Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Freud in the Pampas: The emergence and development of a psychoanalytic culture in Argentina, 1910- 1983
This is a history of how psychoanalysis became an essential element of Argentine culture. The book reveals the unique conditions and historical process that made this possible and shows why the... (more)
Freud: A Very Short Introduction
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis, Freud developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology which became... (more)
Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity
An analysis of relationality, from attachment to intersubjectivity. Topics covered include: the psychoanalytic vision of Hans Loewald; attachment theory and relationality; Fairbairn's theory of... (more)
Looking for ground: Countertransference, epistemology, and the problem of value
This work explores countertransference, epistemology, and the problem of value. It covers: Freud's beginnings; gratification, virtue, and the therapeutic process; reality testing and the pleasure... (more)
Dreaming and Thinking
This book includes papers on the dream space and countertransference, the dream space, the analytic situation and eating disorders, dreams of borderline patients and the 'oracle' in dreams: the past... (more)
Imprisoned Pain and Its Transformation
This book is a festschrift for Sydney Klein, an eminent British Psychoanalyst whose work on such topics as children, groups, psychosomatic illness, delinquent perversions, manic states, and autistic... (more)
Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide
The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite... (more)
Psychoanalytic Conversations: Interviews with Clinicians, Commentators, and Critics
In this study, Peter Rudnytsky presents ten substantive and provocative interviews with leading analysts (Enid Balint, Charles Rycroft, Stephen A. Mitchell, Roy Schafer, Jessica Benjamin), with... (more)
Ordinary People and Extra-ordinary Protections: A Post-Kleinian Approach to the Treatment of Primitive Mental States
This text investigates the development and function of "extra-ordinary protections", created to keep at bay any awareness of deeply traumatic happenings occurring at some point in life. The study... (more)
On moving and being moved: Non-verbal behavior in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This work examines non-verbal behaviour in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and covers topics such as: talking and acting; attunement; temperament, interaction and self; and the body. (more)
Nocturnes: Reflections on dreams and psychoanalysis
A series of reflections on dreams and psychoanalysis. Chapters examine: wishes and dreams; dreams from the dawn of time; a naturalist approach; dream disguise; where do dreams come from?; the private... (more)
Personalities: Master Clinicians Confront the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorders
Thirteen experts, known for their treatment of severe personality disorders, come together in this book to discuss their work. Representing all the major approaches to the treatment of borderline... (more)
Changing Conceptions of Psychoanalysis: The legacy of Merton M
This text contains essays on psychoanalysis collected together to celebrate the work of Merton M. Gill. (more)
Attachment and adult psychotherapy
This work offers an understanding of key attachment concepts to psychotherapy with adults. Treating different forms of emotional disturbances from this perspective, Dr Sable illustrates how... (more)
Psychoanalyses/Feminisms
Probes the complementary yet contested relations between psychoanalysis and feminism, emphasizing the plural nature of each.
Bringing together twelve provocative and iconoclastic contributions by... (more)
Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision
This work investigates one of the most controversial, yet influential figures in recent history. Sigmund Freud - the enigmatic founder of psychoanalysis - is analyzed through the myths he developed... (more)
Attachment Research and Psychoanalysis: Part 1: Theoretical Considerations (Psychoanalytic Inquiry)
Considers the clinical aspects of attachment research and psychoanalysis. Topics covered include attachment theory's contribution to the understanding of affective functioning in psychoanalysis, and... (more)
