Psychoanalysis Books at Karnac Books

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

by Alasdair MacIntyre

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

by Richard P. Bentall

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)

Studies in Hysteria

by Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer

One of the founding texts of psychoanalysis, this work presents accounts of case histories of hysterics and three theoretical essays on hysteria. (more)

The Psychology of Love

by Sigmund Freud

A collection of Freud's major texts on love, human relations and loss, including: "The Taboo on Virginity"; "On Female Sexuality"; "A Child is Being Beaten"; "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality"... (more)

Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting

Edited by Lynne Layton, Susan Gutwill

Do political concerns belong in psychodynamic treatment? How do class and politics shape the unconscious? The effects of an increasingly polarized, insecure and threatening world mean that the... (more)

Psychoanalytic Knowledge

Edited by Man Cheung Chung, Colin Feltham

Psychoanalytic Knowledge presents cutting edge thinking on some fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis by important international scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It explores... (more)

Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst

by Stanley J. Coen

To help patients with their affect intolerance, therapists need to tolerate, contain and manage their own feelings. This text shows how to work with more difficult patients in psychotherapy and... (more)

Working With Eating Disorders: A Psychoanalytic Approach

by Geraldine Shipton

Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are increasingly prevalent in today's society and of great concern to a wide range of health-related professionals, including counsellors and... (more)

Harvesting Free Association

by Marita Torsti-Hagman

This book is about the fundamentals of free association. Working from a large amount of clinical material, it enables us to see how the problems of the symbolization process are created in the minds... (more)

On the Freud watch: public memoirs:

by Paul Roazen

"On the Freud Watch: Public Memoirs" opens and closes with autobiographical pieces, but the book as a whole reflects an intensely personal account of how Roazen became known as a "controversial"... (more)

Confidentiality: Ethical Perspectives and Clinical Dilemmas

Edited by Charles Levin, Mary Kay O'Neil

Linking general issues of privacy to the intimate details of psychotherapeutic encounter, this text should serve as a basic guide to a wide range of professionals, including lawyers, social... (more)

The Future of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Edited by Robert A. King

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy faces multiple challenges in the new millennium. How can it organize, teach and offer therapy in ways that are relevant to the diverse complex and social and cultural... (more)

Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia

by Esther Sanchez-Pardo

A comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive... (more)

Pluralism and Unity? Methods of Research in Psychoanalysis

Edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Jorge Canestri

A major challenge for the future of psychoanalysis as a science and as a profession, both in theory and in practice, is the ongoing development of conceptual, clinical and empirical research. This... (more)

We are, Julia Kristeva writes, strangers to ourselves; and indeed much of contemporary theory, whether psychoanalytic, historical, social, or critical, describes the human condition as one of... (more)

Windows

by Jean-Bertrand Pontalis

At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's own Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers an... (more)

Intimate Revolt: Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis

by Julia Kristeva

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The Uncanny

by Sigmund Freud

Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The major pieces collected here explore the vivid but seemingly trivial childhood memories that often screen far more... (more)

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

by Sigmund Freud

New Introductory Lectures (1932) and An Outline of Psychoanalysis (1938).

No discovery has done more to shape modernity than Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the part it plays in determining... (more)

Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings

by Sigmund Freud

On the Introduction of Narcissism/Remembering, Repeating and Working Through/Beyond the Pleasure Principle/The Ego and the Id/Inhibition, Symptom and Fear

In Freud’s view we are driven by the... (more)