Psychoanalysis Books
Problems of Human Pleasure and Behaviour
A collection of papers concerning the Individual and the Community, Clinical Problems and Men and Their Ideas. (more)
Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self-Experience
Shows how each person unconsciously invests the ordinary objects of life with particular and private meaning. As each person subsequently voyages through the environment he encounters objects that... (more)
Primary Love and Psychoanalytic Technique
One of the eternal problems of mankind is that of love and hate. Why and how does it happen that we love this one of our fellow-men, feel safe in his affection, expect satisfactions of our needs... (more)
Ego Psychology: Theory and Practice
Newly revised and updated textbook of ego psychology. (more)
Extending Horizons: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents and Families
Extending Horizons presents a wide-ranging collection of papers by leading practitioners in the field of analytic psychotherapy with children and young people, surveying recent developments in... (more)
Brazilian Lectures: a1973, Sao Paulo; 1974, Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo
These lectures, delivered in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during 1973 and 1974, reveal Bion in his most vital and challenging mode both in respect of the material he presents, and in his responses to... (more)
Two Papers: 'The Grid' and 'Caesura'
The Grid, an instrument devised by Bion to help the analyst record and elaborate observations arising from the analytic encounter, demonstrates how mathematics can be applied to locate the... (more)
The place of reality in psychoanalytic theory and technique
Freud's psychoanalysis has grown into a theory of mind that elucidates the nature of reality for each individual. In this book, psychoanalysts explore the experience and construction of individual... (more)
Dimensions of Psychoanalysis: A Selection of Papers Presented at the Freud Memorial Lectures
Dimensions of Psychoanalysis contains a selection of the Freud Memorial Lectures delivered by eminent British, French and American analysts at University College in the University of London. Together... (more)
The Psychotic: Aspects of the Personality
The Psychotic: Aspects of the Personality presents the results of Dr David Rosenfeld's many years of experience as an analyst working with deeply disturbed or psychotic patients, and demonstrates how... (more)
Sincerity and Other Works: Collected Papers of Donald Meltzer
Among the subjects this volume touches on are adult psychopathology, psychoanalytic technique, developmental theory, the training of psychoanalysts, child and adolescent psychopathology, and the... (more)
The Internal Mother: Conceptual and Technical Aspects of Object Constancy
This work analyses the concept of object constancy in the light of developmental research and clinical practice. The clinical implications of disturbances in object constancy are discussed, with... (more)
The Inner World and Joan Riviere: 29687Collected Papers 1929 - 1958
Although best known as a disseminator of Freudian and Kleinian ideas, Joan Riviere also contributed important and original material to the body of psychoanalytic literature. This volume presents some... (more)
Countertransference: Theory, Technique, Teaching
A collection of papers on the Oedipus complex, divided into three parts: theory, practice and supervision. The contributors, who include Joyce McDougall, Hanna Segal, Otto Kernberg and Leon Grinberg,... (more)
Shadow Lines: Austrian Literature from Freud to Kafka
Intellectual culture in early twentieth-century Austria reached levels of originality and excellence that have rarely been equalled before or since. Shadow Lines examines works by major novelists,... (more)
Essential Papers on Borderline Disorders: 100 Years at the Border
A broad cross-section of essays examining all facets of borderline disorders.
Essential Papers on Dreams
This collection traces the history of psychoanalytically informed thinking about dreams, using selected contributions from Freud to the present to highlight both the legacy of The Interpretation of... (more)
Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions
Delves into the posthumous disputes over Freud. With wit and erudition, Forrester tackles questions central to our psychoanalytic century's way of thinking and living. 320 pages. (more)
Back to Freud's Texts: Making Silent Documents Speak
Examining and deciphering Freud's original manuscripts, this work analyzes Freud's method of working. The text points out what the writings reveal about Freud's psychological states, the events in... (more)
Essential Papers on Object Loss
This choice collection contains some of the most significant contributions to psychoanalytic and psychological understandingof the effect of object loss on adults and children. Designed for... (more)
Essential Papers on Depression
Essential Papers on Depression gathers the classic articles on the subject of depression. It includes pieces by such core figures as Karl Abraham, Sigmund Freud, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Martin E. P.... (more)
