Psychoanalysis Books
The Evolution of Winnicott's Thinking: Examining the Growth of Psychoanalytic Thought Over Three Generations
What happens to the thinking of a thinker who refuses a discipleship? This book attempts to answer this question in relation to D. W. Winnicott and the evolution of his thinking. He eschewed a... (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)
Melodies of the Mind: Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music
What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the... (more)
Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown
In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm.
He... (more)
Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
How can we help and support people to face climate change? Engaging with Climate Change is the first book of its kind to explore in depth what climate change actually means to people. It is the first... (more)
The Female Body: Inside and Outside
This book gathers together a number of cutting edge contributions about the female body, inside and out, from a large group of psychoanalysts who are at the forefront of new thinking about issues of... (more)
Hatred and Forgiveness
Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the... (more)
Hysteria: The Disturbing History
Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavour, but through... (more)
Love and Other Emotions: On the Process of Feeling
This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the context of a theory of emotions. The account develops out of studies in brain psychology and the extension to topics in... (more)
The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives
Otto Kernberg is a towering figure in the field of psychoanalysis and has accomplished seminal work in object relations and the treatment of borderline and narcissistic patients. This volume collects... (more)
The Clinical Application of the Theory of Psychoanalysis
The “catharsis theory”, which Freud formulated when he used hypnosis, is still the prevailing theory in psychoanalysis. Freud fitted his very significant discoveries from free association into that... (more)
Paradigms in Psychoanalysis: An Integration
This book aims at making explicit the scientific theories, termed paradigms, that the author has found useful in psychoanalysis. It lists nine paradigms: genetics, neurobiology, attachment theory,... (more)
The Social Nature of Persons: One Person is No Person
Group analysis developed out of psychoanalysis, but kept the fundamental principles of the latter. The classical structural theory of the personality comprises the id that is an ego-centred instinct,... (more)
Freud on Coke
Before he thought of putting patients on the couch and interpreting their dreams, the young Sigmund Freud "did a whole lot of coke" amidst astonishing claims made by an American pharmaceutical... (more)
Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious: An Integration of Freudian, Kleinian and Bionian Perspectives
Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious looks at how the minds of the therapist and the patient interact with each other in a profound and unconscious way: a concept first described by Freud.... (more)
Invention in the Real: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne: Volume 24
The Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, Volume 24 give testament to that quasi - suicidal risk taken by analysts and members of the school, in applying, not a technique, but the Freudian... (more)
Parents and Toddlers in Groups: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Approach
This book explores how psychoanalytic principles can be applied when working with parents and toddlers in groups. Illustrated with lively observations, it discusses how these parent-toddler groups... (more)
Another Kind of Evidence: Studies on Internalization, Annihilation Anxiety, and Progressive Symbolization in the Psychoanalytic Process
In our current professional climate, with calls for 'evidenced-based treatment', and in light of the prestige accorded to this emblem, we can ask: for what purpose do we seek evidence? For our... (more)
The Enigma of the Suicide Bomber: A Psychoanalytic Essay
Why does someone resolve to take his own life in order to murder other people? What is the state of mind which allows him to commit such a monstrous act?
This book explores the mental state that... (more)
Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas: Psychoanalysis, History, Memoir
In our post-9/11 environment, our sense of relative security and stability as privileged subjects living in the heart of Empire has been profoundly shaken. Hollander explores the forces that have... (more)
Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions, and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives
Can there be a relational criteria or paradigm for termination, and what would it include? How do treatment goals of the analyst and/or that of the patient affect the decision to terminate? How do... (more)
Maimonides' Cure of Souls: Medieval Precursor of Psychoanalysis
Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud. Is Moses Maimonides an unacknowledged ancestor of the psychoanalytic movement?... (more)
Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
This book builds a key clinical bridge between attachment theory and psychoanalysis, deploying Holmes' unique capacity to weld empirical evidence, psychoanalytic theory and consulting room experience... (more)
The Analysis of the Self: A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders
Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstream psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged Freudian... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
This landmark book is the first and only historical, cultural, and theoretical account of how male homosexuality has been viewed - and sometimes misconstrued - the psychoanalytic tradition, from... (more)
Gender As Soft Assembly
Weaves together insights from different disciplinary domains to open up new vistas of clinical understanding of what it means to inhabit, to perform, and to be, gendered. Opposing the traditional... (more)
The Work of Confluence: Listening and Interpreting in the Psychoanalytic Field
This book aims to expand the Barangers' oeuvre to the English language and, consequently, to a broader spectrum of readers. These contributions represent a pioneering work of great interest to the... (more)
Sigmund Freud: Shaper of: the Unconscious Mind: Mind Shapers Series
Through a valuably balanced assessment of Freud's most influential Psychoanalysis theory and how these ideas emerged from the zeitgeist of his age, Stevens asks: how do Freud's ideas stand up against... (more)
Working with Adolescents and Young Adults: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach: Second Edition
Draws together traditional and recent psychoanalytic theory and illustrates its application to the study of practical therapeutic work with young people through vivid case material. Contemporary... (more)
The Early Years of Life: Psychoanalytical Development Theory According to Freud, Klein, and Bion
'This book provides a powerfully argued and beautifully constructed account of the early development of the child in the family context from a psychoanalytic perspective. It draws particularly on the... (more)