Psychoanalysis Books
For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of... (more)
Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities
More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest... (more)
The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues
More than a psychiatric or spiritual condition, trauma is an experience that exceeds the capacity of language to fix and settle it. As trauma crosses the lives of individuals and erupts into cultural... (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)
A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living
Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called the art of living. How are our lives meaningful? What is the relationship of loss to creativity? How can... (more)
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies. Esther Rashkin argues that psychoanalysis galvanizes, as no other... (more)
Play and Power
The power of play, so central to psychoanalytic theory and practice, is conjoined to the social psychological or socio-politically coloured concept of power, giving rise to many fruitful discussions... (more)
Freud on a Precipice: How Freud's Fate Pushed Psychoanalysis Over the Edge
This book is a psychoanalytic detective story that takes the reader back to the late 1890's and to the generally unappreciated, yet single most important, turning point in the history of... (more)
Growing Old: A Journey of Self-Discovery
People react very differently to the process of ageing. Some people shy away from old age for as long as they can and eventually spend it reflecting on times when they were physically and mentally... (more)
Primitive Mental States: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Origins of Meaning
Traditional psychoanalysis relies on the presence of certain meaning-making capacities in the patient for its effectiveness. Primitive Mental States examines how particular capacities including those... (more)
Object Relations, Work and the Self
This book applies psychoanalytic object relations theory to understanding work motivation and the meaning of work. Drawing on the writings of authors such as Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg and... (more)
The Work of Psychoanalysts in the Public Health Sector
Offers an insight into the ways in which psychoanalysts think and work with various client groups. This book explores how psychoanalytically-informed work can be used with other treatment methods,... (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)
Questioning Identities: Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice
Face-to-face with differences in the analytical relationship analysts frequently confront the limitations of their theories. In this new book Mary Lynne Ellis and Noreen O'Connor move to the heart of... (more)
Presence of Mind in Neurophysiological Processes
This book is a study of the simultaneous physiological recordings and psychoanalytic observations when emotional/psychological responses to external stimuli occur pari passu with observed... (more)
Neuroanatomy of Social Behaviour: An Evolutionary and Psychoanalytic Perspective
This book is for readers who are knowledgeable about the neurosciences and curious about brain mechanisms that produce normal and pathological social behaviour. It is a reference work that presents... (more)
A New Freudian Synthesis: Clinical Process in the Next Generation
This work presents a vision of contemporary Freudian psychoanalysis. The contributors show how modern Freudian analysts have translated and retranslated the contributions of analysts on whose... (more)
The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Bion and Jung
This book provides an exploration of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. It explores the ways psychoanalysts and other clinicians are taught to evade direct emotional... (more)
Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the... (more)
Battling the Life and Death Forces of Sadomasochism: Clinical Perspectives
This book examines the forces of sadomasochism in the clinical domain where transference and countertransference reside. Psychoanalysts write in depth about cases where sadomasochism is present for... (more)
The Aesthetic Unconscious
This book is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with why this interpretation plays such an important role... (more)
Living with a Black Dog
This second book from Matthew Johnstone, author of "I Had a Black Dog", is an equally touching and beautifully illustrated book, written for those who care for those suffering from depression -... (more)
Erich Fromm: Shaper of the Human Condition
The twentieth century was defined by far-reaching social changes, and this fresh insight into the life and works of Erich Fromm offers a compelling overview of his observations. Fromm's views on... (more)
Psychopedagogy: Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education
Examining the work of Lacan and Freud, Cho argues that a theory of pedagogy is already embedded within psychoanalysis. Psychopedagogy is the name given to this embedded theory. Through a discussion... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World
'This is a much needed book, giving a readable, insightful and constructive perspective on many of today's societal, political and economic ailments. It is my fervent hope that it finds a large... (more)
The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action
This book focuses on the question of the theory of therapeutic action underlying the multiple perspectives in psychoanalysis. The question of how psychoanalysis effects therapeutic change and the... (more)
Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life: Fourth Edition
The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of... (more)
Identity, Gender, and Sexuality: 150 Years After Freud
'While Freud opened the door on the formative and motivating power of sexuality, contemporary psychoanalysts, with some notable exceptions, have consigned sexuality to the psychoanalytic closet. This... (more)
On Freud's "Analysis Terminable and Interminable"
This book, the first in the series Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues, is published for the International Psychoanalytical Association. Each book in the series presents a classic... (more)
On Freud's "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming"
This is the fourth volume in the series Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues, published with the International Psychoanalytical Association. Each book in the series presents a... (more)