Psychoanalysis Books
Fairbairn and Relational Theory
The richness of Fairbairn's work is demonstrated in a series of essays offering a unique exploration of the application of his concepts to diverse areas ranging from philosophy to psychopathology.... (more)
Freud's Technique Papers: A Contemporary Perspective
This landmark book is a brilliant commentary on Freud's psychoanalytic technique and how it is incorporated in contemporary clinical practice. Freud's basic technique papers are included, so that the... (more)
Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children
James M. Herzog's Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children will quickly take its place both as a landmark contribution to developmental psychology and as an enduring classic in the... (more)
The Clinical Exchange: Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems
This text offers ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. They integrate the findings of self psychology with developmental research that has refined understanding of the self as a... (more)
Trauma: Culture, Meaning and Philosophy
This volume argues that there are serious problems inherent in contemporary conceptualizations of how people react to trauma and the therapeutic responses developed. Drawing on anthropology,... (more)
Reflecting Psychoanalysis: Narrative and Resolve in the Psychoanalytic Experience
Acknowledging the influence of such thinkers as Bion, Winnicott, Lacan and Ricour Jurgen Reeder charts his own course in this 'exploration into my own standpoints'.
At the heart of this book is... (more)
The Pale Criminal: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
It was Freud, borrowing Nietszche's phrase from Thus Spake Zarathustra, who described as 'pale criminals' those who committed criminal acts out of deep-lying (unconscious) guilt. The focus of this... (more)
The Portable Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. (more)
In the Analyst's Consulting Room
From the standpoint of the 'analytic field', Ferro explores basic psychoanalytic concepts, such as criteria for analysability and ending the analysis, transformations that occur during the session,... (more)
Outcomes of Psychoanalytic Treatment: Perspectives for Therapists and Researchers
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical psychotherapy remain an unparalleled source of insights into the unconscious determinants and dimensions of psychological suffering. This volume presents the... (more)
The Trauma of Freud: Controversies in Psychoanalysis
Despite its aloofness from ethical questions, psychoanalysis has attracted to itself an extraordinary degree of sectarian bitterness. Original thinkers have become condemned as dissidents. This title... (more)
Reason and Unreason: Psychoanalysis, Science and Politics
This work explores the justification and legitimacy of psychoanalytic knowledge, and its relevance to political and social questions. Part one explores the achievements of British psychoanalytic... (more)
Screen memories: Hollywood cinema on the psychoanalytic couch
This study explores the psychological aspects of film characters in mainstream American movies, ranging from "Casablanca" to "Rambo". Emphasis is placed on the personalities, conflicts and... (more)
Pluralism in Self Psychology: Progress in Self Psychology: Vol. 15
This text conveys the rich pluralism of contemporary self psychology with respect to a central theoretical and clinical issue: the nature of the self and the manner in which is can best be studied.... (more)
The Freudian Subject
This book presents a new study of the key Freudian texts in which the author examines the relation between identification and desire, between desire and violence and between identification and object... (more)
Transference and transcendence:
This is an exploration of the work of Ernest Becker. It particularly looks at those insights that are applicable to the practice of psychotherapy and psychological and pastoral counselling. Becker's... (more)
How Responsive Should We Be?: Progress in Self Psychology: Vol. 16
Volume 16 of Progress in Self Psychology, How Responsive Should We Be, illuminates the continuing tension between Kohut's emphasis on the patient's subjective experience and the post-Kohutian... (more)
The Mark of Cain: Psychoanalytic insight and the Psychopath
This work covers topics such as the phallic-narcissistic character, treatment, risk management and psychodiagnosis, and the response aroused by the psychopath. Other issues include the antisocial... (more)
The Dimensions of Dreams: The Nature, Function and Interpretation of Dreams
One encyclopaedic volume of the vast knowedge modern science has been able to amass abou the world of dreams since Freud first published his groundbreaking Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. 431 pages. (more)
Primitive Experiences of Loss: Working with the Paranoid-Schizoid Patient
Taking as his starting point Melanie Klein's concept of the paranoid-schizoid position, and succinctly reviewing subsequent developments within the Kleinian perspective, Robert T. Waska formulates a... (more)
The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique
Analyzes the profound effects of the Holocaust devastation on the lives of the children of survivors as well as the children of Nazi leaders. (more)
Imagination and Reality: Psychoanalytical Essays 1951-1961
A collection of essays, introduced by Masud Khan and J.D. Sutherland, on a variety of subjects including: observations on a case of vertigo; on idealization, illusion, and catastrophic disillusion;... (more)