for understanding revelation in theraputic terms and... (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)
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)
Imprisoned Pain and Its Transformation
This book is a festschrift for Sydney Klein, an eminent British Psychoanalyst whose work on such topics as children, groups, psychosomatic illness, delinquent perversions, manic states, and autistic... (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)
Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course
A comprehensive user-friendly introductory account of Freudian theory and other major currents in psychoanalytic thought. It also includes biographical material on the major theorists. It helps to... (more)