Psychoanalysis Books
Diversity, Discipline and Devotion in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Clinical and Training Perspectives
This book is a selection of papers written over 25 years of practising psychoanalytic psychotherapy, of training and supervising psychotherapists, psychodynamic counsellors and supervisors. It... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?
Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of 'science'. Ever since, there has been the assumption that psychoanalysts are hostile to... (more)
Feeling Matters
As long as feelings are second-class citizens, people will be second class citizens. Experience is an endangered species. An important function of psychotherapy is to make time for... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case: Into the Void
The contributions brought together in Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case address a cross-section of significant issues that have both chronicled and facilitated the changes in feminist... (more)
Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics
Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, providing an overview of the wide variety of psychoanalytic ideas that are... (more)
Masters of the Mind: Exploring the Story of Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the New Millennium
A fascinating, informative, comprehensive, broad-minded, brilliant, and perceptive tour of the universe of views of mental function and dysfunction, this book helps the reader understand... (more)
The Dictionary of the Work of W.R. Bion
This impressive work constitutes an important and timely addition to existing dictionaries of psychoanalytic ideas. It is not intended to replace the reading of Bion’s original texts nor is it a... (more)
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood
A remarkable exploration of his childhood by the late Richard Wollheim, one of the English-speaking worlds most distinguished postwar thinkers, and the author of many acclaimed works of philosophy,... (more)
A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis
In this richly nuanced assessment of the various dimensions of mutuality in psychoanalysis, the author shows that the relational approach to psychoanalysis is a powerful guide to issues of technique... (more)
Commitment and Compassion in Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Edward M.Weinshel
Over the course of his distinguished career, Edward Weinshel has been a moral and intellectual force in contemporary psychoanalysis and an outspoken opponent of current trends in and out of the field... (more)
The Sensitive Self
We are all sensitive beings, both physically and emotionally. What do we do with our sensitivity? How much of our sensitivity can we take? How do we become partners with our sensitivity in ways that... (more)
The Electrified Tightrope
A collection of exceptional papers by Michael Eigen, selected and assembled by Adam Phillips, that represent 20 years of writing and 30 years of work. The papers examine the tension, caused by the... (more)
Influential Papers from the 1950s
The 1950s were a pivotal era in psychoanalysis. It was a time when psychoanalytic attention turned from the exploration of the internal world to the external. The influence of object relational ideas... (more)
Postmodern Self-Psychology: Progress in Self-Psychology: Vol. 18
This work covers the several tributaries of self-psychological thought in the decades after Kohut and continues with an elaboration of "reflective relativism" as a self-psychological way out of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Paranormal: Lands of Darkness
'The space of the paranormal can indeed be frightening. But psychoanalysis specializes in entering and tolerating frightening spaces. Why should this one be an exception?'
-Nick Totton from the...
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Psychic Hooks and Bolts: Psychoanalytic Work with Children Under Five and their Families
'In this book it is made plain that complex and powerful understanding can take place in brief work. The baby's development is carried forward, the family re-groups differently, and understanding... (more)
Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer
Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer is a critical survey of Donald Meltzer's central themes which simultaneously focuses on the most important concepts of his work. This detailed volume should... (more)
The Clinical Exchange: Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems
This text offers ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. They integrate the findings of self psychology with developmental research that has refined understanding of the self as a... (more)
Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King
This book is dedicated to Pearl King who is something of an institution in herself within psychoanalysis as well as an important contributor to the development of the institution of psychoanalysis.... (more)
The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture.
New in paperback. The author of this text claims that psychoanalysis offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility, insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of good... (more)
Immaterial facts: Freud's Discovery of Psychic Reality and Klein's Development of His Work
The author demonstrates how Melanie Klein's studies of sexuality, aggression, unconscious phantasy and identification in children extended and corrected Freud's theories of the development of the... (more)
Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
This volume brings together 14 papers by interpersonal pioneers. Collectively, they demonstrate the coherence and explanatory richness of interpersonal psychoanalysis, emphasizing relational patterns... (more)
Soul Murder Revisited: Thoughts about Therapy, Hate, Love, and Memory
New in paperback. A reflection on the circumstances of child abuse, and on the consequences of this abuse. There are examples from literature and from clinical material. 328 pages. (more)
Essential Papers on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This work collects the most important writings on the comprehension and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Editor Mardi J. Horowitz provides a concise and illuminating introductory essay on... (more)
A Mind of One's Own: A Kleinian View of Self and Object
This collection of papers, written over the last six years by the author, focuses on the importance of distinguishing self from object in psychological development. He aims to demonstrate the... (more)
Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience
In the early 1970s, Cioffi demonstrated that Freud falsified the account of his discovery of the Oedipus complex - an account that had gone unquestioned until that time. Moreover, Cioffi showed that... (more)
Primitive Mental States: Volume 1: Across the Lifespan
Primitive mental states are often described in paradoxical terms - as both fundamental and complex. This first volume in an annual series contains contributions from experts in many fields, and seeks... (more)
Judaism and Psychoanalysis
Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth... (more)
