Psychoanalysis Books
Dreaming: An Opportunity for Change
"Dreaming: An Opportunity for Change" is a practical guide for both therapist and dreamer that utilizes dream interpretation for the purpose of promoting clinical change. Myron Glucksman demonstrates... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 3: New Voices
Relational psychoanalysis has revivified psychoanalytic discourse by attesting to the analyst's multidimensional subjectivity and then showing how this subjectivity opens to deeper insights about the... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Sweden: Problems, Prospects and Two Propositions
From the author's introduction: "It is my hope that more reports like this will be forthcoming from different countries, with detailed information describing the present situation of psychoanalysis;... (more)
Edoardo Weiss: The House That Freud Built
Edoardo Weiss (1889-1970) was a favoured disciple of Freud and is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis in Italy. Although he was the author of six books and over a hundred professional... (more)
Freud and the Media: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Viennese Medical Journals 1895 - 1938 (Hardback)
This book presents the results of a research project on the early reception of analysis in two influential Viennese medical weeklies, the Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift and the Wiener Klinische... (more)
Freud and Tragedy
The book examines Sigmund Freud's life and work, and sees tragedy as a concept of central importance in both. Politzer shows how for Freud the tragic experience - later formulated as the Oedipus... (more)
The Self in Transformation
This book brings together into one volume a number of articles that the author has written over the past 20 years, and includes a new extended essay written especially for this volume. The chapters,... (more)
Containment and Reciprocity: Integrating Psychoanalytic Theory and Child Development Research for Work with Children
"Containment and Reciprocity" shows how the psychoanalytic concept of containment and the child development concept of reciprocity can be used together to inform clinical work with young children and... (more)
Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold
In Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold, Janet Sayers provides a refreshingly new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its story through art. She does this by bringing together experts from the... (more)
The Dream Experience: A Systematic Exploration
The Dream Experience provides the mental health professional a systematic scientific basis for understanding the dream as a psychological event. Milton Kramer's extensive research, along with the... (more)
The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis: Papers in Philosophy, the Humanities, and the British Clinical Tradition
Ever since Freud, psychoanalysts have explored the connections between psychoanalysis and literature and psychoanalysis and philosophy, while literary criticism, social science and philosophy have... (more)
The Use of Psychoanalytic Concepts in Therapy with Families: For all Professionals Working with Families
This book begins with a readable practitioner's guide to psychoanalytic theory and concepts. It moves on to give a number of detailed practice-based examples of the application of this theoretical... (more)
Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius
In Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her... (more)
On Deaths and Endings: Psychoanalysts' Reflections on Finality, Transformations, and New Beginnings
"On Deaths and Endings" brings together the work of psychoanalytic scholars and practitioners grappling with the manifold issues evoked by loss and finality. The book covers the impact of endings... (more)
What's Wrong With Us?: The Anthropathology Thesis
In this revolutionary text, the author explains "anthropathology" which, in part, is the invisible milieu we are born into, leading to a society created by human beings that is, in the author's view,... (more)
Constructions and the Analytic Field: History, Scenes and Destiny
Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their task more of a... (more)
The Concept of Analytic Contact: The Kleinian Approach to Reaching the Hard to Reach Patient
The Concept of Analytic Contact presents practitioners with new ways to assist the often severely disturbed patients that come to see them in both private and institutional settings. In this book... (more)
Projected Shadows: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema
Projected Shadows presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focussing specifically on the representation of loss in European cinema. This theme is... (more)
Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
This is the first collection of papers published in this country which spans work with autistic children and autistic features in adults. The links between the two groups make for fascinating reading... (more)
The Psychodynamic Image: John D. Sutherland on Self in Society
The Psychodynamic Image is the first selection of John D. Sutherland's major papers. It provides an overview of the development of his thought on self and society and reveals the extent of his... (more)
The Matrix and Meaning of Character: An Archetypal and Developmental Approach - Searching for the Wellsprings of Spirit
Character structures underlie everyone's personality. When rigidly defended, they limit us; yet as they become more flexible, they can reveal sources of animation, renewal and authenticity. "The... (more)
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis spans over thirty years of Roger Kennedy's work as a practicing psychoanalyst, providing a fascinating insight into the process of development of psychoanalytic... (more)
The Literary Freud
In this book, Perry Meisel argues that Freud's texts are properly literary, and casts Freud as both literary theoretician and practitioner. Here, after an introductory reception history of Freud as... (more)
Feeling the Words: Neuropsychoanalytic Understanding of Memory and the Unconscious
"Feeling the Words" incorporates a thorough review of essential psychoanalytic concepts, a clear critical history of analytical ideas and an assessment of the contribution neuroscience has to offer.... (more)
Playing the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Interviews with Children Using Winnicott's Squiggle Technique
This book argues that the squiggle game enables one in most cases to make contact with a child with particular ease. Often, if the child takes up the suggestion, an intense dialogue develops which... (more)
When the Body Displaces the Mind: Stress, Trauma and Somatic Disease
Can the mind really generate a physical disease? Conversely, can the body cause mental illness? What do we know today about their interaction? The relations between body and mind are the source of... (more)
On Supervision: Psychoanalytic and Jungian Analytic Perspectives
This book comprises papers on the theory and practice of supervision, all written by experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapists and Jungian analytic psychotherapists. Important aspects of the... (more)
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)
Moral Stealth: How Correct Behavior Insinuates Itself into Psychotherapeutic Practice
A psychiatrist writes a letter to a journal explaining his decision to marry a former patient. Another psychiatrist confides that most of his friends are ex-patients. Both practitioners felt they had... (more)