Psychoanalysis Books
How Does Analysis Cure?
"A landmark book which will exert increasing influence with passing time. . .its success lies in the accomplishment of its stated aims."
- Carl T. Rotenberg, Journal of the American Academy of... (more)
Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies
Aims to provide tools for diagnosing and treating severe cases of personality disorder, including borderline and narcissistic structures. (more)
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?: A Memorial to W.R. Bion
All the contributors to this compilation knew Bion personally and were influenced by his work. They include: Herbert Rosenfeld, Frances Tustin, Andre Green, Donald Meltzer and Hanna... (more)
The Politics of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Freudian and Post-Freudian Theory
This completely revised and updated second edition is a guide to the range and complexity of psychoanalytic theories. Beginning with the work of Freud, it examines the basic assumptions and social... (more)
The Dream Discourse Today
Offers a theoretical and historical overview on dream analysis, and provides a broad range of contemporary ideas.
Psychotic Metaphysics
The threshold that Melanie Klein found to exist between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions is the site of a series of transformations - extremely inducing murder or suicide - in which... (more)
Mental Space
This book is a collection of lessons on psychotic experience. A question of experience of living and communicating rather than of lessons in the traditional sense. His contributions are the... (more)
Theatres of the Mind: Illusion and Truth on the Psychoanalytic Stage
'Theatres of the Mind is one of the finest contributions of contemporary French psychanalysis', writes Otto Kernberg in his foreword to this book. Using the idiom of drama, Joyce McDougall... (more)
Sexuality and Mind: The Role of the Father and Mother in the Psyche
This book examine the role of the Oedipus complex in the psyche and relate it to urgent issues of social and cultural life, historical and current.
"Freud and Female Sexuality" (1975), the first... (more)
The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal
Examines the role of the ego-ideal not only in narcissism but in its connection to psychic life and society. (more)
Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred
'Why in this enlightened day would one choose to entitle a work Perversion, a term that is becoming passé? The great research published in the last decade or two has taught us that aberrant sexual... (more)
Dream Analysis: A Practical Handbook of Psychoanalysis
Written originally as a practical handbook on dream analysis, this book has established itself as a work of lasting value not only to psychoanalysts engaged in therapy, for whom it is primarily... (more)
The Work of Hanna Segal: A Kleinian Approach to Clinical Practice
A selection of Hanna Segal's work from 1950 to 1978. (more)
Psychocinema
Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film, arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivity. It traces the history of the influence of... (more)
Ronald Fairbairn: A Contemporary Introduction
In this concise and introductory book, David Celani examines the work of Ronald Fairbairn, one of the pioneers of Object Relations Theory.
Ronald Fairbairn: A Contemporary Introduction adopts a... (more)
How Philosophy Changed Psychoanalysis: From Naive Realism to Postmodernism
Through this book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Aner Govrin demonstrates how psychoanalysis' engagement with philosophy formed a crucial factor in the evolution of new psychoanalytic theories in... (more)
The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis
The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis.
The papers included in this book span the course of... (more)
Clinical Storytelling, Art and the Problems of Being: The Analyst's Necessary Vertigo
In a series of overlapping clinical essays, sometimes highly personal, sometimes bristling with theory, sometimes employing experimental writing, Jade McGleughlin upends the ways we tell a... (more)
Absolute Freedom: Individuation and Individualization in Second-Late-Modern Societies
Within this book, the fields of analytical psychology and sociology combine to examine and explore current social theory and the concept that the author has termed ‘absolute freedom’.
This work... (more)
Freud's Student Years: A Psychobiography
In Freud’s Student Years, Florian Houssier presents the life experiences and inner conflicts of Sigmund Freud from his eighteenth birthday to his clinical practice, showing how these experiences... (more)
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine all their rivals. From 1890 and through the early years of the 20th... (more)
Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis
Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis reflects on contemporary views on pregnancy, while offering guidance on how to work with women and couples experiencing infertility as well as the... (more)
The Death Drive: A Contemporary Introduction
This comprehensive yet accessible book analyses the clinical and historical experiences that led to the radical, complex and fundamental psychoanalytic concept of the death drive.
In The Death... (more)
The Marquis de Puységur, Artificial Somnambulism, and the Discovery of the Unconscious Mind: Memoirs to Serve the History and Establishment of Animal Magnetism
The Marquis de Puységur, Artificial Somnambulism, and the Discovery of the Unconscious Mind presents the first full English translation of a foundational text in the history of psychodynamic... (more)
Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking: Critical Edition and Readings of Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle stands as a foundational text in psychoanalysis, delving into profound questions about life, death, pleasure and pain. Through a combination of... (more)
Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution
An updated edition of the seminal book that explores why the interest in psychoanalysis in France exploded after 1968 and what it says about culture and therapy.
Among Western countries, France... (more)
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the... (more)
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to... (more)
Kohut's Self Psychology for a Fractured World: New Ways of Understanding the Self and Human Community
Drawing from Kohut's conceptualisation of self, Riker sets out how contemporary America's formulation of persons as autonomous, self-sufficient individuals is deeply injurious to the development of a... (more)
Deconstructing the Feminine: Subjectivities in Transition
Deconstructing the Feminine looks beyond impasses of binary thought and essentialist conceptions of women and the feminine from a contemporary perspective.
With a multi-centred and complex... (more)