Psychoanalysis Books
The Self in Social Judgement
This volume begins with a historical overview of the self in social judgment, and outlines the major themes discussed. In conclusion, a chapter summary reviews the various approaches and identifies... (more)
Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-psychoanalysis
The subject of the application of neuroscience to psychoanalysis is a growing one which aims to give a new perspective on the future for psychoanalysis. A Curious Intimacy will have great appeal for... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theory for Social Work Practice: Thinking Under Fire
Written by practicing social workers and social work educators this text analyses psychoanalytic and psychosocial approaches to social work and relates them to current practices and values. Focusing... (more)
Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies
In this wonderfully illuminating sequel to A Spirit of Inquiry (Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage, 2002), Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of exploratory psychotherapy, by which he means the... (more)
Psychotherapy and the Treatment of Cancer Patients: Bearing Cancer in Mind
This book addresses the need for a more integrated care of cancer patients within hospitals which pays attention to the mental anguish as well as physical distress caused by the disease. It is based... (more)
9/11 as a Collective Trauma and Other Essays on Psychoanalysis and Society
This collection of essays tells of the psychic structure of suicide bombers and the psycho-political causes and consequences of the Iraq war, considers the psychological meaning of 9/11 for the world... (more)
The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds
John Bowlby's interest in the effects on a developing child of different forms of family experience began in 1929 when he worked for six months in a school for behaviourally challenged children. A... (more)
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind
Reflects the author's evolving view of how biology has revolutionized psychiatry and psychology and how potentially could alter modern psychoanalytic thought. (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case: Into the Void
The contributions brought together in Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case address a cross-section of significant issues that have both chronicled and facilitated the changes in feminist... (more)
The Herald Dream: An Approach to the Initial Dream in Psychotherapy
This monograph focuses on a systemic approach to dream interpretation and the unique importance of the initial dream. The first dream reported in a psychoanalytic therapy session poignantly... (more)
Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis: Integration and Innovation
As a discipline, psychoanalysis began at the interface of mind and brain and has always been about those most basic questions of biology and psychology: loving, hating, what brings us together as... (more)
Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker: A Clinical Application of W.R. Bion's Theories
Freud, Klein and Bion have provided the most relevant and substantial contributions to psychoanalytical theory and praxis. Klein was very much Freudian and Bion was both. There is undoubtedly a... (more)
Unmasking Race, Culture, and Attachment in the Psychoanalytic Space
Drawn from the John Bowlby Memorial Conference, the theme of this book addresses the often hidden and ignored subject of attachment, race and culture. Can our individual narratives in relation to... (more)
Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan
Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Rather, psychoanalysis was born in the clinic. Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain,... (more)
Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century
Mothers in the twenty-first century confront us, both in clinical practice and in theory, with fascinating challenges that to some extent subvert the traditional maternal ideal: the motherhood of... (more)
Self and Motivational Systems: Toward a Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique
This sequel to Lichtenberg's Psychoanalysis and Motivation describes an approach to psychoanalytic technique which emphasizes a sensitivity to moment-to-moment analytic exchanges and an appreciation... (more)
Love and Its Vicissitudes
In Love and its Vicissitudes Andre Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive clinical experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love. (more)
Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein
"The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein" explores the literary aspects of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic tradition that has come to be known as British Object Relations... (more)
Human Development: An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Growth, Maturity and Ageing: Fourth Edition
This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate new developments in the field. The authors discuss each of the crucial stages in human development through birth, adolescence,... (more)
Reading Freud: A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings
Reading Freudiprovides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psychoanalysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's... (more)
Freud Wars: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
How can psychoanalytic thinking be justified? The Freud Wars offers a comprehensive introduction to the crucial question of the justification of psychoanalysis. No specialised knowledge is assumed,... (more)
Secrets of the Soul - A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
Traces the origins and development of psychoanalysis, from the Enlightenment through the twentieth century, in social, economic, and cultural perspectives. (more)
Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis
Interrogates the intersection of gender and racial subjectivity in American culture. In American literature, a traumatic scene of racial and sexual awakeningfrequently involving photographs, mirrors,... (more)
New Clinical Realms: Pushing the Envelope of Theory and Technique
Focusing on facets of mental functioning and psychopathology that remain largely unrecognized in psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature, this work raises intriguing questions about man's... (more)
