Psychoanalysis Books
Treatment of Severe Personality Disorders: Resolution of Aggression and Recovery of Eroticism
In Treatment of Severe Personality Disorders: Resolution of Aggression and Recovery of Eroticism, the influential psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Otto Kernberg presents an integrated update of the... (more)
The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
Today Sigmund Freud's legacy seems as hotly contested as ever. He continues to attract fanaticism of one kind or another. If Freud might be disappointed at the failure of his successors to confirm... (more)
Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis: Essays in History and Method
In Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis, John Gedo's mastery of Freudian theory and broad historical consciousness subserve a new goal: an understanding of "dissidence" in psychoanalysis. Gedo... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong: The Absent the Present and the Reinvented (Routledge Studies in Asian Behavioural Sciences)
How is it possible that a phenomenon like psychoanalysis, which has dominated the cultural and intellectual life of the last century in Europe, North and South America, has seemingly had little-to-no... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the GlObal
Psychoanalysis and the GlObal is about the hole at the heart of the "glObal," meaning the instability and indecipherability that lies at the hub of globalization. The contributors use psychoanalysis... (more)
Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes
In Cold War Freud, Dagmar Herzog uncovers the astonishing array of concepts of human selfhood which circulated across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. Against the backdrop of Nazism and... (more)
Forces of Destiny: Psychoanalysis and Human Idiom
Christopher Bollas is one of the most expressive and eloquent exponents of the ideas, meanings and experience of psychoanalysis currently writing. He has a real gift for taking the reader into the... (more)
The Critique of Regression: A Psychoanalytic Model of Irreversible Lifespan Development
The Critique of Regression presents the most in-depth critique of regression available in the psychoanalytic literature, whilst presenting the first psychoanalytic theory of irreversible lifespan... (more)
The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal
The theory of unformulated experience is an interpersonal/relational conception of unconscious process. The idea is that unconscious content is not fully formed, merely awaiting discovery, but is... (more)
The Essential Writings of Sabina Spielrein: Pioneer of Psychoanalysis
Sabina Spielrein's writings explore the burning topics in the early days of psychoanalysis while providing insight into the culture of the time and her own personal struggles. After a comprehensive... (more)
Freud/Tiffany: Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the 'Best Possible School'
With over 100 archival photographs and nine original, wide-ranging essays, Freud/Tiffany brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education. Out of the cultural and political... (more)
Silent Virtues: Patience, Curiosity, Privacy, Intimacy, Humility, and Dignity
Silent Virtues addresses six areas of mental functioning, namely, patience, curiosity, privacy, intimacy, humility, and dignity. Each of the areas is elucidated with the help of clinical, literary,... (more)
Methods of Research into the Unconscious: Applying Psychoanalytic Ideas to Social Science
The Psychoanalytic Unconscious is a slippery set of phenomena to pin down. There is not an accepted standard form of research, outside of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis. In this book a... (more)
Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis
Patients in psychoanalytic treatment present with a variety of problems that reflect contemporary cultural issues and values. Clinical Evolutions of the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis... (more)
Cinematic Reflections on The Legacy of the Holocaust: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
An international group of psychoanalysts and film scholars address the enduring emotional legacy of the Holocaust in Cinematic Reflections on the Legacy of the Holocaust: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.... (more)
Goethe's Path to Creativity: A Psycho-Biography of the Eminent Politician, Scientist and Poet
Goethe's Path to Creativity provides a comprehensive psycho-biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a giant of modern German and European literary, political, and scientific history. The book brings... (more)
Male Alienation at the Crossroads of Identity, Culture and Cyberspace
I'm broken. When a boy or man says this, he is expressing deep alienation from himself and the world. Something's wrong, and he usually cannot begin to explain why. What brings boys and men into... (more)
Sex, Drugs, and Creativity: Searching for Magic in a Disenchanted World
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Understanding Psychosis: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Do psychotic disorders make sense? Are psychotic symptoms amenable to interpretation? Psychoanalytic clinicians and scholars have outlined theoretical and therapeutic pathways to psychotic illnesses.... (more)
Growing Up?: A Journey with Laughter
This book, by a well established author previously writing in a quite different genre, that of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and counselling, is written for an entirely different readership. Patrick... (more)
Progress in Psychoanalysis: Envisioning the Future of the Profession
Is psychoanalysis in decline? Has its understanding of the human condition been marginalized? Have its clinical methods been eclipsed by more short-term, problem-oriented approaches? Is... (more)
Process Facilitation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Social Work
Process Facilitation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Social Work elaborates a differential theory of therapeutic engagement with full reference not only to psychoanalysis and to psychotherapy... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self: A Radical Interdisciplinary Approach
This book draws psychoanalysis out of unsubstantiated, hermeneutic speculation and into the science and philosophy of the Self. Mark Leffert offers a survey of where we as human beings come from,... (more)
De-Idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique From Within
Self-examination and self-critique: for psychoanalytic patients, this is the conduit to growth. Yet within the field, psychoanalysts haven’t sufficiently utilized their own methodology or subjected... (more)
Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique
Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique invites relational theorists to contemplate the influence, overlaps, and relationship between relational theory and other perspectives. The... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain
The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain offers a guide to understanding and working with a range of everyday causes of suffering from a psychoanalytic perspective. The... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Autistic Features in Adults: Clinical Intervention Methods and Technique
Psychoanalytic Work with Autistic Features in Adults deals with the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties of working with patients with autistic residuals, formed in early life experiences that... (more)
Counterdreamers: Analysts Reading Themselves
‘Counterdreaming’ is Donald Meltzer’s term for the psychoanalytic reverie that arises from the countertransference during the session, in response to the analysand’s own dreams and phantasies. He... (more)
Psy-Complex in Question: Critical Review in Psychology Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
Psy-Complex in Question traces a series of key debates in and against the psy-complex through critical reviews of twenty-five key texts over the last twenty-five years, with an emphasis on recent... (more)
Aesthetic Conflict and its Clinical Relevance
Donald Meltzer coined the term ‘aesthetic conflict’ to describe the emotional complexities of the ‘apprehension of beauty’. It had its roots in art, literature, infant observation, and above all, in... (more)