Psychoanalysis Books
Wrestling with Destiny: The Promise of Psychoanalysis
Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies? Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which... (more)
Play: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Survival and Human Development: A Cross-Disciplinary Study
Is play only a children's activity? How is the spontaneous play of adults expressed? What is the difference between play and game? What function does play have during war? Play: Psychoanalytic... (more)
The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep: A Relational Approach to Internalized Perpetration in Complex Trauma Survivors (Hardback Edition)
The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and... (more)
The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change
The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change takes a fresh look at the many forms of unconscious communication that take place in the analytic situation. Bringing together two decades of... (more)
The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye: Rethinking Psychoanalysis and Literature
The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye is the first volume of literary criticism to be co-authored by a practicing psychoanalyst and a literary critic. The result of this unique collaboration is a... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Vision: The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and the Therapeutic Process
Psychoanalytic therapy is distinguished by its immersion in the world of the experiencing subject. In The Psychoanalytic Vision, Frank Summers argues that analytic therapy and its unique epistemology... (more)
Sibling Matters: A Psychoanalytic, Developmental, and Systemic Approach
This original book gives a timely exploration of the importance of sibling relationships from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It presents for the first time an account of the work on brothers and... (more)
Attachment and Psychoanalysis: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications
Although attachment theory was originally rooted in psychoanalysis, theory and research in each area have developed quite independently. This incisive book explores ways in which attachment theory... (more)
Theory of Psychoanalytical Practice: A Relational Process Approach
This book makes an original contribution to the study of the psychoanalytic process from a relational point of view, and at the same time serves as a textbook on the theory of technique. It provides... (more)
On Freud's "Screen Memories"
The concept of "screen memories" was introduced by Freud for the first time in his 1899 paper, reprinted here in its entirety. Although the clinical interest in "screen memories" has perhaps... (more)
The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation: The Feminine-Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other
According to Jacques André, “the patient’s encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is... (more)
The First Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: A Gift for Sigmund Freud's 80th Birthday
This is a new translation of the classic 1932 Dictionary by Dr Richard Sterba, for which Freud wrote a Preface praising the "precision and correctness" of Sterba's work and calling it a "fine... (more)
Working With Difficult Patients: From Neurosis to Psychosis
In this book the author examines the series of connections that give rise to the intimate relationship between environment and individual in the construction of emotional suffering, emphasising both... (more)
Cleft Tongue: The Language of Psychic Structures
Cleft Tongue is an attempt to analyse psychic language and its diverse modes of expression, both within psychic structure and in the interpersonal realm. It begins by looking at two basic forms of... (more)
Anxiety and Personality: The Concept of a Directing Object and its Applications
The concept of a "directing object" is based on extensive clinical observations linked to a combination of ego psychology and object relations theory in the tradition of Otto Kernberg and Anne Marie... (more)
Reshaping the Self: Reflections on Renewal Through Therapy
We are organized around the double coordinates of mind-body and self-other, says author Michael Eigen. The story of therapy is, in part, the story of how the unconscious sense of self-other and... (more)
The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory has deeply affected how we think of ourselves, in emphasizing the limits of consciousness and the impact of irrational forces on our behavior. Philosophers have... (more)
The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein on Language as Bewitchment and Clarity
One of Freud's central claims is that our words and actions reveal unrecognised confusions lying at the heart of our relationships with others and the world. Taking Freud at his word and sharing his... (more)
Interpretive Voices: Responding to Patients
The contributions in this book exemplify ways in which different analysts think about and treat the issue of interpretation, illustrating the distinctiveness with which an analyst expresses his or... (more)
Early Parenting and Prevention of Disorder: Psychoanalytic Research at Interdisciplinary Frontiers
This book provides insight and findings from leading psychoanalysts who are involved in early prevention research and clinical work. Advances in the sciences of early development have brought a... (more)
Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly... (more)
Forgetting Freud: Is Psychoanalysis in Retreat?
Is psychoanalysis in retreat? Who needs psychoanalysis with its complex theory of the person? Weatherill draws not only on the work of key analytic figures like Freud, Klein and Lacan but also on... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case: Into the Void
The past two decades of psychoanalytic discourse have witnessed a marked transformation in the way we think about women and gender. The assignment of gender carries with it a host of assumptions, yet... (more)
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions shows how the present is troubled by the past and by the future, using the idea of haunting to explore psychoanalytically how identities, beliefs,... (more)
Psychohistoriography: A Post-colonial Psychoanalytical and Psychotherapeutic Model
This book lays out the model of psychohistoriography, which challenges dominant Eurocentric approaches to psychology and mental health, and includes a step by step process which professionals can use... (more)
The Couch in the Marketplace: Psychoanalysis and Social Reality
The book aims at bridging the conceptual and practical gap between a psychoanalytic focus on the internal world and the dynamics of external reality by examining an array of junctures in which the... (more)
On Sublimation: A Path to the Destiny of Desire, Theory, and Treatment
This book explores and revisits the concept of sublimation, in its various aspects and implications that it has in theory and clinical psychoanalysis, and also in its broader socio-cultural aspects.... (more)
Play, Gender, Therapy: Selected Papers of Eleanor Galenson
Eleanor Galenson had a remarkable career whose singular focus was her life-long interest in the maturational and psychosexual vicissitudes of infancy and early childhood. The selection of her... (more)
Playing and Reality Revisited: A New Look at Winnicott's Classic Work
Playing and Reality Revisited is the first volume of a new IPA series dedicated to the greatest writings of psychoanalysis. More than forty years after its publication, Donald W. Winnicott's Playing... (more)
The Klein-Lacan Dialogues
This book records a series of groundbreaking discussions that took place in 1994-95 between a number of prominent Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysts. The aim of the presentations and the debates... (more)