Psychoanalysis Books
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)
The Power of the inner judge: The Psychodynamic treatment of severe neuroses
This work argues that the intensive conflicts and anxieties characteristic of the severe neuroses can be approached analytically: and this can be tailored to allow for such modifications as... (more)
Brothers and Sisters: Developmental, Dynamic, and Technical Aspects of the Sibling Relationship
Sibling relationships and rivalry are as old as recorded history. This analysis explores that ambivalence between siblings, which casts its shadow throughout people's lifetimes and affects their... (more)
Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society
This work presents an attempt to elucidate and develop Bettelheim's controversial insights on the behaviour of concentration camp inmates. A discussion of the significance of Bettelheim's findings... (more)
Personality Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
A comprehensive overview of personality development, beginning in utero and covering the period up to early adulthood. It focuses on each stage of development and covers areas such as the Oedipus... (more)
The Mystery of Things
A philosophical reflection on the paradox of the psychoanalytical process, which objectifies psychic life through the deep subjectivity of its two engaged participants - a mysterious encounter which... (more)
The Savage God: A Study in Suicide
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Rewriting the self: Histories from the Middle Ages to the present
This work is an exploration of ideas of the self, in the western cultural tradition, from the Renaissance to the present. Based on a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in... (more)
Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy
Despite the popularity of object relations theories, these theories are often abstract, with the relation between theory and clinical technique left vague and unclear. Now, in Transcending the Self:... (more)
That obscure subject of desire: Freud's female homosexual revisited
An interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading scholars commenting on the significance of Freud's largely forgotten case study, 'Psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in a woman.' The book... (more)
Lay analysis: Life inside the controversy
Chronicles the almost century-long struggle within organized psychoanalysis over the issue of lay analysis that divided the psychoanalytic world, and impacted every aspect of psychoanalysis including... (more)
On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind
Providing guidance on how the analyst can encourage the patient to communicate the quality of their often intolerably painful states of mind, this text looks at how he/she can interpret these states,... (more)
Psychoanalysis on the Move: The Work of Joseph Sandler
A comprehensive overview of Joseph Sandler's contribution to the development of psychoanalysis. This book traces the development of the main themes and achievements of Sandler's work, in particular... (more)
Freud, psychoanalysis and symbolism:
This work offers a general theory of symbolism, derived from Freud's psychoanalytic theory and relocated within mainstream scientific psychology. It presents a development of Freud's treatment of... (more)
A psychoanalysis for our time: Exploring the blindness of the seeing I
Psychoanalysis has profound relevance for our troubled time. The author steers a course between Freud's followers and dissenters and shows both the strengths and weaknesses of modern psychoanalysis.... (more)
Essential Papers on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This work collects the most important writings on the comprehension and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Editor Mardi J. Horowitz provides a concise and illuminating introductory essay on... (more)
Rethinking Clinical Technique
This text addresses the issue of whether it is possible to think clearly about clinical technique in an era of fluidity and change. Using clinical examples, the author offers an approach to clinical... (more)
The Destructive Narcissistic Pattern
This text describes a constellation of characteristics generally associated with pathological narcissism, but which are fewer and less severe. Nonetheless, these characteristics negatively impact... (more)
Building Bridges: The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis
This work gives recognition to the central place of negotiation in the analytic relationship and therapeutic process, and in psychoanalytic development and clinical theory. It examines how analyst... (more)
Adolescence and Psychoanalysis: The Story and the History
This collection of classic and contemporary essays makes a major contribution to the reassessment of psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adults.
Contributors:
Peter Blos, Raymond...
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Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism
Offers a broad-ranging perspective of the contemporary debates surrounding social constructionist perspectives in psychology. The contributors map connections between theory, method, and politics in... (more)
The Analyst's Preconscious
How do the analyst's consciously held theoretical commitments intersect with the actual conduct of analysis? This text explores this question, revolving around in-depth interviews with 65 analysts in... (more)
The World of Self Psychology: Progress in Self Psychology: Vol. 14
Volume 14 of Progress in Self Psychology, The World of Self Psychology, introduces a valuable new section to the series: publication of noteworthy material from the Kohut Archives of the Chicago... (more)
The sovereign self: toward a phenomenology of self experience:
This work contends that a human being cannot thrive unless his social group acknowledges and values his intrinsic authentic self. Individuals denied such acknowledgement will fill the resulting void... (more)
The Privacy of the Self
The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of Masud Khan's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work. He was nurtured in the tradition of Anna Freud,... (more)
The Facilitating Partnership: A Winnicottian Approach for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
This text concentrates on key Winnicottian concepts that are suited to agency-based social work-practice with people whose psychological well-being has been compromised by acute disruption or trauma,... (more)