Psychoanalysis Books
Management of Countertransference with Borderline Patients
This is an open discussion of the emotional reactions that clinicians experience when treating borderline patients. The book offers a systematic approach to managing countertransference that... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Independent Tradition
This book is a collection of papers to which seven senior members of the British Association of Psychotherapists have contributed. Each essay discusses a problem or impasse the author has encountered... (more)
The Interpretation of Dreams (original 1899 version)
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud's original argument, unmodified by... (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)
The Mystery of Things
A philosophical reflection on the paradox of the psychoanalytical process, which objectifies psychic life through the deep subjectivity of its two engaged participants - a mysterious encounter which... (more)
Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse
This seminal work on the neglected topic of affect is structured in three parts: affect in psychoanalytic literature, clinical practice of psychoanalysis and theoretical study, and affect,language... (more)
On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind
Providing guidance on how the analyst can encourage the patient to communicate the quality of their often intolerably painful states of mind, this text looks at how he/she can interpret these states,... (more)
The Chains of Eros: The Sexual in Psychoanalysis
André Green, a leading figure in contemporary psychoanalytic theory, deplores the absence of sexuality and the erotic from current psychoanalytic theory and practice. Instead, he demonstrates how... (more)
Cruelty, Violence and Murder
The line that separates those who kill from those who only think about it, and from those who injure themselves, is often thinner than we imagine. Convicted murderers serving life-sentences in... (more)
Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide
This volume comprises a collection of case studies from analysts who have treated patients who have committed serious acts of violence, either against others or themselves. (more)
Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
This volume collates Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last fifteen years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. Topics include how the notions of objectivity and... (more)
The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness: Second Edition
408 pages. A detailed account of one of the few systematic researches into the very special nature of the doctor/patient relationship. An important book, in that it provided an entirely new look at... (more)
Internal Objects Revisited
The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of transference... (more)
The Modern Freudians: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique
In this comprehensive volume, prominent clinicians provide insights into the therapeutic relationship, the difficult patient, modes of therapeutic action, and other topics of concern to all... (more)
Why Did Freud Reject God? A Psychodynamic Interpretation
A fascinating journey into Freud's past to examine the roots of his atheism, providing a psychodynamic interpretation of his rejection of God. (more)
The Psychoanalytic Mystic
Advocating a return to the spiritual in psychoanalysis, the author backs up this plea with the work of Bion, Milner and Winnicott. His aim is to celebrate and explore the meaning of mystical... (more)
Loss: Attachment and Loss: Volume 3
In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the... (more)
Sexual Deviation
Distinguished practitioners and academic experts discuss the most recent advances on the area of sexual deviation in their fields from a psychiatric, legal, psychotherapeutic and behaviour therapy... (more)
Freud's Models of the Mind: An Introduction
The authors succeed in putting Freud's models of the mind into a historical and developmental framework and show the complexity of his thinking on the relationship between the conscious and... (more)
Circular Reflections: Selected papers of Malcolm Pines.
In this selection of papers, Malcolm Pines explores many different aspects of psychoanalysis and group analysis. Section One contains four papers which highlight mirroring, child development, and... (more)
Emotional Vertigo: Between Anxiety and Pleasure
Unravels the unconscious significance of the feelings of vertigo which sometimes arise in situations where there is no immediate danger of falling. The author traces the origins of these attacks to... (more)
Splitting: A Case of Female Masculinity
A detailed case-study of a woman, intelligent and apparantly sane, who was nevertheless convinced that she possessed - internally - a set of fully functioning male organs. The account of the womans... (more)
The Psycho-Analysis of Children
This book demonstrates Klein's work in devising the techniques of child analysis. She made treatment of young children possible and threw light on psychological development in childhood and on the... (more)
All My Sins Remembered: Another Part of a Life & The Other Side of Genius: Family Letters
All My Sins Remembered is the continuation of Wilfred Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end. Although it is by no means a full account of his thirty years following the First World War - and he... (more)
Extending Horizons: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents and Families
Extending Horizons presents a wide-ranging collection of papers by leading practitioners in the field of analytic psychotherapy with children and young people, surveying recent developments in... (more)
Two Papers: 'The Grid' and 'Caesura'
The Grid, an instrument devised by Bion to help the analyst record and elaborate observations arising from the analytic encounter, demonstrates how mathematics can be applied to locate the... (more)