Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Looking into Later Life: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Depression and Dementia in Old Age
Looking into Later Life aims to bring alive the relevance and value of psychoanalytic concepts in supporting the core role of those working directly in services for people who are older. It does not... (more)
Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference: Perspectives from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis
How do gender and sexual difference influence the erotic transference? Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference offers new insights into working with complex transference and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life: Durations of the Unconscious Self
Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life examines the relationship between therapy and the time of life, presenting an original and thought-provoking re-reading of psychoanalysis in relation to questions... (more)
The Capacity to Care: Gender and Moral Subjectivity
Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved... (more)
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College De France, 1973-1974 (Hardback)
See catalogue number 27486 for the paperback edition. In this new addition to the "College de France Lecture" series, Michel Foucault's historical enquiry into the uses and techniques of power and... (more)
Sex on the Couch
At just the right moment when many people are ready to throw Freud onto the ash-heap of intellectual history, "Sex on the Couch" rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on... (more)
The Healer's Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter
Thematically integrating published and unpublished papers, and containing three chapters of autobiographical reflection, this book aims to make the author's distinct approach to clinical theory and... (more)
Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva: Literature, Art, Therapy
In 'Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva', Carol Mastrangelo Bové explores how Kristeva's theoretical and fictional writings contribute to an understanding of contemporary personal and... (more)
History of Madness
Challenging entrenched views of madness and reason, "History of Madness" is one of the classics of twentieth century thought. It is Foucault's first major work, written in a dazzling and sometimes... (more)
Reading Freud: Psychoanalysis as Cultural History
Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to Freud and brings together for the first time: an... (more)
Globalization and Terrorism: Death of a Way of Life
How do we explain the factors that led to the murder by Muslim immigrants of Theo van Gogh in Holland? How do we explain why four young British Muslims should become suicide bombers who killed... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love and Sexuality
Man has great difficulty accepting who he is. In "Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love and Sexuality", author Gerd H. Fenchel traces how we have defined ourselves historically and in the present... (more)
Martha Freud: A Biography
Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived at his side for... (more)
The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Questions of soul and spirit are increasingly being raised in connection with the scientific exploration of the psyche, and especially in the context of psychotherapy. The contributors to this volume... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?
Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of 'science'. Ever since, there has been the assumption that psychoanalysts are hostile to... (more)
Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
See catalogue number 27001 for the paperback edition. One of the guiding premises of "Becoming a Subject" is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world... (more)
Going Sane
We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? In 'Going Sane', psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips delves deep into history, philosophy, literature, and his own experiences to address... (more)
Personality Disordered Patients: Treatable and Untreatable
Determining the amenability of personality disorders to psychotherapy - a patient's capacity to benefit from verbal approaches to treatment - is important in helping clinicians determine the... (more)
Truth, Reality and the Psychoanalyst: Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis
All the key ideas developed by psychoanalysis in Latin America are included in this book, as well as relevant historical events for psychoanalysis in each country. The authors of the chapters are... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration and Exile
In this book Doctors Leon and Rebeca Grinberg provide the first psychoanalytic study of both normal and pathological reactions to migration and to the special case of exile. Drawing on rich clinical... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Image: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
"Psychoanalysis and the Image" brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern... (more)
The Anorexic Mind
Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence which may be transitory, to serious and chronic mental illnesses. The Anorexic Mind offers a coherent approach to... (more)
Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency
In this volume contemporary staff describe their thinking and clinical work. Theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics and the... (more)
The Bi-sexuality of Daniel Defoe: A Psychoanalytic Survey of the Man and His Works
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is known to many only by his first novel, "Robinson Crusoe", astonishingly written as he approached his sixtieth year. Acknowledged as the first of English novelists, he has... (more)
The Soul, the Mind, and the Psychoanalyst
This book is based on various cases whose common factor is how the psychoanalytic setting is created: the internalization and realization inside the patient`s mind: with the feeling of fixed hours... (more)
Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire
Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire is a contemporary, interdisciplinary exploration of one of psychoanalysis's most foundational and fascinating areas of investigation. This anthology explores... (more)
Constructing a Mind: A New Basis For Psychoanalytic Theory
Can the Protomental System provide a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory? "Constructing a Mind" draws on psychoanalytic theories of mind and recent developments in cognitive science to present... (more)