Psychoanalysis Books
Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma
The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, "Wounded by Reality" is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood... (more)
Attachment and Sexuality
The papers featured in Attachment and Sexuality create a dense tapestry, each forming a separate narrative strand that elucidates different configurations of the relationship between attachment and... (more)
Guilt and Its Visissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality
How do psychoanalysts explain human morality? "Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality" focuses on the way Melanie Klein and successive generations of her followers pursued... (more)
Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections
Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first of which pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of... (more)
The Struggle Against Mourning
How does the analyst help the patient to be in touch with pain and mourning? Is the relinquishment of defenses always desirable? And what is the analyst's role in the mourning process - should the... (more)
The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory
The theory of psychoanalysis was the breakthrough that defined the intellectual ambience of the 20th century. Two-thirds of the way into the century, the new science peaked and started a steep... (more)
Erik Erikson and the American Psyche: Ego, Ethics and Evolution
Erik Erikson and the American Psyche is an intellectual biography which explores Erikson's contributions to the study of infancy, childhood and ethical development in light of ego psychology,... (more)
The Unconscious: Further Reflections
Outstanding authors from different regions and traditions present contemporary perspectives concerning Freud's fundamental assumptions on the unconscious. Contributors include Jean Laplanche, Charles... (more)
Linking, Alliances, and Shared Space: Groups and the Psychoanalyst
Group psychoanalysis (or group psychoanalytic psychotherapy) is a clinical practice that continues to be very active and plays an important role in the application of psychoanalysis, in the field of... (more)
The Geography of Meanings: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land, and Dislocation
This book is a multi-faceted attempt to understand the psychological mysteries of land, space, native cultures, changing eras, and geographical dislocation. It shows us that many remote and seemingly... (more)
From Impression to Inquiry: A Tribute to the Work of Robert Wallerstein
In this superb volume, the contributions of Bob Wallerstein are catalogued and elaborated by colleagues around the world, all leaders in their own right. The book is a fitting capstone to... (more)
Escape from Selfhood: Breaking Boundaries and Craving for Oneness
Escape from Selfhood is a detailed study of a very traumatised son of a Hungarian couple who managed to evade the Nazi death machinery by finding refuge in a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in... (more)
The Conscious in Psychoanalysis
How do we psychoanalysts, first and foremost concerned with the Unconscious, go about thinking about consciousness? And why should we be interested in the first place? The author's answer is simply... (more)
Conversations with Michael Eigen
These lively conversations provide a unique insight into the mind of one of the most original psychoanalysts of our century. The various subjects covered here spread over a wide range of interest,... (more)
The Gendered Unconscious: Can Gender Discourse Subvert Psychoanalysis?
Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis. This book investigates the nature of... (more)
The Philosopher's Desire: Psychoanalysis, Interpretation, and Truth
This book is about interpretation as it pertains to literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. It argues against certain trends of thought that claim we should do without interpretation by... (more)
Against Freud: Critics Talk Back
Everyone agrees that Sigmund Freud has had a profound impact on Western life. But even today few people know much about his life and work beyond the legends that Freud and his adherents created,... (more)
Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion
This groundbreaking study has been widely hailed for its focus on a human emotion generally considered impervious to rational analysis: romantic, passionate love. Ethel Person views romantic love as... (more)
Where the Waters Meet: Convergence and Complementarity in Therapy and Theology
Where the Waters Meet offers the reader a new way of viewing an old subject. So often psychology and counselling therapies have been, and still are, seen as competitors, or even enemies, vying for... (more)
Passion for the Human Subject: A Psychoanalytical Approach Between Drives and Signifiers
Each one of us has to be born "inter urinas et faeces", as St. Augustine so strikingly put it. More recently, Freud's 1915 discovery of 'instincts' - that is, 'drives' - and their 'viscitudes' leads... (more)
Time in Practice: Analytical Perspectives on the Times of Our Lives
This book is an original exploration of the importance in the analytical relationship of an attentiveness to lived, conscious and unconscious experiences of time in its three dimensions. It... (more)
Sex Makes the World Go Round
It is well known that Freud laid great emphasis on sexual matters. In the years that followed, a distinction was drawn between sex and gender, and the idea of gender identity was introduced. Human... (more)
Freud's Converts
This work is an exploration of the relationship between psychotherapy and religion. Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers were chosen for this exposition because both of them were seduced by the high status... (more)
On Having an Own Child: Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood
How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed?
This is the first book ever to consider in depth why people want children, and specifically why people want... (more)
Symbolization: Representation and Communication
'Because psychoanalysis is a science of subjectivity, it is no surprise that symbolism has been of central interest from its inception and early development. There are few phenomena more obviously... (more)
After Winnicott: Compilation of Works Based on the Life, Writings and Ideas of D.W. Winnicott
Harry Karnac began to specialise in psychoanalytic bookselling at the suggestion of Donald Winnicott, a customer at Karnac's bookshop in Gloucester Road during the late 1950s. The two became good... (more)
Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis
This book compares different psychoanalytic thinking and models - from a rigorously Freudian perspective - on three concepts of great theoretical and clinical importance: 'Language', 'Symbolization',... (more)
Time, Self, and Psychoanalysis
"Time, Self, and Psychoanalysis" has two theoretical foci - the first is the nature of time experience and the second is the implications of the understanding of time for conceptualizing the nature... (more)
The Future of Prejudice: Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate... (more)