Psychoanalysis Books
Attachment Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process
Attachment theory, the brainchild of child psychiatrist and psychoanalysis John Bowlby, has begun to have a worldwide impact among clinicians who are taking the attachment theory and research... (more)
Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory
This is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer... (more)
Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer
Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer is a critical survey of Donald Meltzer's central themes which simultaneously focuses on the most important concepts of his work. This detailed volume should... (more)
Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence
Following the attacks of September 11th 2001, one of the resounding questions asked was "What would make anyone do such a thing?" The psychological mentality of the suicidal terrorist left a gaping... (more)
Love and Hate: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Love and hate seem to be the dominant emotions that make the world go round and are a central theme in psychotherapy. "Love and Hate" explores the origins of love and hate from infancy and how they... (more)
Constructing and Deconstructing Woman's Power
Constructing and Deconstructing Woman’s Power explores power and gender issues from a variety of psychoanalytic, as well as social, cultural and philosophical perspectives. The first three papers... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Children and Adults: Meltzer in Barcelona
This volume is a collection of seminars and lectures Donald Meltzer gave to the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona under Dr Leon Grinberg, and later Dr Benito Lopez, during his visit to Barcelona. The... (more)
Phobia: A Reassessment
This volume in the seminal Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis Series is a daring reassessment of the psychoanalytic theory of phobia from numerous schools of thought.
This book should illuminate... (more)
Dilemmas in the Consulting Room
Every therapist is faced with dilemmas in the consulting room. While psychoanalysis has concentrated on the issues of theory and technique, there has not been much material available on the actual... (more)
Mirror to Nature: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society
This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and... (more)
The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and The Administration of Enjoyment
Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how... (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)
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)
The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-Evaluation
It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish. However, many changes have occurred in society which have changed the traditional... (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)
