Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Psychoanalysis of Science: The Role of Metaphor, Paraprax, Lacunae and Myth
By systematically deconstructing and analysing scientific texts for irrational unconscious motivations, new scientific associations can be produced. Four categories are suggested as guidelines for... (more)
Gender Space and Power
Presenting the key concept of 'ovular space' as opposed to 'rectilinear' spatial concepts as a new paradigm for social analysis, the authors put forward a wide-ranging social and cultural critique... (more)
Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference
In Fair Sex, Savage Dreams, Jean Walton examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher it in the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s,... (more)
Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality
Narcissists have been much maligned, but according to clinicians who study personality, there are many productive narcissists who succeed spectacularly well in life because they can articulate a... (more)
The Fall of an Icon: Psychoanalysis and Academic Psychiatry
Over the last few decades, academic psychiatry has undergone a revolution. After the Second World War, most department chairs were psychoanalysts who belonged to separate institutes, not subject to... (more)
Freud and Dora: 100 Years Later: Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol.25 No.1
Contents:
SUSAN S. LEVINE, , L.C.S.W. - Prologue
LILLIAN WEISSBERG, Ph.D.- Exit Dora: Freud's Patient Takes Leave
PATRICK J. MAHONY, PH.D.- Freud's Unadorned and Unadorable: A Case History... (more)
Glacial Times: A Journey Through the World of Madness
`Salomon Resnik brings together various facets of his work as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, working in both the private sector and in institutional settings, to provide a careful summary of a... (more)
Self Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible
"Insight" and "Change." The problematic relationship between these two concepts, to which the reality of psychoanalytic patients who fully understand maladaptive patterns without being able to change... (more)
Relational and Intersubjective Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of... (more)
Before Words
Psychoanalysis has continuously been applied to the exploration of creativity and artistic genius, but up to now, this has not produced its own systematic body of knowledge. The traditional... (more)
Psychoanalytic Ideas and Shakespeare
Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth, as is the work of Shakespeare. These papers... (more)
Sex, Mind, and Emotion: Innovation in Psychological Theory and Practice
Recent decades have seen a decline in the emphasis on sexuality in psychoanalytic theory, whilst clinical psychology has become more involved in sexual health issues. Sexuality remains at the core of... (more)
Is It Too Late?: Key Papers on Psychoanalysis and Ageing
This book brings together a selection of classic psychoanalytical papers related to ageing, dying and death that have appeared in the renowned International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP). Two... (more)
Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 1918-1938
Today many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. However, in this new work Elizabeth Ann Danto presents a... (more)
The Matrix of Hysteria: Psychoanalysis of the Struggle Between the Sexes as Enacted in the Body
The current diversity in psychoanalytic theories of hysteria h confused our understanding of the concept. Matrix of Hysteria offers a new perspective, which draws on previous theories to present a... (more)
Becoming Alive: Psychoanalysis and Vitality
Becoming Alive draws on the Winnicottian idea of transitional objects, and puts forward the argument that human beings relate to and use objects in order to generate experiences of 'being alive'. (more)
The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland: Psychotherapeutic Applications
The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland provides the first comprehensive review of W.R.D. Fairbairn and John Sutherland's theories on psycho-social development. It reviews Fairbairn and Sutherland's... (more)
The Telescoping of Generations: Listening to the Narcissistic Links Between Generations
The Telescoping of Generations is an original perspective on the nature of narcissism, exploring how the traumatic experiences of previous generations influence the mechanisms involved in the... (more)
Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics
Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, providing an overview of the wide variety of psychoanalytic ideas that are... (more)
Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions: The Kleinian Psychoanalytic Approach with Difficult Patients
Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions offers a clear introduction to psychoanalytic practice from a Kleinian perspective and shows how the modern Kleinian works with the most taxing and least... (more)
Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror
Blind Trust is the culmination of more than three decades of profound immersion in the most pressing sociopolitical conflicts of our time, by the psychoanalyst with probably the most direct... (more)
Masters of the Mind: Exploring the Story of Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the New Millennium
A fascinating, informative, comprehensive, broad-minded, brilliant, and perceptive tour of the universe of views of mental function and dysfunction, this book helps the reader understand... (more)
Psychoanalysis as Biological Science: A Comprehensive Theory
Psychoanalysis was once considered primarily a humanistic enterprise. The psychoanalyst was a philosopher and an artist, adept at deciphering the communications and intrapsychic behaviors of the... (more)
Killing Freud: Twentieth Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis
Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, Killing Freud ranges across... (more)