Psychoanalysis Books
Updating Midlife: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (+ DVD)
"Midlife" is a concept used everywhere and from many different vertexes, though mostly imprecisely, even within the psychoanalytic paradigm. This book tries to settle its proper meaning through the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Essays on Power and Vulnerability
'This fascinating book, the last in a trilogy on psychoanalytic reflections, edited by Halina Brunning, explores power and vulnerability in three related areas: Leadership and Organizations, the... (more)
Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
This is the first book of its kind to offer a sustained critique of contemporary psychoanalytic thought favoring relational, postmodern, and intersubjective perspectives, which largely define... (more)
Dancing with the Unconscious: The Art of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalysis of Art
Combining theory and therapy - the clinic and the studio - Danielle Knafo's Dancing with the Unconscious extends the dialogue between psychoanalysis and art and shows how each discipline informs the... (more)
The Neurobiology of the Gods: How Brain Physiology Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams
Where does science end and religion begin? Can spiritual images and feelings be understood on a neurobiological level without dismissing their power and mystery? In this book, psychiatrist Erik... (more)
The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling is widely regarded as one of the most difficult and influential of German philosophers. In this book, S, J. McGrath not only makes Schelling's ideas accessible to a... (more)
Canvas of Change: Analysis Through the Prism of Creativity
This book presents a detailed account of two analytic case studies examined through the particular viewpoint of creativity.
The first part of the book contains a review of the classical and... (more)
All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion
Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. In this insightful and eloquent meditation on that many-splendored thing, Lisa Appignanesi draws on history, philosophy, psychology, literature,... (more)
The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Work in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach... (more)
A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein
In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists,... (more)
Madness is Civilization: When the Diagnosis was Social, 1948-1980
In the 1960s and '70s, the popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many... (more)
The Girl who Committed Hara-Kiri and Other Clinical and Historical Essays
This book bears witness to the author's psychoanalytic journey from the years 1994-1995 to the present, and as such is a completion and a continuation of his previous Psychoanalysis as a Journey of... (more)
The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent
n this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric,... (more)
Men and Mothers: The Lifelong Struggle of Sons and Their Mothers
Not all men vie with their fathers for the love of their mothers. In some families the mother becomes the central figure for her son - the father is excluded (or excludes himself) and does not come... (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)
Racist States of Mind: Understanding the Perversion of Curiosity and Concern
Racism is a treacherous phenomenon with many faces that allow it a remarkable capacity to co-exist with support for ethnic and cultural diversity. In both its subtle and virulent forms, racist states... (more)
Century of Insight: The Twentieth Century Enlightenment of the Mind
This is the story of the discovery of the unconscious mind. Beginning with the ideas of Freud and Jung, it is a journey that describes through case histories, explanation and humour, how successive... (more)
The Psychology of the Person
This new title, from a distinguished psychoanalyst, will inspire both those in the psychoanalytic field, and the general reader.
‘In this book I attempt to sketch out a "Psychology of the... (more)
A Clinical Application of Bion's Concepts: Volume 3: Verbal and Visual Approaches to Reality
The final book in the three-volume series, A Clinical Application of Bion’s Concepts – a practical companion to the dictionary of concepts The Language of Bion - is divided in four main parts. Part... (more)
Waiting To Be Found: Papers on Children in Care
This book is about children in State care and its title – Waiting to be Found – is derived from an observation about such children by the child psychotherapist Hamish Canham.
In one of his... (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 Analysis of Failure: An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis don't always work. Inevitably, a therapy or analysis may fail to alleviate the suffering of the patient. The reasons why this occurs are as manifold as the patients... (more)
Manual of Panic-focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Extended Range
This manual presents a carefully researched, detailed psychodynamic treatment program for the alleviation of a transdiagnostic range of primary Axis I anxiety disorders, including panic disorder,... (more)
Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice
In her latest book, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality, Nancy Chodorow examines the complexity and uniqueness of each person's personal creation of sexuality and gender and the ways that these... (more)
Anteros: A Forgotten Myth
Anteros: A Forgotten Myth explores how the myth of Anteros disappears and reappears throughout the centuries, from classical Athens to the present day, and looks at how the myth challenges the work... (more)
Marx and Freud in Latin America
Marx and Freud in Latin America seeks to reassess the timeless relevance of the work of Marx and Freud for Latin America, based on the premise that Marxism and psychoanalysis are neither... (more)
Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
How can one overcome deeply-held resentment so as to resume or establish a bond with a traumatizing person, mindful that the experience of the self is rooted in the very intimate relationships from... (more)
Elements of Self-Destruction
Why are humans, who are motivated by self-preservation, also motivated to engage in behaviors that threaten and even extinguish their existence? The present work has given thought to this question... (more)
The Triumphant Victim: A Psychoanalytical Perspective on Sadomasochism and Perverse Thinking
Most people have some idea of the meaning of the words sadism and masochism, but often this does not go beyond rather vague ideas of either inflicting or enjoying pain. Few people ask themselves what... (more)
Taking the Transference, Reaching Toward Dreams: Clinical Studies in the Intermediate Area
"One of the aims of this game is to reach to the child's ease and so to his fantasy and so to his dreams.” What a lovely description of an easy interplay between two people, leading to the... (more)