Psychoanalysis Books
Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative
It is often the case that painful truths emerge first in the form of denial; one needs to create distance from what is painful. In "Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative" Wilfried Ver... (more)
The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire
See catalogue number 26855 for the paperback edition. An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In "The World of Perversion", James Penney argues that antihomophobic... (more)
The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
"The International Self" explores an age-old question in international affairs, one that has been particularly pressing in the context of the contemporary Middle East: what leads long-standing... (more)
Interpersonal Boundaries: Variations and Violations
Across the lifespan we may experience moments of sublime intimacy, suffocating closeness, comfortable solitude, and intolerable distance or closeness. In Interpersonal Boundaries: Variations and... (more)
The Dissociative Mind
The Dissociative Mind takes the reader from neurophysiology to attachment theory to the clinical remediation of trauma states to the reality of evil. It provides a masterful overview of a literature... (more)
Creating a Human World: A New Psychological and Religious Anthropology in Dialogue with Freud, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard
In Creating a Human World Trappist monk and scholar Ernest Daniel Carrere explores what it means to be fully human, to live in a shared world, and to resist the easy tendency to flee reality and seek... (more)
The Development of Consciousness: An Integrative Model of Child Development, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Using 'Freud's Project for a scientific psychology' as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical research with neuroscience. Its aim is to to delineate a... (more)
The Family and Individual Development
The Family and Individual Development represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading post-war figure in developmental psychiatry. In these... (more)
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for... (more)
Narcissism: A Critical Reader
This book provides a comprehensive review of the existing perspectives and applications of narcissism as a psychoanalytic concept that has been extremely influential in the fields of psychotherapy,... (more)
Learning From Life: Becoming a Psychoanalyst
All of life can be a resource for our learning. In his fourth and most personal book, Patrick Casement attempts to understand what he has learned from life, sharing a wide range of those experiences... (more)
Resonance and Reciprocity: Selected Papers by Dennis Brown
This collection of papers, published between 1976 and 2003, traces the innovative connections which the eminent group analyst Dennis Brown made between medicine and psychoanalysis. They reveal his... (more)
Feeling, Being, and the Sense of Self: A New Perspective on Identity, Affect and Narcissistic Disorders
This book explores the underlying mechanisms of the psyche. It traces the development of the individual and, in particular, the development of the sense of self, which is understood to be intimately... (more)
The Stuff of Dreams: Anxiety, Fantasy, and Psychoanalysis
Many texts about anxiety are based either in the philosophical tradition or within the medical model under the guise of discussions about post-traumatic stress disorder. In the case of fantasy,... (more)
Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
This book provides easy to read, concise, and clinically useful explanations of over 1800 terms and concepts from the field of psychoanalysis. A history of each term is included in its definition and... (more)
Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World
What is the role of unconscious fantasies in psychological development, in psychopathology, and in the arts? In Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World Danielle Knafo and Kenneth Feiner return... (more)
Getting from Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process
Guided by the conviction that work with extremely challenging patients promotes the psychological growth and increased self-knowledge of patient and analyst alike. The author chronicles the movement... (more)
Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys
In Awakening the Dreamer, Philip Bromberg continues the illuminating explorations into dissociation and clinical process begun in his seminal Standing in the Spaces (1998). Bromberg is among our most... (more)
Sigmund Freud
Bursting defiantly and gleefully beyond the bounds of orthodox biography, Sigmund Freud is a wildly humorous exercise in bending, stretching and speculating on the activities of the so-called Father... (more)
Spirit, Mind, and Brain: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Spirituality and Religion
Mortimer Ostow proposes an explanation of spiritual experience and religious motivation that is rooted in the analysis of early childhood emotional attachments. This novel approach, which can be... (more)
Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation
Drawing on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology, and cognitive science, "Radical Pedagogy" articulates a new theory of identity that explains how developing students' identities is a... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud
Object relations, which emphasizes the importance of the pre-oedipal period and the infant-mother relationship, is considered by many analysts to be the major development in psychoanalytic theory... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
The most recent scientific studies have brought a significant contribution to the understanding of basic mental functions such as memory, dreams, identification, repression, which constitute the... (more)
The Future of Psychoanalysis (Hardback)
See catalogue number 26856 for the paperback edition. "The Future of Psychoanalysis" explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more... (more)
The Fallacy of Understanding/The Ambiguity of Change
In The Fallacy of Understanding (1972) and The Ambiguity of Change (1983), Edgar Levenson elaborated the many ways in which the psychoanalyst and patient interact - unconsciously, continuously,... (more)
Beyond the Mind-body Dualism: Psychoanalysis and the Human Body
"Beyond the Mind-Body Dualism: Psychoanalysis and the Human Body" is the result of the proceedings of the The 6th Delphi International Psychoanalytical Symposium, held in Greece in October 2004. The... (more)
Understanding Attachment and Attachment Disorders: Theory, Evidence and Practice
This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its influence on development, and attachment disorders. Summarising the existing knowledge base in accessible... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America: Leading Analysts Present Their Work
This book is a unique and superb gateway to current psychoanalytic thinking. Thirty of America's foremost psychoanalysts - leaders in defining the current pluralistic state of the profession - have... (more)
The Analysand's Tale
Most accounts of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have been written by therapists, from a professional point of view. May such accounts alone be an authentic history of what occurred between the... (more)