Psychoanalysis Books
Resonance of Suffering: Countertransference in Non-Neurotic Structures
Some sixty years after the "Controversial Discussions" in the early 40s, this passionate book resurrects their spirit on a global scale. Under André Green's generous, tactful yet strong leadership, a... (more)
Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment
The chapters in this fascinating book are undergirded by the concept that the meanings which arise from unformulated experience are catalyzed by the states of relatedness in which the meanings... (more)
Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion's 'Container Model' in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Wilfred Bion's insights into the analytic process have had a profound influence on how psychoanalysts and psychotherapists understand emotional change and pathological mental states. One of his most... (more)
Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies
Whether they are supervisees entering analytic training or veteran analysts with twenty years of private practice, many capable psychoanalysts express frustration or doubt when trying to locate their... (more)
The Psychotic Wavelength: A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Psychiatry
The Psychotic Wavelength provides a psychoanalytical framework for clinicians to use in everyday general psychiatric practice and discusses how psychoanalytic ideas can be of great value when used in... (more)
Fed with Tears - Poisoned with Milk: The Nazareth Group-Relations Conferences: Germans and Israelis - The Past in the Present
With a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
This volume aims to make a unique and significant contribution to the proliferating literature on German-Israeli relatedness in the post-Holocaust era.... (more)
The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions
A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens. For anyone who has ever been to school, the very thought of education recalls an emotional world denounced. What... (more)
Sweet Dreams: Erotic Plots
A previously unpublished work by Robert Stoller. 'It was like discovering a previously unknown recording by the Beatles. On a 2007 visit to Robert Stoller's widow, Sybil, she handed me a manuscript.... (more)
Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border
'We are starting to see a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and neuroscience such as Freud could only dream of. Pay dirt will be found at the brain-mind border. One can now perhaps hope to have an... (more)
What do Patients Want?: Psychoanalytic Perspectives from the Couch
What do Patients Want? provides readers with an insight into patients' psychoanalytic experiences "from the couch".
Outcome studies have usually privileged the practitioner or researcher's... (more)
Lacan, Language, and Philosophy
Explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva's oeuvre. The social and political relevance of Julia Kristeva's work is perhaps the central question in Kristeva studies, and the essays... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
Unveils the psychoanalytic undercurrents of contemporary Islam. Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst who, although a secular thinker, identifies himself as a person of Muslim culture who rejects... (more)
Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes: Updated Edition
This a the most thorough and revealing account of the inner workings of psychoanalytic institutions. It is an in-depth study of the four leading PSA institutes in the US and their recent political... (more)
The Damaged Core: Origins, Dynamics, Manifestations, and Treatment
This comprehensive and tightly argued book deals with the process through which a coherent self evolves, the various ways such development fails to occur, and the therapeutic measures to put things... (more)
Tragic Knots in Psychoanalysis: New Papers on Psychoanalysis
This is a collection of published and unpublished papers on clinical, theoretical and applied aspects of psychoanalysis that take up various aspects of unconscious mental processes and conflicts and... (more)
Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Concrete Experience
The title of this book refers to a particular construction of the world that brooks no uncertainty: ‘things are the way I believe them to be’. There is no other way! This can be a real boost to... (more)
Losing the Race: Thinking Psychosocially about Racially Motivated Crime
Based on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
This landmark book is the first and only historical, cultural, and theoretical account of how male homosexuality has been viewed - and sometimes misconstrued - the psychoanalytic tradition, from... (more)
Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma
Rising above the polemics surrounding sexual and physical abuse, David and Jill Savege Scharff bring a relational perspective to the integration of psychoanalytic and trauma theories in order to... (more)
Male Sexuality: Why Women Don't Understand It - And Men Don't Either
At first glance the sexual male seems easy to understand, but beneath the surface lie complexities that disrupt lives and relationships. Why can men be so distant in bed? Why do many men love porn so... (more)
Loving Psychoanalysis: Technique and Theory in the Therapeutic Relationship
Written by an analyst who loves doing psychoanalysis, and who believes that psychoanalysis is a fundamentally loving endeavor. Susan S. Levine argues that the proper working attitude of the analyst... (more)
Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition
This book will stimulate readers to cross borders: between theory and practice, between research and everyday therapy, between out-patient and in-patient psychotherapy, between the view of ones own,... (more)
Through Assessment to Consultation: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Drawing from the Independent tradition in psychoanalysis, this book explores the application of psychoanalytic thinking to this work, reflecting on what is actually done and why. It provides a... (more)
Spontaneity: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry
Psychoanalytic theory frequently explains psychopathology from the perspectives of either inadequate early care or as the result of environmental factors. In this book the author suggests that poor... (more)
Sex Changes: Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis
The last half-century has seen enormous changes in society's attitude toward sexuality. In the 1950s, homosexuals in the United States were routinely arrested; today, homosexual activity between... (more)
Beyond Postmodernism: New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practice
Beyond Postmodernism identifies ways in which psychoanalysis has moved beyond the postmodern debate and discusses how this can be applied to contemporary practice. Roger Frie and Donna Orange bring... (more)
Dare to be Human: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Journey
Daniel is 35, successful, a high level professional and an accomplished academic - yet he is also a virgin, who fears that he will spend the rest of his life alone. More importantly, Daniel has... (more)
Sigmund Freud: Second Edition
Offers students an introduction to Freud's importance for psychoanalytic literary criticism, while tracing the scientific and cultural contexts from which he emerged. The book covers Freud's... (more)
Making Minds and Madness: From Hysteria to Depression
Why do 'maladies of the soul' such as hysteria, anxiety disorders, or depression wax and wane over time? Through a study of the history of psychiatry, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provocatively argues that... (more)