Psychoanalysis Books
The Oedipus Complex: Focus of the Psychoanalysis-Anthropology Dispute
This book examines the contentious relationship between psychoanalysis and anthropology as it has played out in disputes surrounding the Oedipus complex. Here, Eric Smadja explores the complicated... (more)
Bion and Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Reading a Memoir of the Future
This book examines the importance and continued relevance of A Memoir of the Future in understanding and applying Bion's work to contemporary psychoanalysis. Bion continued to innovate throughout his... (more)
Psychoanalytic Studies on Dysphoria: The False Accord in the Divine Symphony
Psychoanalytic Studies on Dysphoria: The False Accord in the Divine Symphony depicts the profound dysphoria afflicting certain individuals, and includes the author's own personal experience of this... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film brings together a group of psychoanalysts to explore, through film, the new forms of communication, mainly the internet, that... (more)
Jealousy: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Jealousy is a human feeling experienced by everyone in varying intensities, at different times and phases of growth. Frequently confused, jealousy and envy are often intertwined. Even within the... (more)
Belief after Freud
Belief after Freud confronts the psychoanalytic experience and the experience of faith. A purified vision of faith, so many times disfigured by infantile or neurotic dynamics, can emerge through the... (more)
Exploring the Life of the Soul: Philosophical Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology
In this book, John Hanwell Riker develops and expands the conceptual framework of self psychology in order to offer contemporary readers a naturalistic ground for adopting an ethical way of being in... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893-1913: Histories and Historiography
Historians and biographers of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychology, medicine and culture, even Wikipedia, believe Ernest Jones discovered Freud in 1904 and had become the first English-speaking... (more)
On Freud's 'The Question of Lay Analysis'
The questions of what psychoanalysis is, and does, and who can and should practice it, remains key within the modern profession. Has the invaluable material packed into Freud's "The Question of Lay... (more)
Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative
André Green was a leading voice in French psychoanalysis, a brilliant thinker and an innovative contributor to the psychoanalytic field. His writings sit at the crossroads of contemporary... (more)
A Word to the Wise: Don Quixote Returns to Fight Perversion
After giving us a fascinating reading of Cervantes’ classic novel in Don Quixote: Fighting Melancholia, Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière co-author a second work, to reflect on the hero’s... (more)
Difficult Identities: Treating the Psychotic Child
Through clinical illustrations and theoretical considerations, Difficult Identities discusses the centrality of transference in helping young patients overcome the difficulties in constructing their... (more)
The Art of Personality in Literature and Psychoanalysis
The Art of Personality is a diverse selection of talks and papers on psychoanalysis and literature given by the author over the past ten years. They elaborate on the goal expressed by Milton as... (more)
Minding the Markets: An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability
The financial crisis of 2008 clarified what economic theories have long ignored. Emotions really matter. David Tuckett argues that economists' explanations for what happened in the Financial Crisis... (more)
Apologia Pro Vita Mea: An Intellectual Odyssey
This book is a narrative in dialogue form in which the author, now an octogenarian who is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and a PhD in philosophy, describes his intellectual evolution from a published... (more)
Everything is Permitted, Restrictions Still Apply: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Social Dislocation, Narcissism and Post Truth
In a highly subjectivist contemporary culture, in which the power of a compelling emotional narrative is privileged over claims to objective knowledge, there is a tendency to take defensive refuge in... (more)
Freud: An Intellectual Biography
The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into... (more)
The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis: Conflicts Dilemmas and the Future of the Profession
The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis is a wide-ranging exploration and examination of the organizational conflicts and dilemmas that have troubled psychoanalysis since its inception. Kenneth... (more)
The History of Countertransference: From Freud to the British Object Relations School
The constant and polymorphous development of the field of psychoanalysis since its inception has led to the evolution of a wide variety of psychoanalytic ‘schools’. In seeking to find common ground... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Testimony: Unwanted Memories of Social Trauma
Psychoanalytic work with socially traumatised patients is an increasingly popular vocation, but remains extremely demanding and little covered in the literature. In Psychoanalysis and Holocaust... (more)
The Discovery of the Self: A Study in Psychological Cure
Elizabeth Severn, known as R.N. in Sandor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary, was Ferenczi's analysand for eight years, the patient with whom he conducted his controversial experiment in mutual analysis, and... (more)
The Digital Age on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Practice and New Media
The Digital Age is on the couch. Working today, it is essential that clinicians understand the world we live in. The transition from an industrial economy to an information economy impacts not just... (more)
Nonlinear Psychoanalysis: Notes from Forty Years of Chaos and Complexity Theory
Nonlinear concepts from chaos theory, complexity studies, and fractal geometry have transformed the way we think about the mind. Nonlinear Psychoanalysis shows how nonlinear dynamics can be... (more)
What Would Freud Do?: How the Greatest Psychotherapists Would Solve Your Everyday Problems
Ever wondered what Wilfred Bion would have to say about your horrible boss's behaviour? Or how Carl Jung would feel about your mid-life crisis red Ferrari? Ever wondered if Eric Berne might have the... (more)
How to Think Like Sigmund Freud
The work of Sigmund Freud, one of the most important thinkers of the past two hundred years, redefined the fields of neurology and psychotherapy and the way we view the human mind. Most strands of... (more)
The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, the Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life
Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society: The Future of an Illusion andCivilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely... (more)
Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide
Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide demonstrates that the concept of the unconscious is profoundly relevant for understanding the mind, psychic pain and... (more)
Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis: A Model for Theory and Practice
In this book, Kirshner explains and illustrates the concept of intersubjectivity and its application to psychoanalysis. By drawing on findings from neuroscience, infant research, cognitive... (more)
Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Mortal Gifts
Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter considers psychoanalysis from a fresh perspective-the therapist's mortality, in at least two senses of the word: the therapist can die, and the... (more)
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Reacting to Unexpected Developments
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis looks at the intersection of two types of psychoanalysis that challenge the classic model; child analysis, and field theory.
Children... (more)