Psychoanalysis Books
Spirit and Psyche: A New Paradigm for Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This book explores the expanding literature on spirituality as an important dimension of psychology, and explains the relationship between psychological treatment and spiritual healing. The author... (more)
The Embodied Female
The Embodied Female is the first volume of this series edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association. This book... (more)
Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory
This is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer... (more)
Dreams that Turn Over a Page: Paradoxical Dreams in Psychoanalysis
In this work Quinodoz discusses a particular type of dream that comes after a phase in analysis where integration has taken place. Accompanied by anxiety and fear, which seem surprising as the dream... (more)
Reason and Unreason: Psychoanalysis, Science and Politics
This work explores the justification and legitimacy of psychoanalytic knowledge, and its relevance to political and social questions. Part one explores the achievements of British psychoanalytic... (more)
Primitive Experiences of Loss: Working with the Paranoid-Schizoid Patient
Taking as his starting point Melanie Klein's concept of the paranoid-schizoid position, and succinctly reviewing subsequent developments within the Kleinian perspective, Robert T. Waska formulates a... (more)
The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique
Analyzes the profound effects of the Holocaust devastation on the lives of the children of survivors as well as the children of Nazi leaders. (more)
The Metaphor of Play: Origin and Breakdown of Personal Being: 3rd Edition
Shows how borderline psychiatric patients can be treated by understanding their sense of self and the fragility of their sense of existence. Meares believes that the play of the pre-school child, and... (more)
Transformations: Countertransference during the psychoanalytic treatment of incest, real and imagined
In this study, Elaine Siegel discloses the countertransferential ruminations and associations with the occurrence of incest at various stages during the treatment process over the course of 30 years... (more)
Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context
Melanie Klein left Germany in 1926 and settled in London where she soon quarrelled with Anna Freud. Klein pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of... (more)
Freud in the Pampas: The emergence and development of a psychoanalytic culture in Argentina, 1910- 1983
This is a history of how psychoanalysis became an essential element of Argentine culture. The book reveals the unique conditions and historical process that made this possible and shows why the... (more)
Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity
An analysis of relationality, from attachment to intersubjectivity. Topics covered include: the psychoanalytic vision of Hans Loewald; attachment theory and relationality; Fairbairn's theory of... (more)
On moving and being moved: Non-verbal behavior in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This work examines non-verbal behaviour in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and covers topics such as: talking and acting; attunement; temperament, interaction and self; and the body. (more)
Nocturnes: Reflections on dreams and psychoanalysis
A series of reflections on dreams and psychoanalysis. Chapters examine: wishes and dreams; dreams from the dawn of time; a naturalist approach; dream disguise; where do dreams come from?; the private... (more)
Attachment and adult psychotherapy
This work offers an understanding of key attachment concepts to psychotherapy with adults. Treating different forms of emotional disturbances from this perspective, Dr Sable illustrates how... (more)
The therapeutic process: Essays and lectures
This volume of essays provides a record of Karen Horney's ideas about the therapeutic process. She discusses countertransference phenomena and the ways in which a therapist's personality can... (more)
Dreams and Emotional Adaptation: A Clinical Notebook for Psychotherapists
In this groundbreaking book, Dr Langs invites you into his world. With this invitation comes a new understanding of dreams and the insights they hold. It offers an innovative method of attending to... (more)
The Destructive Narcissistic Pattern
This text describes a constellation of characteristics generally associated with pathological narcissism, but which are fewer and less severe. Nonetheless, these characteristics negatively impact... (more)
Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism
Offers a broad-ranging perspective of the contemporary debates surrounding social constructionist perspectives in psychology. The contributors map connections between theory, method, and politics in... (more)
Truth games: lies, money and psychoanalysis
New in paperback. These essays offer a philosophical and historical perspective on the mechanics, moral dilemmas, and implications of psychoanalysis. The book attempts to provide an understanding of... (more)
The Person Who Is Me: Contemporary Perspectives on the True and False
The Squiggle Foundation has for many years produced Winnicott Studies, a journal which celebrates and reconsiders the work of Donald Winnicott, the groundbreaking pediatrician and psychoanalyst. This... (more)
The Making of a Psychotherapist
In the first part of the book - 'Personal Qualities' - we are reminded that Psychotherapy means 'Healing the Soul', and that the healer has a moral responsibility for the state of his own mental... (more)
The Basic Fault: Therapeutic Aspects of Regression
A classic work, which describes the primal trauma between parent and child.
Before I was I: Psychoanalysis and the Imagination
This volume is the collected papers of a leading figure in British psychoanalysis. The book is divided into three parts, which show her at work with individual patients, doctors and marital... (more)
Clinical Workbook for Psychotherapists
'This book is a one-volume condensation of a previously published three-volume set of workbooks. I have preserved the workbook format and have tried to select the most cogent clinical vignettes... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Development: Representations and Narratives
Explores the relationship between 'representation' and 'narration' and how they have developed the language of therapy and theories of psychoanalysis and development.
