Psychoanalysis Books
Contact with the Depths
This book explores ways we make contact with the depths in ourselves and each other. We are deeply moved by contact we make with life, yet also puzzled by a need to break or lose contact, and often... (more)
Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies
Psychoanalytic theory offers an interesting insight into the study of culture and the arts. This unique book explains how clinical concepts inform and engage with key issues throughout the humanities... (more)
Old Testament Stories with a Freudian Twist
This collection of Leo Abse's last essays are writings that he was working on from 2006 up to and during his final illness. They take as their starting point stories from the Old Testament. For Abse,... (more)
Revenge: On the Dynamics of a Frightening Urge and its Taming
The authors' aim in this book is to focus on revenge as a neglected and insufficiently understood psychological mechanism in a broad spectrum ranging from the many and varied revenge acts of everyday... (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)
The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories: Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis
The normal approach to the study of the foundations of psychoanalysis is to focus on Sigmund Freud's classical texts. In this book, however, Vesa Talvitie approaches the issue from the perspective of... (more)
The Myth of Mental Illness
By diagnosing behaviour problems as mental illness, this book argues that psychiatry absolves the individual of responsibility for his actions, placing blame instead on the illness. It also argues... (more)
Education - An 'Impossible Profession'?: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Learning and Classrooms
In classrooms and lectures we learn not only about academic topics but also about ourselves, our peers and how people and ideas interact. Education - An 'Impossible Profession'? extends the ways in... (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)
The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field
The Intimate Room provides an original exploration of psychoanalytic thought, showing how contemporary psychoanalysis seeks to answer the challenges raised by today's post-modern culture. Offering a... (more)
Electra vs Oedipus: The Drama of the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Electra vs Oedipus explores the deeply complex and often turbulent relationship between mothers and daughters. In contrast to Sigmund Freud's conviction that the father is the central figure, the... (more)
A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement
The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither... (more)
Bion Today
Bion Today explores how Bion's work is used in contemporary settings; how his ideas have been applied at the level of the individual, the group and the organisation; and which phenomena have been... (more)
From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After
Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Paediatrics: Key Psychoanalytic Concepts with Sixteen Clinical Observations of Children
This book is Françoise Dolto’s 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psychoanalysis. Françoise Dolto’s aim was to... (more)
Freud and Fundamentalism: The Psychical Politics of Knowledge
At the heart of this volume are questions about the psychic components of the modes of thinking we call “fundamentalist”-that is, thinking that disavows multiplicities of meaning, abhors allegorical... (more)
Searching for the Perfect Woman: The Story of a complete Psychoanalysis
This is not your typical psychotherapy case; it is the story of one man's inner struggle to find peace and happiness in an internal world filled with dangerous father figures and tempting but... (more)
Clinical and Theoretical Aspects of Perversion: The Illlusory Bond
'Perversion is a challenge for theory and psychoanalytic practice that Juan Pablo Jimenez and Rodolfo Moguillansky, American psychoanalysts known for the originality of their contributions, have... (more)
Aggression: From Fantasy to Action
This book is a result of the 2nd International Psychoanalytic Conference: "Aggression: From Fantasy to Action", held in May 2010.
It contains papers that were delivered to the conference, together... (more)
Transcending the Legacies of Slavery: A Psychoanalytic View
This book puts psychological trauma at its centre. Using psychoanalysis, it assesses what was lost, how it was lost and how the loss is compulsively repeated over generations. There is a... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Changing World
The main purpose of this book is to look at a range of ubiquitous phenomena that make up our daily life and to ask not so much "whether" but "what" psychoanalytic thinking can add to our current... (more)
Phantoms of the Clinic: From Thought-Transference to Projective Identification
As Freud predicted, there has always been great anxiety about the place of psychoanalysis in contemporary life, particularly in relation to its ambiguous and complicated relationship to the realm of... (more)
Trauma, Torture and Dissociation: A Psychoanalytic View
Theoretical material is presented in close conjunction with clinical data in the form of vignettes and case studies to illustrate the key points outlined in this book, which focuses on the... (more)
The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein's Therapeutic Method for Psychotherapy
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)
Psychotrauma, State, Setting: Psychoanalytical-Action-Related Model for a Treatment of Complexly Traumatized Patients (SPIM-20-CTP)
A complete conception of a psychotraumatologica treatment which is applicable to complex traumatized patients (representing the majorty of psychotrauma disorders in ambulant practices) as well as to... (more)
The Psychology of Aristotle, The Philosopher: A Psychoanalytic Therapist's Perspective
This title is an investigation into the works of Aristotle in which Charalambos Ierodiakonou extracts those parts which have a psychological or psychoanalytic interest. He classifies and comments on... (more)
Matters of Life and Death: Psychoanalytic Reflections
The author's focus in this book is upon the intrapsychic vicissitudes of what it means to be truly alive and how death accompanies us at each step of our life's journey. He attempts to show that,... (more)
Off the Couch: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Applications
The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative... (more)
Invasive Objects: Minds Under Siege
A collection of papers which investigates the serious mental disturbance, often characterized by the presence of intrusive and invasive thoughts and fantasies that originate in a traumatic past but... (more)
Betweenity: A Discussion of the Concept of Borderline
From its inception psychoanalysis has sought to effect a cure through the therapeutic relationship between analyst and analysand. Betweenity looks at what happens when the established framework of... (more)