Psychoanalysis Books
Why Psychoanalysis?
Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic of distress being addressed only by an increasing reliance on prescription drugs. (more)
Image Formation and Psychotherapy
A practical introduction to understanding the human capacity for image making. This work also provides guidance for effectively utilising clinical knowledge in the therapeutic situation. (more)
Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital
Adamson aims in this text to put life back into contemporary politics, ethics and aesthetics, to reveal how science and capitalism are manifestations of a broader tendency that is transforming life... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason
How did the language of psychoanalysis become the dominant idiom in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions? Ernest Gellner offers a forceful and complex answer... (more)
The Language of Emotions: Developmental, Psychopathology, and Technique
This book is about affect-its origins, development and uses-and how it is viewed in a clinical setting. The authors track and further develop the recent major changes in the understanding of affect.... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Focus
This much-needed introduction to the major criticisms of psychoanalysis as a theory and as a practice forms part of the 'Counselling and psychotherapy in focus' series and encourages psychoanalysts,... (more)
Integrating Body Self and Psychological Self
David W. Krueger illustrates a novel synthesis of fundamental psychodynamic principles with evolving advances in developmental, self, neuropsychological, and attachment theories. (more)
Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-Type Murder: Murdering Minds
What turns an apparently 'normal' individual into a killer?
The Last Resistance: Concept of Science as Defense against Psychoanaly
Radical and uncompromising, The Last Resistance is a penetrating rediscovery of the essential nature of psychoanalysis. Looking behind the masks of reason adopted by Freuds chief critics, Bowman... (more)
Psychic Trauma: Dynamics, Symptoms, and Treatment
This book offers a clinical study of psychic trauma and provides a framework through which to understand the long term effects of overwhelming life experiences. Ira Brenner draws on two different... (more)
Freud and Faith: Living in the Tension
Bingaman shows how Freuds critique of religion can enrich and strengthen, rather than destroy, the faith of the believer. What emerges from the authors argument is a creative method for living within... (more)
Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology
Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?
So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected... (more)
Dreams and Drama: Psychoanalytic Criticism, Creativity and the Artist
Dreams and Drama charts new
Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity: Now of the Past
Clinical psychoanalysis since Freud has put reconstruction of the patient's history at the forefront of its task but in recent years, this approach has not been so prominent. This book aims to... (more)
Introducing the Freud Wars: A Graphic Guide
A compact guide to the debates surrounding psychoanalysis's most contested figure. Freud is universally recognised as a pivotal figure in modern culture. Yet the man and his work continually attract... (more)
The Third Reich in the Unconscious
This work examines the effects of the Holocaust on second-generation survivors and specifically describes how historical images and trauma are transferred. (more)
Meaning of the Dream in Psychoanalysis
The Freudian claim that dreams are meaningful and that their meanings can be discovered through dream interpretation has in recent times come under harsh attack from both scientific and... (more)
The Joke and its Relation to the Unconscious
Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humor that has... (more)
The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases
This collection offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in "The Case... (more)
Psychology of the Image
Psychology of the Image outlines a theoretical framework bringing together the semiotic concepts developed by Charles Peirce, the sociological insights of Ervin Goffman and the psychoanalytic ideas... (more)
Why Psychoanalysis?
Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis - Freud's so-called "talking cure" - when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth... (more)
Civilisation and Its Discontents
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all... (more)
Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice
This book offers an interdisciplinary view of the development of male and female sexual orientation. The authors integrate research in genetics, psychoendocrinology, psychological development and... (more)
