Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalytic clinical practice
The author selects and presents eighteen of his most salient clinical papers and draws on his forty years of clinical experience to discuss the factors which he feels have the potential to bring... (more)
The Edge of Experience: Borderline and Psychosomatic Patients in Clinical Practice
Traditionally, the development of psychoanalysis has been based on the study of 'neurotic' patients, for the most part displaying classic symptoms of hysteria, obsessive-compulsion and depression.... (more)
The therapeutic process: Essays and lectures
This volume of essays provides a record of Karen Horney's ideas about the therapeutic process. She discusses countertransference phenomena and the ways in which a therapist's personality can... (more)
The Pre-Psychoanalytic Writings of Sigmund Freud
The traditional dating of the origin of psychoanalysis to 1900, when Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, ignores the massive body of work he produced well before this date. Covering fields... (more)
Psychoanalysis: The Major Concepts
New in paperback. A survey of current psychoanalytic theory and a discussion of its principles, technical aspects, clinical phenomena and applications. It should be useful both as an introduction to... (more)
Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
This is a critique of Freud's work, tracing its political content and context from his early writings to his late essays. It shows that when read politically Freud's discourse can be seen to unite... (more)
Freud and the institution of psychoanalytic knowledge:
Through an examination of Freud's writings on culture, psychoanalytic technique and the history of the psychoanalytic movement, this book offers a cultural history of the strategies Freud employed to... (more)
The Ferenczi-Groddeck Correspondence 1921-1933
A volume of the correspondence between Ferenczi and Groddeck, two psychoanalysts within the circle of Sigmund Freud. The letters bear witness to the friendship between the two men and reflect the... (more)
Woodrow Wilson: a psychological study:
330 pages. (more)
Dreams and Emotional Adaptation: A Clinical Notebook for Psychotherapists
In this groundbreaking book, Dr Langs invites you into his world. With this invitation comes a new understanding of dreams and the insights they hold. It offers an innovative method of attending to... (more)
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi: Volume 3: 1920-1933
This third and final volume of the correspondence between the founder of psychoanalysis and one of his most colourful disciples beings to a closer Sandor Ferenczi's and the story of one of the most... (more)
Heinz Kohut: The Chicago Institute Lectures
Delivered to advanced candidates at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. 432 pages. (more)
Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma and Dissociation
These collected papers constitute the unfolding of a clinical perspective - a series of reflections on the analytical relationship with its own implicit order, its own progression of ideas and its... (more)
Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
This volume brings together 14 papers by interpersonal pioneers. Collectively, they demonstrate the coherence and explanatory richness of interpersonal psychoanalysis, emphasizing relational patterns... (more)
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
A timely reprint of this classc work that was composed when Schreber, a distinguished German jurist, was confined to a mental hospital. It describes his world as an enormous architecture of nerves,... (more)
Terrifying transferences
This work shows therapists how to understand the process of trauma recreation. It discusses how to move with the client through the re- experiencing of the physical pain or the psychological terror,... (more)
Freudian repression: Conversation creating the unconscious
This work presents a reformulation of Freud's concept of repression, showing that in his theory of the unconscious he fails to examine how people actually repress shameful thoughts. Drawing on... (more)
Women as therapists: A multitheoretical casebook
This book aims to advance the understanding of women who bring to their work as therapists the empathy and caring that are the cornerstone of successful treatment, regardless of their theoretical... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 1: The Emergence of a Tradition
A collection of papers by authors within the recent psychoanalytical trend towards models of mind and development grounded in object relations concepts. Introductions place each paper in its... (more)
Kohut's Freudian vision:
Interest in Kohut's work is now centred around self psychology. Prior to this, he was better known for his interpretations of Freudian theory. The author describes Kohut's approach to Freudian theory... (more)
Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
From the unfaithful husband to the binge eater, from the secret cross-dresser to the pilferer of worthless items, there are those who seem to live two lives, to be divided selves, to be literally of... (more)
Freudian Analysts / Feminist Issues
In this book Judith M. Hughes makes a highly original case for conceptualizing gender identity as potentially multiple. She does so by situating her argument within the history of psychoanalysis.... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theories of Affect
An attempt to collate and clarify psychoanalytic theories on affect, and how they relate to the clinical process. Stein outlines and analyses the most important theories on affect, and examines... (more)
Freud - Political and social thought
Sigmund Freud had broad ambitions about what psychoanalysis could add to human thought, but Freud's own writings have rarely been assessed within the perspective of political philosophy. This work... (more)
The Uninvited Guest: Emerging from Narcissism towards Marriage
A fascinating and imaginative book combining psychoanalytic theory and literature - in particular classic plays about marriage and married couples - to help couples therapists as they piece together... (more)
Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care: Effectiveness and Economics in the 21st Century
In this book, a timely and trenchant consideration of the clash of values between managed care and psychoanalysis, contributors elaborate a thoughtful defense of the therapeutic necessity and social... (more)
Humor and psyche: psychoanalytic perspectives:
The essays in this volume address the role of humour in clinical work, in creativity, and in life in general. The aim of the book is to guide the clinician toward a thoughtful and judicious... (more)
Love and attachment: contemporary issues and treatment considerations:
This work focuses on love and attachment in all of its permutations, and on the barriers that exist to achieving closeness. The specific social groups addressed include gender, class, race and... (more)