Psychoanalysis Books
Influential Papers from the 1920s
A collection of papers from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis that were originally published in the 1920s. The papers are divided into their subject matter and contextualised through... (more)
Fifty Years of Attachment Theory: The Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture
This is the second volume in the series based on the annual Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture. Sir Richard Bowlby looks at the personal and professional lives of Donald Winnicott and Dr John Bowlby,... (more)
Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self
In a brilliant examination of the frontiers of human emotion and cognition, four prominent psychoanalysts combine the perspectives of developmental psychology, attachment theory and psychoanalytic... (more)
Notes on the Aniconic: The Foundations of Psychology in Ontology
'Eric Rhode seeks to explore a domain that has long been missing in psychoanalytic psychology, the ineffable domain of ontology or existence. He describes a multi-layered, numinous domain that... (more)
Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it... (more)
Selected Contributions to Psycho-Analysis
A welcome reissue of the collected papers of John Rickman, originally published in 1957, with a new preface by Pearl King. It spans 30 years of Rickman's rapidly-expanding psychoanalytic research in... (more)
The Vale of Soulmaking: The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind
The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the "internal object" with its... (more)
The Blind Man Sees: Freud's Awakening and Other Essays
The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus in the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a... (more)
Mapping the Mind: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
This reissued classic text is a comprehensive guide to the basics that shows simply how things work. Each chapter begins with a precis to relate the contents to the wider context and the book ends... (more)
Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis
This work presents a complete history of psychoanalysis from its origins in 19th-century medical science to the end of the 20th century. The origins of psychoanalysis as well as the more immediate... (more)
Research on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults
Volume 7 in the EFPP Series that aims to promote the pan-European community of psychoanalytic psychotherapists. The contributors come from different cultures but are united in their view of the... (more)
The Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema
A collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors,... (more)
Influential Papers from the 1950s
The 1950s were a pivotal era in psychoanalysis. It was a time when psychoanalytic attention turned from the exploration of the internal world to the external. The influence of object relational ideas... (more)
The Dove in the Consulting Room: Hysteria and the Anima in Bollas and Jung
Drawing on the works of Jung, Hillman and Giegrich, the author provides a rich rejoinder to Bollas's proposed theory of hysteria, and provides a unique Jungian analysis of analysis itself - both... (more)
Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony
This book argues that properly understood, irony plays a crucial role in therapeutic action. It is written as an invitation to clinicians to renew their own engagement with the fundamental concepts... (more)
Bad Feelings: Selected Psychoanalytic Essays
Everyone experiences "bad" feelings - guilt, shame, humiliation, envy and more. Yet despite the fact that such emotions are a common occurrence, these painful feelings are often labelled as wrong, a... (more)
Spirit and Psyche: A New Paradigm for Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This book explores the expanding literature on spirituality as an important dimension of psychology, and explains the relationship between psychological treatment and spiritual healing. The author... (more)
Donald Winnicott The Man: Reflections and Recollections
The Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture given by Joyce McDougall.
This lecture is an annual event designed for a wide audience of professionals and others involved with children. These lectures... (more)
Optimal Responsiveness: How Therapists Heal Their Patients
A new generation of dynamic therapists is taking a fresh look at what actually heals the patient. In contrast to the classical vision, whose essential feature is intervention by interpretation in an... (more)
Postmodern Self-Psychology: Progress in Self-Psychology: Vol. 18
This work covers the several tributaries of self-psychological thought in the decades after Kohut and continues with an elaboration of "reflective relativism" as a self-psychological way out of... (more)
The Troubled Mind of Northern Ireland: An Analysis of the Emotional Effects of the Troubles
The "Troubles" in Northern Ireland have endured for so long that eventually the abnormal has become normal. This volume examines the processes by which society has become gradually dehumanised, and... (more)
The Sadomasochistic Perversion: The Entity and the Theories
In this book Franco de Masi examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism and surveys in detail the theories of other psychoanalysts. He explores the relationship between... (more)
You Ought To!: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Superego and Conscience
The superego is one of those psychoanalytic concepts that has been assimilated into ordinary language, like repression, the unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Because it has become such a familiar... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Art: Kleinian Perspectives
This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art.
Sandra... (more)
Acquainted with the Night: Psychoanalysis and the Poetic Imagination
This book explores some of the ways in which an understanding of poetry, and the poetic impulse, can be fruitfully informed by psychoanalytic ideas. It could be argued that there is a particular... (more)
The Learning Relationship: Psychoanalytic Thinking in Education
This book offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational institutions. It looks at the origins of learning in... (more)
Key Papers in Literature and Psychoanalysis
Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams, psychoanalysis and literature have had a fruitful if often distrusting... (more)
Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis
In her earlier books, Susan Kavaler-Adler identified healthy mourning for traumas and life changes as an essential aspect of successful analysis, and drew the distinction between a healthy... (more)