Psychoanalysis Books
Freud, psychoanalysis, social theory: the unfulfilled promise
Freud, Psychoanalysis, Social Theory explores the parallel decline of psychoanalysis which, as psychoanalysts themselves testify, has lost its position as a vital source for innovative cultural... (more)
The Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy
In recent decades, attachment theory has gained widespread interest and acceptance. However the relevance of attachment theory to clinical practice has never been clear. With Search for the Secure... (more)
The Spirit of Sanity
A rare and unusual consideration of the spiritual dimensions of sanity from a psychoanalytic perspective, this transcription of a series of seven lectures delivered at the Tavistock Clinic capture... (more)
Freud and Judaism
After first having been denied, the Jewish element in the works of Freud has been variously studied from many different points of view.
In this wide-ranging collection, there can be found... (more)
Anxiety as Symptom and Signal
These papers consider the many levels of meaning of "anxiety" and the ways anxiety functions in the analytic process. (more)
Attachment and Intersubjectivity
This book focuses on the understanding of the epistemological roots of attachment theory, conceptualised as a psychoanalytic paradigm, which highlights movement away from a 'one-person psychology' to... (more)
Winnicott Studies. No 11
The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application. (more)
Winnicott Studies. No 6
The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application. (more)
The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis
In The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis, Arnold Goldberg trains a searching, critical eye on his own profession. His subject matter is the system of interlocking constraints - theoretical,... (more)
Are you considering psychoanalysis?:
Explains the nature, schools, procedures, and goals of psychoanalysis to assi the prospective patient in understanding, accepting, and successfully experiencing the therapeutic process. (more)
Participant observation: The psychotherapy schools in action
Describes the unique features of participant observation psychotherapy. The book also compares and contrasts the Sullivan methods with classical psychoanalysis, existential psychotherapy and... (more)
Psycho-Analytic Object Relations Therapy
Written for the student and beginner, this book explains the basic clinical concepts, practices and principles of psychoanalytic object relations therapy. Basic concepts, technical considerations in... (more)
The Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy
An introduction to the practice of analytic therapy. This text deals with the basic phenomena of therapy: transference, unconscious fantasy, character and regression. (more)
Borderline Patients, the Psychosomatic Focus, and the Therapeutic Process
Discusses the psychotherapy of patients in the borderline spectrum, as well as those suffering from psychosomatic problems. The author emphasizes the importance of the holding environment and of... (more)
The Theatre of the Dream
The Theatre of the Dream is a profound study of our dream world and its place in everyday life. The author grounds his ideas in Freud and psychoanalyst authors such as Klein, Bion, Rosenfeld and... (more)
The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective
Why is it that victims of abuse so often become perpetrators, and what can psychoanalysis offer to these survivor-perpetrators, whose criminal conduct seems to transcend the possibilities of empathic... (more)
The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture.
New in paperback. The author of this text claims that psychoanalysis offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility, insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of good... (more)
Transformations: Countertransference during the psychoanalytic treatment of incest, real and imagined
In this study, Elaine Siegel discloses the countertransferential ruminations and associations with the occurrence of incest at various stages during the treatment process over the course of 30 years... (more)
Houdini's Box: The Art of Escape
This explores the lives of four different escape artists: a little girl playing her own wayward version of hide and seek; Harry Houdini who electrifies the world through a series of escapes; a man... (more)
Elaborate Selves: Reflections and Reveries of Christopher Bollas, Michael Eigen, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Samuel and Evelyn Laeuchli, and Marie Coleman Nelson
In this fascinating volume, Anthony Molino interviews some of today's foremost thinkers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Organized around the fertile and controversial concept of multiplicity,... (more)
Disorders of the Self: New Therapeutic Horizons - The Masterson Approach
In this incisive new volume, the study and treatment of the disorders of the self have been carried forward by Dr James Masterson and his students, who have now become his colleagues. It addresses... (more)
The Patient's Impact on the Analyst
The question of how psychoanalysts are affected by their patients is of perennial interest. The author of this book explores the issue on the basis of a research project that obtained data from 399... (more)
Logics of the Mind: A Clinical View
This collection of papers, spanning the last 15 years, presents a spirited defence of Freud's clinical method, considering the "crisis of psychoanalysis" in the wider context of a crisis of... (more)
Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
According to the popular imagination, psychoanalysis is about men wanting to sleep with their mothers and women wanting penises. This book tells a different story about what has happened to sex in... (more)
Art, Creativity, Living
This volume in the Winnicott Studies series is dedicated to the life and work of Marion Milner and reflects, in varying ways, her unique use of Winnicott's work to shape her own thinking about art... (more)
Psycho/Analytic Psychotherapy Trainings: A Guide
This title explores the evolutionary history of training in psychotherapy, the institutions they came from, and the main ideas that supported them. It also explores the professionalization of... (more)
Freud revisited: Psychoanalytic themes in the postmodern age
This work examines some of Freud's themes considered relevent today: psychoanalysis as a form of narrative construction, the creative nature of memory, the revolutionary nature of the knowledge... (more)