Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalysis and Motivation
Carrying forward his inquiry into the nature and conditions of normal and abnormal development, the author focuses on motivation. The text offers an alternative to psychoanalytic drive theory that... (more)
Mass Psychology and Other Writings
Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In... (more)
The Unsung Psychoanalyst: The Quiet Influence of Ruth Easser
While there are many books on psychoanalysis, few address what it is like to live one's life as a psychoanalyst. The Unsung Psychoanalyst focuses on the challenges, tragedies, and rewards of a... (more)
Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity
This is the first systematic overview of Julia Kristeva's vision and work in relation to philosophical modernity. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary analysis of her thought on... (more)
Melanie Klein
New in paperback. Kristeva tells the remarkable story of Klein's life: an unhappy wife and mother who underwent analysis, and -without a medical or other advanced degree -became an analyst herself at... (more)
Psyche, Self and Soul: Rethinking Psychoanalysis, the Self and Spirituality
a many faceted exploration of the relationship of psychotherapy and spirituality. Introducing the term 'an everyday transcendence', Gargiulo studies the silent alone space of each individual and... (more)
The Body as Mirror of the World
Is today's thinking conditioned by body-mind dualism? A rebellion against the biological order seems to have silently infiltrated our world view. Suicide bombers appear to share the fascination with... (more)
Society Must Be Defended
This volume is a full transcript of the lectures given by Foucault in 1975-76. The main theme of the lectures is the contention that war can be used to analyze power relations. The book is coloured... (more)
Influential Papers from the 1940s
The 1940s was a time of great change in the psychoanalytic world. The war sounded a deathblow to continental European psychoanalysis and the death of Freud at first brought uncertainty over the... (more)
Sexuality and Attachment in Clinical Practice
The second book in the John Bowlby Memorial Conference Lecture Series. It explores our thinking about the developmental, relational and interpersonal aspects of the links between attachment and... (more)
Shame and Guilt
This book reports on the growing body of knowledge on these key self-conscious emotions, integrating findings from the authors' original research program with other data emerging from clinical,... (more)
Minding Spirituality
Clinical psychoanalyst Randall Sorenson invites us to take an interest in our patients' spirituality that is "respectful but not diffident, curious but not reductionistic, welcoming but not... (more)
Learning from Experience: A Guidebook for Clinicians
An important task facing all clinicians, especially less experienced clinicians, is to come to know oneself sufficiently to be able to register the patient's experience in useful and progressively... (more)
Impossible Training: A Relational Psychoanalytic View of Clinical Training and Supervision
Freud famously described psychoanalysis as an 'impossible' profession. Nonetheless, over the past century psychoanalysis has gone on to establish training institutes, professional societies,... (more)
Seven Deadly Sins: The Dark Companions of the Soul
In this book Anne Maguire examines the psychoanalytic relevance of evil. Using case studies and examples she examines how sin may find calamitous expression, and the consequences which can flow from... (more)
Subject to Ourselves: Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernity
Examines current debates about modernity and postmodernity from the viewpoint of psychoanalytic theory. The story develops an account of postmodernity which supplants current understandings of... (more)
Play and Reflection in Donald Winnicott's Writings
The third book in the Winnicott Clinic Lecture Series contains a lecture from Professor Andre Green on Winnicott's theory on play. He discusses Winnicott's view on the importance of play and then... (more)
From Obstacle to Ally: The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Practice
From Obstacle to Ally explores the evolution of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis through an investigation of historical examples of clinical practice. Beginning with Freud's experience of... (more)
James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis:
From its very beginning, psychoanalysis sought to incorporate the aesthetic into its domain. Depite Joyce's deliberate attempt to resist this powerful hermeneutic, his work has been confronted by a... (more)
After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning
In After-Education Deborah P. Britzman raises the startling question, What is education that it should give us such trouble? She explores a series of historic and contemporary psychoanalytic... (more)
Suffering Insanity: Psychoanalytic Essays on Psychosis
This book explores the effects of the psychotic patient's suffering on carers and the culture of psychiatric services, and makes a powerful argument for considering care in the psychiatric services... (more)