Psychoanalysis Books
Culture and Psyche: Selected Essays: Second Revised Edition
A new edition including three additional essays and a new introduction. Culture and Psyche is a collection of Sudhir Kakar's essays on cultural psychology, which analyses various facets of Indian... (more)
NeuroAnalysis: Bridging the Gap between Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry
"NeuroAnalysis" investigates using the neural network and neural computation models to bridge the divide between psychology, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience when diagnosing mental health disorders... (more)
The Dead Father: A Psychonanlytic Inquiry
What is the significance of the Father in psychoanalysis today? This book constructs a much needed framework to allow psychoanalysts to consider the difficulties of a generation without a solid... (more)
Psychoanalytic Disagreements in Context
Contemporary psychoanalysts are eclectic and believe they use the best ideas from each of our numerous competing theoretic models. However, there is confusion and controversy about what constitutes... (more)
Understanding Psychoanalysis
Presents a broad introduction to the key concepts and developments in psychoanalysis and its impact on modern thought. Charting pivotal moments in the theorization and reception of psychoanalysis,... (more)
Centers of Power: The Convergence of Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah
Kabbalah and psychoanalysis are conceptions about the nature of reality. The former is over two thousand years old. The latter has been formalized less than a hundred years ago. Nonetheless they are... (more)
The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude
In times of stress, trauma and crisis - whether on a personal or global scale - it can be all too easy for us to externalize a larger-than-life figure who can assuage our suffering, a Hero who comes... (more)
The Consulting Room and Beyond: Psychoanalytic Work and Its Reverberations in the Analyst's Life
"The Consulting Room and Beyond" is not a typical example of clinical writing in the field of psychoanalysis. Therese Ragen, pushing the boundaries of the genre, thoughtfully explores in a very... (more)
Psyche's Veil: Psychotherapy, Fractals and Complexity
Historically, the language and concepts within clinical theory have been steeped in linear assumptions and reductionist thinking. Because the essence of psychotherapy involves change, "Psyche's Veil"... (more)
Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice
This book bridges psychoanalytic thought and sexual science. It brings sexuality back to the center of psychoanalysis and shows how important it is for students of human sexuality to understand... (more)
The Making of Psychotherapists: An Anthropological Analysis
Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform... (more)
Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy
This important book explores a new direction that can enable therapists of any orientation to better understand and help their patients. While psychoanalysis has traditionally been seen as a world... (more)
Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion
"Feminine Look" shows how the Lacanian concept of sexuation makes possible a new account of the relationship among feminism, psychoanalysis, and spectatorship. Whereas previous studies have tended to... (more)
Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism
Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis? What can this desire contribute to a vital cultural criticism? In "Desire of the Analysts", these and other questions are addressed by leading... (more)
Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children
This biography provides a critical account of the life and work of Susan Isaacs (1885-1948). This educationist, a pioneer of child-centred education in Britain was also an early and historically... (more)
Siblings in Development: A Psychoanalytic View
Siblings play an integral and essential part in our psychic development. Traditionally in psychoanalytic thinking, sibling relationships are regarded as secondary in developmental importance to the... (more)
A Framework for the Imaginary: Clinical Explorations in Primitive States of Being
An extraordinary depiction of one analyst's efforts to receive and respond to the vivid impressions of her patients raw and sometimes even unmentalized experiences as they are highlighted in the... (more)
The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics: A European Study Bridging Ethics, Psychoanalysis, and Medicine
Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology... (more)
On the Way Home: Conversations Between Writers and Psychoanalysts
Literature was present at the birth of psychoanalysis. When Freud made his momentous discovery of the Oedipus complex within himself and his patients, he recognised that this psychic configuration... (more)
Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations
Using Kohut's seminal paper "Forms and Transformations of Narcissism" as a springboard, Frank Lachmann updates Kohut's proposals for contemporary clinicians. Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on... (more)
Promises, Oaths, and Vows: On the Psychology of Promising
Considering that getting along in civil society is based on the expectation that (most) people will do what they say they will do, i.e., essentially live up to their explicit or implicit promises, it... (more)
Making a Difference in Patients' Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting
Within the title of her book, "Making a Difference in Patients' Lives", Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its... (more)
Coasting in the Countertransference: Conflicts of Self Interest Between Analyst and Patient
Irwin Hirsch asserts that counter-transference experience always has the potential to be used productively to benefit patients. However, he also observes that it is not unusual for analysts to... (more)
Breaking Up Blues: A Guide to Survival and Growth
An indispensable, practical self-help book for those going through break-up and divorce. Leaver or left, breaking up is much more painful than youd ever expect. There are so many pitfalls that can... (more)
Being in Love: Therapeutic Pathways Through Psychological Obstacles to Love
Expands the traditional field of psychoanalytic couple therapy, and explores therapeutic methods of working through the obstacles leading to true love. Becoming who we are is an inherently relational... (more)
Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918-1938
Many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. This work presents a different picture of Freud and early... (more)
The Dissociative Mind
Drawing on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn and making extensive use of recent literature, Elizabeth Howell develops a comprehensive model of the dissociative mind.... (more)
Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
One of the guiding premises of Becoming a Subject is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world cannot separate itself from investigations of a more... (more)
From Psychoanalytic Narrative to Empirical Single Case Research: Implications for Psychoanalytic Practice
Recognition of the need for empirical research and interest in its findings are growing in psychoanalysis. Many psychoanalysts now acknowledge that research is imperative to try to deal with the... (more)
Sitegeist - Number 2 (Spring 2009) - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Sitegeist is a space for thinking and questioning philosophy and psychoanalysis; it aims at a change in Geist - spirit, mind, intellect, wit, genius and morale. It seeks to contribute to a renewal of... (more)