Psychoanalysis Books
Arrogance: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Arrogance as a specific constellation of affect, fantasy, and behavior has received little attention in psychoanalysis. This is striking in light of the enormous amount of literature accumulated on... (more)
The Psychology of Political Extremism: What Sigmund Freud would have thought about Islamic State
Islamic State is primarily seen through a political lens; the psychological motivation of such groups is poorly understood. But we need to ask the question; do the inner disquiets of Islam make more... (more)
Freud's Russia: National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis
Freud's lifelong involvement with the Russian national character and culture is examined in James Rice's imaginative combination of history, literary analysis, and psychoanalysis. Freud's Russia... (more)
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in Cognitive Multi-Agent Systems
Human cognitive processes and defense mechanisms, as described in psychoanalysis, bring about new notions and paradigms for artificial intelligence systems. One key reason is that the human cognitive... (more)
Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis: Its Function and Structure in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory
Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis explores the idea of `the frame' at a time when this concept is undergoing both systematic revival and widespread transformation. It has always been... (more)
Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis
'This volume reflects the passion, creativity and commitment of Antonino Ferro and his colleagues from Pavia as they strive to forge a psychoanalysis built upon a creative, intersubjective dialogue... (more)
Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining terms and building bridges
This book provides a clear introduction to the main contemporary psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives. Psychoanalysis is often thought of as an obscure and outdated method, and yet, those familiar... (more)
The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi: His Historical and Contemporary Importance in Psychoanalysis
The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi provides a concise yet thorough overview of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi. It seeks to help make his thought and work better known, as a controversial... (more)
Melanie Klein: The Basics
Melanie Klein: The Basics provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and work of Melanie Klein, whose discoveries advanced those of Freud and other analysts, deepening our insight... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting looks at the role stepparents can play in the psychic development of children. Stepparenting requires enormous... (more)
Psychoanalytic Method in Motion: Controversies and evolution in clinical theory and practice
Psychoanalytic Method in Motion identifies and examines varied controversies about how psychoanalysts believe treatment should best be conducted. Irrespective of their particular school of thought,... (more)
Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis
Clinical psychoanalysis serves as our best laboratory for exploring the riddle of what it is to be a person, and how a person is at once singularly unique while always a piece of the interpersonal... (more)
Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice
Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice provides contemporary theoretical and clinical links between Relational Psychoanalysis, attachment theory,... (more)
The Challenge of Being Human
Freud wrote that the greatest problem facing humanity is its destructive urge. There is no one factor that solves the issue. The Challenge of Being Human explores tendencies that make us up and... (more)
Freud - The Key Ideas: From psychoanalysis and sex to dreams, the unconscious and more
Reading the complete works of Sigmund Freud would take more time than most of us have to spare. Freud - the Key Ideas condenses all the information you need about the life and work of the great man... (more)
Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the Movies
Consisting of contributions from psychoanalysts and therapists, as well as authors in such fields as literature and cinema studies, Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients explores how therapy and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide
Building on the enormous popularity of her two previous texts on diagnosis and case formulation, this important work from Nancy McWilliams completes the trilogy by addressing in detail the art of... (more)
Psychoanalysis at the Limit: Epistemology, Mind, and the Question of Science
Psychoanalysis has long been charged as being a pseudoscience. This timely book explores and reexamines the nature of psychoanalysis within contemporary debates about science, epistemology,... (more)
Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis Through Philosophy
This book celebrates and philosophically critiques Freud's most important contribution to understanding humanity: that psychic reality is governed by the unconscious mind. The contributors focus on... (more)
The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper
The selected papers of one of the leading intellectual figures in psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper M.D., record his unique ability to reflect upon the process of change and help us understand not... (more)
Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery: The Genesis of Suffering and the Role of Psychoanalysis
This captivating book explores Antonino Ferro's conception of the way the mind works, his interpretation of the analytic understanding of psychopathology, his reconceptualization of the therapeutic... (more)
Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-sex Couples and Families
What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families address this question by... (more)
Culture, Subject, Psyche: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
A collection of in-depth interviews and essays which update the prevailing conceptions of psychoanalysis within anthropology, exploring distinctive psychoanalytic contributions and ethnographic... (more)
Sexy Bodies: Strange Carnalities of Feminism
This text investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi-, transracial, and even hetero-. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also... (more)
Guilt: Revenge, Remorse and Responsibility After Freud
Guilt is an original, closely argued examination of the opposition between guilty man and tragic man. Starting from the scientific and speculative writings of Freud and the major pioneers of... (more)
Between Couch and Piano: Psychoanalysis, Music, Art and Neuroscience
Between Couch and Piano links well-established psychoanalytic ideas with historical and neurological theory to help us begin to understand from a psychoanalytic perspective some of the reasons behind... (more)
For and Against Psychoanalysis: Second Edition
For and Against Psychoanalysis provides an accessible introduction and critical guide to the current standing of psychoanalysis. It is essential reading for students of psychoanalysis, counselling,... (more)
The Danger of Change: The Kleinian Approach with Patients Who Experience Progress as Trauma
Confusing clinical standoffs, loyalty to self-destruction and abrupt terminations are challenging and under-examined problems for the modern psychoanalytic practitioner. "The Danger of Change" is a... (more)
The unconscious a conceptual analysis
This text distinguishes between the two uses of the Freudian term "unconscious": the descriptive, where Freud is seen as offering a non- causal description of psychological phenomena; and the... (more)
Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature
This text explains what madness is, showing that it can be understood in psychological terms, and that by studying it we can learn important insights about the normal mind. 'Bentall demystifies... (more)