Psychoanalysis Books
Explorations in Bion's 'O': Everything We Know Nothing About
Wilfred Bion described 'O' as "the unknowable and the unreachable ultimate truth". In this fascinating collection, a range of authors offer their own theoretical, clinical, and artistic approaches to... (more)
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Research Theory and Clinical Practice
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and... (more)
Mutual Growth in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship: Reciprocal Resilience
Mutual Growth in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship: Reciprocal Resilience is an essential, innovative guide for mental health professionals who listen repeatedly to stories of devastation and... (more)
Love the Wild Swan: The selected works of Judith Edwards
Love the Wild Swan is the culmination of thirty years of clinical and teaching experience, undertaken by child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist Judith Edwards. Along with new material,... (more)
Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Plot: A Critical Re-Imaging of the Body in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Plot is a new radical departure in psychoanalytic exposition. An attempt is made to convey, in a language accessible for people from different disciplines,... (more)
The Psychoanalyst and the Child: From the Consultation to Psychoanalytic Treatment
The Psychoanalyst and the Child explores the unique nature of psychoanalytic work with children. This book is based on more than 30 years of practice and reflection within the framework of the Alfred... (more)
The Psychology of Space Exploration: What Freud Might Have Said
This short book grapples with two vast questions: the nature of our minds, and our place in the wider universe. It considers how one mutually influences the development of the other.
The... (more)
The Law of the Mother: An Essay on the Sexual Sinthome
The law of the mother is made up of words charged with pleasure and suffering that leave their mark on us in early childhood. In this groundbreaking book, Genevieve Morel explores whether it is... (more)
Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis: Opening to the Numinous
A mystical experience, no matter what else, is a subjective occurrence in psyche. However, when it appears in the psychoanalytic consulting room, its origin, content, and meaning are unknowable. Yet... (more)
On Practising Therapy at 1.45 A.M.: Adventures of a Clinician
Although Professor Kahr spends most of his week facilitating traditional psychoanalytical sessions with his patients, in his spare time he has had many professional adventures outside the consulting... (more)
Long-Term Psychoanalytic Supervision with Donald Meltzer: The Tragedy of Triumph
Long-Term Psychoanalytic Supervision with Donald Meltzer is a detailed account of a particularly demanding analysis which Donald Meltzer closely supervised over twelve years. This will enable the... (more)
On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives
Psychoanalysis has not examined violence as such since it is a sociological and criminological concept; psychoanalysis is concerned with speech. On Psychoanalysis and Violence brings together noted... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field
Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field offers a comprehensive overview of the many links between the two fields. There have long been connections between... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men: Gender Identity in a Time of Uncertainty
Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in the United States. New perspectives that capture the complexity of men and this rapidly changing... (more)
Celebrity Mad: Why Otherwise Intelligent People Worship Fame
This short book provides a psychoanalytical understanding of fame and celebrity in the early twenty-first century, building upon the bedrock foundations of the Freudian corpus.
The book is... (more)
A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence: The Holocaust, Group Hallucinosis and False Beliefs
A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence makes an analytic examination of the enactment of genocide by Nazi Germany during World War II to explore how mass and state-sponsored... (more)
Cancer and Creativity: A psychoanalytic guide to therapeutic transformation
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Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom
"There is no one school of psychoanalysis from which the author invokes authority. Rather, he compares and contrasts several schools and tries to find the common ground between them. Psychoanalysis... (more)
Madness or Knowing the Unbearable Truth: A Psychoanalytic Journey in Search of Sanity
Madness or Knowing the Unbearable Truth offers readers a narrative of the relationship between a therapist and her patient who desperately wants to discover her past. With no memory and no way of... (more)
Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Emotions and the Present Moment
In this book, Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional experience that arises unconsciously in the here-and-now of the clinical... (more)
Psychoanalysis Online 4: Teleanalytic Practice, Teaching, and Clinical Research
Psychoanalysis Online 4: Teleanalytic Practice, Teaching, and Clinical Research brings a systematic, qualitative research perspective to the question of the effectiveness of teletherapy,... (more)
Ethics and Attachment: How We Make Moral Judgments
Why are we disgusted when an elderly woman is robbed but sympathize with the actions of a Robin Hood? Why do acts of cruelty against a helpless kitten bother us more than does the trampling of ants?... (more)
The Power of Phenomenology: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives
The Power of Phenomenology took form when the two authors realized that a single theme has run through the course of their almost half-century-long collaboration like a red thread-namely, the power... (more)
Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times: Psychoanalytic Political and Philosophical Perspectives
In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study, Roger Kennedy looks at the roots of tolerance and intolerance as well as the role of the stranger and strangeness in provoking basic fears about our... (more)
Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness: Dostoevsky's Characters
The author of Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness: Dostoevsky's Characters draws on Dostoevsky's universe to illuminate psychoanalytic theory and practice. Using Dostoevsky's characters as case... (more)
On Symbolism and Symbolisation: The Work of Freud Durkheim and Mauss
In On Symbolism and Symbolisation: The Work of Freud, Durkheim and Mauss, Eric Smadja returns to the end of the 19th century and explores how the concepts of symbolism and symbolisation have been... (more)
Schelling, Freud and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis: Uncanny Belonging
Schelling, Freud, and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis provides a long-overdue dialogue between two seminal thinkers, Schelling and Freud. Through a sustained reading of the sublime,... (more)
Learning Along the Way: Further Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Learning Along the Way sees Patrick Casement trace the development and application of his earlier key contributions to psychoanalytic technique. These include his observations about internal... (more)
A Practical Psychoanalytic Guide to Reflexive Research: The Reverie Research Method
A Practical Psychoanalytic Guide to Reflexive Research offers an accessible guide to enriched qualitative research. In this novel approach, the researcher's feelings and empathy in relation to... (more)
A Different Path: An Emotional Autobiography
"Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my... (more)