Psychoanalysis Books
Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis: Brandchaft's Intersubjective Vision
Best known for his contributions to the development of contemporary intersubjectivity theory, Bernard Brandchaft has dedicated a career to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice.... (more)
First Do No Harm: The Paradoxical Encounters of Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and Resistance
At the outset of World War I - the "Great War" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations: Postmodernism, Complexity, and Neuroscience
Past scholars have tried to classify psychoanalysis as an intrinsically positivist science, with varying degrees of success. Their critics have fared little better with narrow applications of... (more)
The Artist's Mind: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Creativity, Modern Art and Modern Artists
For the past century psychoanalysts have attempted to understand the psychology of art, artists and aesthetic experience. This book examines how contemporary psychoanalytic theory provides insight... (more)
Longing for Nothingness: Resistance, Denial, and the Place of Death in the Nursing Home
In Longing for Nothingness: Resistance, Denial, and the Place of Death in the Nursing Home, Andrew Stein offers a groundbreaking new psychoanalytic treatment of the depression and other mental... (more)
The Wound of Mortality: Fear, Denial, and Acceptance of Death
Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in... (more)
Therapeutic Attachment Relationships: Interaction Structures and the Processes of Therapeutic Change
The seventy-five years that span the writings of Sigmund Freud and John Bowlby - two minds that have significantly shaped thinking about the processes of change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis -... (more)
The Processes of Defense: Trauma, Drives, and Reality - A New Synthesis
In this direct and scholarly book, Dr. Joseph Fernando provides the first in-depth exploration and up-to-date revision of the psychoanalytic theory of defenses since Anna Freud's 1936 classic, The... (more)
Hypocrisy Unmasked: Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity
Hypocrisy Unmasked explores the motives, meanings, and mechanisms of hypocrisy, challenging two principal psychoanalytic assumptions: First, that hypocrisy expresses deviant, uncontrollable impulses... (more)
Freud on the Psychology of Ordinary Mental Life
This book works to expose that vision and to demonstrate its fertility for further inquiry. It reconstructs several of Freud's works on ordinary mental life, tracking his method of inquiry, in... (more)
Freud and the Far East: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the People and Culture of China, Japan, and Korea
This book is a lexical ambassador with the dual responsibility of bridging the West and East and enhancing psychoanalytic conceptualization in the course of such an encounter. By juxtaposing the... (more)
Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process
Offers an original theory of the nature of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) and their practical use from a naturalistic (nonsupernatural and non-Jungian) perspective. The findings are the... (more)
Beginning to Grow: Five Studies
Beginning to Grow: Five Studies describes work with five children from infancy to maturity at age eighteen. The children's growth is traced with regard to and in terms of conflict and ego strength.... (more)
Eigen in Seoul: Volume 1: Madness and Murder
This book contains an eighteen hour seminar - given over a three day period - presented by Michael Eigen in Seoul, Korea, in 2007. The seminar traces transformations of madness and faith in... (more)
Intimacies
Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here engage in a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as... (more)
Mapping Psychic Reality: Triangulation, Communication, and Insight
This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation. Fundamentally, this book seeks to address the question of how we can be... (more)
A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis
This book introduces a theoretical framework for studying the mind. Specifically, an attempt is made to frame ideas from psychoanalysis and cognitive-social psychology so that they can be taken... (more)
Ferenczi's Language of Tenderness: Working with Disturbances from the Earliest Years
Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work. Using Ferenczi's... (more)
The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
The one thousand entries in this book provide the best single volume coverage of psychoanalysis available. With its wide, objective and catholic vision, the Encyclopaedia demonstrates that... (more)
A Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body
Drawing on Dinora Pines' lifetime of clinical experience this classic book provides a psychoanalytic understanding of womens relationships with their bodies, focusing on key moments in women's... (more)
Sabert Basescu: Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis
An influential part of the New York psychoanalytic scene, Sabert "Sabe" Basescu is regarded as an outstanding analyst and a significant proponent of the integration of existentialism and... (more)
Get the Diagnosis Right: Assessment and Treatment Selection for Mental Disorders
In this remarkable book, Jerome Blackman allows all readers, from beginners through advanced analysts, to learn about the details of diagnosis of mental disturbance and specific recommendations for... (more)
Freud's Schreber Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: On Subjective Disposition to Psychosis
This book investigates what was distinctive about the predisposition to psychosis Freud posited in Daniel Paul Schreber, a presiding judge in Saxony's highest court. It argues that Freud's 1911... (more)
Her Hour Come Round at Last: A Garland for Nina Coltart
This title is a celebration of the life of Nina Coltart, who had a career in medicine and psychoanalysis and was author of bestselling titles in psychotherapy The Baby and the Bathwater and How to... (more)
Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision
In his latest groundbreaking book, Peter L. Rudnytsky examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted... (more)
Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process
'Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process is a rare book. It is lively and interesting, lucid, and yet profound. It succeeds where many other recent attempts to provide new insight about... (more)
Working with Violence: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach
It has become an urgent priority to tackle the problem of violence. But in an age preoccupied with public protection and risk, violent behaviour is more likely to provoke a punitive response than any... (more)
A Dangerous Legacy: Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement
On 23rd July 1908 Sigmund Freud wrote to his colleague Karl Abraham: "Rest assured that if my name were Oberhuber [an obviously non-Jewish name], in spite of everything my innovations would have met... (more)
Guide to Psychoanalytic Developmental Theories
The influence of psychoanalytic theories of development was profound and still resonates in the thinking and practice of mental health professionals. This title provides an overview of what these... (more)
Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question
What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical... (more)