Psychoanalysis Books
Primitive Mental States: Volume 1: Across the Lifespan
Primitive mental states are often described in paradoxical terms - as both fundamental and complex. This first volume in an annual series contains contributions from experts in many fields, and seeks... (more)
Nevermore: the hymen and the loss of virginity
Focusing on the loss of virginity, this text looks at examples from myths, literature, and the clinical practice of the authors. It demonstrates the importance of this milestone in understanding the... (more)
Female subjects in black and white: Race, psychoanalysis, feminism
Focusing on the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation, the essays in this collection question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories,... (more)
Soul on the Couch
This book is premised on the belief that discourse about the soul and discourse from the couch should inform - and not simply ignore - one another. The book brings together scholars and analysts at... (more)
Ego States: Theory and Therapy
Ego states are parts of our personality causing us to act in different ways in different situations. This book integrates psychoanalytic practice and hypno-analytic techniques, in order to discover... (more)
Sexual Subjects: Lesbians, Gender and Psychoanalysis
A theoretical book, seasoned with clinical anecdotes to make the theory come alive, the author questions the construction of certain categories of identity and reference: 'woman', 'feminine',... (more)
Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis
A discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an 'other' - other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one... (more)
Early Freud and Late Freud
The author examines 'Studies on Hysteria' and 'Moses and Monotheism'. She argues that the former introduces the key element of trauma, upon which much of modern psychonalysis has been built, and that... (more)
Therapy or Coercion: Does Psychoanalysis Differ from Brainwashing?
This book questions whether 'autonomy' is a pivotal psychotherapeutic value. Basing his discussion upon the key Kleinian concept of 'projective identification', the author argues that 'integration'... (more)
Judaism and Psychoanalysis
Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth... (more)
Taming Wild Thoughts
.Taming Wild Thoughts brings together previously unpublished works from two different periods of Bion's life which are linked, as Parthenope Bion Talamo says in her introduction, by the concept of... (more)
Psychotherapy in the Third Reich (Second Revised and Expanded edition)
A revised and expanded edition of this classic text detailing the activities of the notorious Goring Institute. Included is more information on the history of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Nazi... (more)
Encounters with Autistic States: A Memorial Tribute to Frances Tustin
This text presents the work of 21 eminent psychoanalysts and child therapists from three continents. Each explores and expands upon the work of the late Frances Tustin, which was devoted to a... (more)
Affects as process
Hardback, 292 pages.
Basic Ideas Reconsidered: Progress in Self Psychology: Vol. 12
Volume 12 of the Progress in Self Psychology series begins with reassessments of frustration and responsiveness, optimal and otherwise, by MacIsaac, Bacal and Thomson, the Shanes, and Doctors. The... (more)
Learning from Kohut: Progress in Self-Psychology: Vol. 4
The fourth volume in the Progress in Self Psychology series continues to explore the theoretical yield and clinical implications of the wok of the late Heinz Kohut. Learning from Kohut features... (more)
The Impact of New Ideas: Progress in Self Psychology: Vol. 11
This volume begins with a timely assessment of self psychology and intersubjectivity theory, with original contributions by Carveth, Trop, and Powell, and a critical commentary by P. Ornstein.... (more)
A Fresh Look at Psychoanalysis: The View from Self Psychology
Arnold Goldberg uses the questions posed by self psychology as point of entry to a thoughtful consideration of issues with which every clinician wrestles: the scientific status analysis, the... (more)
The Therapeutic Alliance
One point on which the various helping professions agree is that the crucial factor for success of therapy is the therapeutic alliance - the collaborative relationship a therapist forms with a... (more)
Adaptation to Life
George Vaillant discusses these and other questions in terms of a clearly defined scheme of "adaptive mechanisms" that are rated mature, neurotic, immature, or psychotic, and illustrates, with case... (more)
Narrative Of A Child Analysis
Klein provides the reader with a picture of her work with ten-year-old Richard. Keeping notes of each session, she was able to describe the day-to-day course of the analysis, interpreting Richard's... (more)
Erik H. Erikson: The power and limits of a vision
In his quest for what is enduring in psychoanalysis, Roazen turns to Erik H. Erikson. This examination of his contributions to the literature - among them the concepts of identity, life cycle and the... (more)
The Seasons of Life: Separation-Individuation Perspectives
This work shows how, in applying Margaret Mahler's developmental framework to the life-cycle, the separation-individuation process continues, even after a degree of self and object constancy has been... (more)
Ultimate Intimacy: The Psychodynamics of Jewish Mysticism
With contributions and comments from a range of distinguished Biblical scholars, this work fulfills Mortimer Ostow's promise to unite psychoanalysis and the study of the Kabbalah. Ranging over both... (more)
Death Anxiety and Clinical Practice
Robert Langs argues that death anxiety is neglected - in part, because of treatment failures due to countertransference interferences during treatment. He then discusses the technical issues... (more)
Ending Analysis: Theory and Technique
This book, beyond dealing with the theoretical and technical questions concerning the termination of analysis, gives a picture of the particular nature of the psychoanalytic cure in relation to the... (more)
Life and how to survive it
This text seeks to act as a "map" to guide people through their everyday lives and help them retain their individuality while co- operating in joint endeavours. It also explores the nature of... (more)
Techniques of Adlerian Psychology
This text presents a collection of classic and recent papers reprinted from the Journal of Individual Psychology and Individual Psychology, representing the purpose, methods, and spirit of techniques... (more)
History of the Division of Psychoanalysis
The formation of the Division of Psychoanalysis in 1979 had as a major goal a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and psychology. This volume records the history of the Division and the seminal... (more)