Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Analyst of the Imagination: The Life and Work of Charles Rycroft
Charles Rycroft's lucid jargon-free approach to psychoanalysis inspired a whole generation. Taking inspiration from many fields outside psychoanalysis, including history, literature, linguistics 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)
Words That Touch: A Psychoanalyst Learns to Speak
In her attempt to find the words that touch, Danielle Quinodoz gives a succession of illuminating examples to indicate what a psychoanalyst and her patient may experience in the transference... (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)
No Ordinary Psychoanalyst: The Exceptional Contributions of John Rickman
John Rickman had a deep impact on psychoanalysis, combining a deep knowledge thereof with an avid interest in social psychology, to the benefit of both. He was a fresh thinker, always innovative,... (more)
The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis
'Coles' book starts from the claim that traditionally psychoanalysis, in stressing the relations of conflict between children and parents, has tended to overlook and displace the co-operative... (more)
Time Present and Time Past
This remarkable collection of papers is divided into three sections: clinical issues; psychoanalysis and the life cycle; and underlying theories of practice. The papers span the years 1951 to 2004,... (more)
Supervisions with Donald Meltzer: The Simsbury Seminars
'We see ourselves as elders, not only in age but in the tradition of a nostalgia for the fora where professionals, craftsmen, workers of all kinds meet to share tools, knowledge, skills, and... (more)
Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis
Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Paranormal: Lands of Darkness
'The space of the paranormal can indeed be frightening. But psychoanalysis specializes in entering and tolerating frightening spaces. Why should this one be an exception?'
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Psychic Hooks and Bolts: Psychoanalytic Work with Children Under Five and their Families
'In this book it is made plain that complex and powerful understanding can take place in brief work. The baby's development is carried forward, the family re-groups differently, and understanding... (more)
Lesbian lives: Psychoanalytic narratives old and new
This text focuses on developmental and psychological consequences of identifying as homosexual and having lesbian relationships. It covers: lesbian adolescents; "coming out"; interaction of... (more)
The dream frontier
This work contains topics such as vectors of dream interpretation, homonyms and other word play in dreams, what dreams can tell us about the brain, and how to analyze dreams. (more)
The Vitality of Objects: Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas
This collection of essays reflects the far-reaching, multi-dimensional influence of Christopher Bollas. Bollas galvanises our understanding of what happens when people encounter the objects - the... (more)
Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume 2: Crypto-Fetishism
In this second volume, Rickels demonstates the surprising degree to which the Nazi moral system parallels that of psychoanalysis, particularly in thier common projection and protection of... (more)
Learning From Our Mistakes: Beyond Dogma in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This text examines some of the problems that are inherent to psychoanalysis, particularly in view of the analyst's claim to know the patient's mind better than the patient, which can blind the... (more)
Borderline Welfare: Feeling and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare
Which ‘forms of feeling’ are facilitated and which discouraged within the cultures and structures of modern state welfare? This book illuminates the social and psychic dynamics of these new public... (more)
Masculine Scenarios
'Human identity, sexual identity, primary and secondary identification, object choice, narcissism - all of these lie on a continuum with homosexuality, transsexualism, transvestism, heterosexuality... (more)
Studies on Femininity
Studies on Feminity is the second volume in a unique series edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical... (more)
The Embodied Female
The Embodied Female is the first volume of this series edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association. This book... (more)
The Elusive Child
'Fuelled by agitation and panic about paedophilia, child abuse, violence and neglect on the one side, and by children as violent murderers and killers on the other, there has been an explosion of... (more)