Psychoanalysis Books
Reading Anna Freud
What place do Anna Freud's ideas have in the history of psychoanalysis? What can Anna Freud teach us today about how to work therapeutically with children? Are her psychoanalytic ideas still relevant... (more)
Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts: Romanticism and the Analytic Attitude
What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?
This book is about what Freud called freely or evenly suspended attention, a form of listening, a... (more)
Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand: An Integrative View of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction
Work with patients with severe neuroses very often has to cope with the phenomenon that every progress in the analytic or therapeutic work is followed paradoxically by a clinical deterioration. There... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich
During the 1930s and 1940s, European psychoanalysts held fast to their professional identities despite a profoundly destabilizing reality. From Budapest to Paris the Nazis disrupted the work of this... (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)
Donald Winnicott Today
What in Winnicott's theoretical matrix was truly revolutionary for psychoanalysis? In this book, the editor and contributors provide a rare in-depth analysis of his original work, and highlight the... (more)
A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis
Inspired by the progressive and humanistic origins of psychoanalysis, Lewis Aron and Karen Starr pursue Freud's call for a psychotherapy for the people. They present a cultural history that focuses... (more)
Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis: Critical Juxtapositions of the Philosophical, the Sociohistorical and the Political
Psychoanalysis, having been situated in the borders of natural and social sciences and humanities as well as at the crossroads of Romantic, Modern and Postmodern historical conditions, continues to... (more)
History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
The relationship between psychoanalysis and history is long-standing, productive and contentious. Psychoanalysis is a historical psychology, not just in its excavation of individual psychic... (more)
Why It Is Good to Be Good: Ethics, Kohut's Self Psychology and Modern Society
John H. Riker argues that modernity, by undermining traditional religious and metaphysical grounds for moral belief, has left itself no way to explain why it is personally good to be a morally good... (more)
The Total Transference and the Complete Counter-Transference: The Kleinian Psychoanalytic Approach with More Disturbed Patients
The book takes the reader "into the trenches" with the author as he describes his psychoanalytic work with a variety of patients with difficult and complex conditions. The reader becomes familiar... (more)
Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis: Point/Counterpoint
Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis features pro and con essays on some of the most extreme Freudian claims, including the Freudian unconscious and the Oedipus complex. M. Andrew Holowchak... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Odyssey: Painted Guinea Pigs, Dreams, and Other Realities
Psychoanalytic process, as Eugene Mahon envisions it, is an odyssey through the mind of each of his analysands, the many children and adults he has treated over the forty years of his analytic... (more)
Young Children and their Parents: Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Infant Observation
The book describes, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the development of the parent-infant relationship in the first years of life. It follows the development of the child's relationship to his or... (more)
The Transformational Self: Attachment and the End of the Adolescent Phase
This book is an attempt to add to the theoretical discussion regarding the nature of the intrapsychic and interpersonal transformational changes associated with the transition from adolescence to... (more)
The Educational Role of the Family: A Psychoanalytical Model
This tract was commissioned from Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris in 1976 by the Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development as part of a project to develop policies and programmes that would... (more)
Post-Autism: A Psychoanalytical Narrative, with Supervisions by Donald Meltzer
Post-Autism recounts in close and vivid detail the story of the author’s struggle to analyse and communicate with a pubertal boy who presented with a diagnosis of untreated infantile autism. Marisa... (more)
Deadly Desires: A Psychoanalytic Study of Female Sexual Perversion and Widowhood in Fin-de-Siècle Women's Writing
Deadly Desires offers a unique perspective on female sexual desire, hysteria and the state of widowhood in the context of fin-de-siècle women’s writing. During this period, stories about hysterical... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap
The book Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap introduces an original look at handicap, a look aiming at capturing the subjectivity, no matter how weak or uncertain it may be, of... (more)
The Wolf Man: Graphic Freud
Based on his most famous case study - that of Russian aristocrat, Sergei Pankejeff - Sigmund Freud recounts the history of an obsessional neurosis. Pankejeff's troubling dream of a walnut tree full... (more)
Socioanalytic Methods: Discovering the Hidden in Organisations and Social Systems
Socioanalysis is the study of groups, organisations, and society using a systems psychoanalytic framework: looking beneath the surface (and the obvious) to see the underlying dynamics and how these... (more)
Impious Fidelity: Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics
In Impious Fidelity, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg investigates the legacy of Anna Freud at the intersection between psychoanalysis as a mode of thinking and theorizing and its existence as a political... (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)
Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning: Clinical and Theoretical Contributions
In the last several decades, the analytic field has widened considerably in scope. The therapeutic task is now seen by an increasing number of analysts to require that patient and analyst work... (more)
Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis
First English translation of Nasio’s groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.
In this long-awaited book, Juan-David Nasio, one of France’s leading Lacanian psychoanalysts, argues that the... (more)
Integral Dreaming: A Holitstic Approach to Dreams
This innovative book offers a holistic approach to one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of human experience: dreaming. Advocating the broad-ranging vision termed “integral” by thinkers... (more)
After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America
From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning... (more)
Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis Through Philosophy
This book celebrates and philosophically critiques Freud's most important contribution to understanding humanity: that psychic reality is governed by the unconscious mind. The contributors focus on... (more)
Interview and Indicators in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
The book deals with initial interviews in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, suggesting the idea of special “indicators”. These indicators relate to three main areas.
Firstly, psychoanalytical... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis Under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom
More than just a therapeutic technique, psychoanalysis as a school of thought has redefined our ideas on sexuality, the self, morality, family, and the nature of the mind for much of the twentieth... (more)