Psychoanalysis Books
A Beholder's Share: Essays on Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Imagination
A Beholder's Share is a comprehensive guide to Dodi Goldman's unique psychoanalytic sensibility. At heart, this book demonstrates how a sense of reality is evoked in the unpredictable space between... (more)
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must... (more)
A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice
Often overlooked because he is so easy to mock, ridicule, or just plain misunderstand, Freud introduced many techniques for clinical practice that are still widely employed today. Yet surprisingly,... (more)
Regret: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Missed opportunities, unfulfilled dreams, and broken promises are the stuff of everyday life and so is regret, the emotion that accompanies them. Unlike remorse which is consequent upon the... (more)
Systematic Desensitisation for Panic and Phobia: An Introduction for Health Professionals
Panic disorder and phobia are difficulties that are commonly encountered in our consulting rooms. There is an ongoing debate concerning the lack of provision within the NHS to help those with mental... (more)
Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting: Realisational Perspectives
Drawing from original source material, contemporary scholarship, and Wilfred Bion's psychoanalytic writings, Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting introduces the Zen notion of... (more)
Understanding Classical Psychoanalysis: Freudian Concepts in Contemporary Practice
Understanding Classical Psychoanalysis gives a clear overview of the key tenets of classical Freudian psychoanalysis, and offers a guide to how these might be best understood and applied to... (more)
Positive Psychoanalysis: Meaning, Aesthetics and Subjective Well-Being
Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have, in one way or another, focused on the amelioration of the negative. This has only done half the job; the other half being to actively bring positive experience... (more)
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Mind, Body, and the Question of Time
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis sets out to give a scientific consistency to the question of time and find out how time determines brain functioning. Neurological investigations into dreams... (more)
Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Mind, World, and Self
Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis is a complete revision of the theoretical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. It is an attempt to replace the traditional... (more)
Deconstructing Normativity?: Re-Reading Freud's 1905 Three Essays
Deconstructing Normativity? brings together a unique collection of chapters in which an international selection of contributors reflect on the fundamental and often very radical ideas present in... (more)
The Neuropsychodynamic Treatment of Self-Deficits: Searching for Complementarity
The Neuropsychodynamic Treatment of Self-Deficits examines how to work psychoanalytically with patients to address the problems that result from neuropsychological impairments, exploring the latest... (more)
Contacting the Autistic Child: Five Successful Early Psychoanalytic Interventions
Amid long-standing controversy on their causes, which most regard as neurological, and despite their increasing social impact, there has been scant progress in the therapy of the autistic spectrum... (more)
Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing: A Holistic Relational Perspective on the Therapeutic Process
Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing is both a personal analytic credo and a multidimensional approach to thinking about clinical interaction. The book's central theme is that of analytic... (more)
Confusion of Tongues: A Return to Sandor Ferenczi
Sandor Ferenczi, Sigmund Freud’s brilliant pupil as well as an innovative psychoanalyst, was silenced by various generations of his contemporaries until, in the past decades, his work began to be... (more)
Faces of the Freudian 'I': The Structure of the Ego in Psychoanalysis
In this book, Reher-Langberg undertakes a systematic analysis of the notion of the Ego, such as it evolves throughout the writings of Sigmund Freud. This is done in close readings of central works,... (more)
Thinking Through Fairbairn: Exploring the Object Relations Model of Mind
Thinking through Fairbairn offers parallel perspectives on Fairbairn’s work. It explores an extended interpretation of his ‘psychology of dynamic structure’ and applies that model to a number of... (more)
Talking Cure: Mind and Method of the Tavistock Clinic
What makes the mind develop? What helps children grow up? When can we think of ourselves as adults? Why do we fall in love? Why do our feelings sometimes ‘get in the way’? How do families affect us?... (more)
The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Volume II: A Memorial Volume to Ralph R. Greenson
The exciting discovery of several incomplete chapters of Ralph R. Greenson's long awaited Volume II of The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis form the cornerstone of this memorial to a man... (more)
The African American Urban Male's Journey to Success: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Social Class
The African American Urban Male's Journey to Success is part of a growing effort within psychoanalytic thought to address psychoanalysis' historical negligence of marginalized subjects and... (more)
The Riddling Between Oedipus and the Sphinx: Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque
The issue of the other has always been an urgent one, especially since 1980's, when the political debates over race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, and post-colonialism took the central stage.... (more)
Donald W. Winnicott and the History of the Present: Understanding the Man and his Work
In November 2015, The Winnicott Trust held a major conference in London to celebrate the forthcoming publication of the Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott. Most of the papers given then now... (more)
A Dream-Guided Meditation Model and the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams
A Dream-Guided Meditation Model and the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams presents a model for meditation that counselors can use with clients regardless of gender, race, national origin,... (more)
Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma
Wounds of History takes a new view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational and social/political/cultural model looking at trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in looking beyond... (more)
Unknowable, Unspeakable and Unsprung: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Truth, Scandal, Secrets and Lies
Unknowable, Unspeakable and Unsprung delves into the mysteries of scandalous behavior- behavior that can seem shocking, unfathomable, or self-destructive - that is outrageous and offensive on the one... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Modern Jewish Philosophy: Two Languages of Love
Relational psychoanalysis and modern Jewish philosophy have much to say about the dynamics of human relationships, but there has been no detailed, thorough, and constructive examination that brings... (more)
Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in psychoanalytic views on wider social topics. In this book, the author examines how and why torture exists from a broadly psychoanalytic... (more)
Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience: Insights from Psychoanalysts and Trauma Experts
Treating traumatized patients takes its toll on the treating clinician, giving rise over time to what Richard B. Gartner terms countertrauma in the psychoanalyst or therapist. Trauma and... (more)
The Purloined Self: Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
The Purloined Self: Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis brings together nineteen essays in updated form, still as relevant, witty and informative today as when the book originally published.... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Community: History and Contemporary Reappraisals
Trauma is one of the hottest contemporary topics within psychoanalysis, whilst many psychoanalysts are increasingly interested in applying their skills outside the traditional setting of the... (more)