Psychoanalysis Books
Substance abuse as symptom: A Psychoanalytic critique of treatment approaches and the cultural beliefs that sustain them
A psychoanalytic study of the unconscious motivations surrounding drug abuse and society's response to it. (more)
Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry
Over a period of several decades, D.W. Winnicott evolved a personal way of relating to and communicating with children, offering them a live professional setting in which to discover themselves. He... (more)
The Piggle: The Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl
On 16 occasions, from the age of two until the age of five, 'the Piggle' - a little girl seriously disturbed by the birth of a younger sister - visited Dr Winnincott. This is an account of her... (more)
Tradition and Change in Psychoanalysis
This book traces a line of continuity in psychoanalysis back to Freud and his immediate followers, and describes the major transformations that followed, particularly in the works of Heinz Hartmann... (more)
The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
Starting with exorcists, magnetists, and hypnotists, it ends with revealing examinations of the work of Freud and Jung.
Useful servants: Psychodynamic approaches to clinical practice
This guide to psychodynamic psychotherapies covers clinical approaches and theoretical conceptualizations. It maps out the ideas of Freud, Anna Freud, Hartmann, Klein, Winnicott, Mahler, Kernberg,... (more)
Developments in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a science evidently fore-ordained to growth and expansion, and among those who have extended the scope of both theory and practice Melanie Klein holds a unique place.
This book... (more)
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
When The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense was first published in German in 1936 it was at once recognized as a major contribution to psychoanalytic psychology, and its translation into English... (more)
New Directions in Psychoanalysis: The Significance of Infant Conflict in the Pattern of Adult Behaviour
Melanie Klein's contribution to psycho-analysis is centered on her exploration into the early stages of the mental development of the child, which she began while a pupil of Karl Abraham. Taking as... (more)
The Spontaneous Gesture: Selected Letters of D.W. Winnicott
This volume consists of the collected letters of D. W. Winnicott, a central figure in British psychoanalysis in the generation following Freud. Suspicious of dogma and deeply committed to the value... (more)
Sandor Ferenczi: Reconsidering Active Intervention
A re-examination of Ferenczi's controversial theories. Ferenczi has found some favour in modern times among the followers of Jacques Lacan as well as among relational psychoanalysts in the United... (more)
Developmental Theory and Clinical Process
Covering child development, child observation, clinical process and theory, and touching on classical psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, this work shows how the perspectives of... (more)
Clinical Papers and Essays on Psychoanalysis
This is the second volume of the works of Karl Abraham, whose Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis is one of the most widely read and highly valued classics on the subject. The first part of this book... (more)
Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
Covering a wide range of topics, the collection consists of twenty-six papers and essays published over a period of two decades. Readers of this book are thus enabled to trace the analyst's... (more)
The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham 1907-1925
Karl Abraham was an important and influential early member of Freud's inner circle of trusted colleagues. As such, he played a significant part in the establishment of psychoanalysis as a recognised... (more)
Melting the Darkness: The Dyad and the Principles of Clinical Practice
This text addresses some of the key questions in the field of psychoanalysis and clinical practice. It considers areas such the nature of analysis and the relationship between the individual patient... (more)
Gaslighting, the Double Whammy, Interrogation and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysis
This work focuses on the way many therapists treat their patients - using indoctrination for the purposes of manipulation and control. Some clinicians do not consider this to be exploitative. The... (more)
Attachment, Intimacy, Autonomy: Using Attachment Theory in Adult Psychotherapy
Attachment theory provides a framework for thinking about relationships, particularly about those aspects of relationships which are shaped by threat and the need for security. This book explores the... (more)
Beyond Countertransference: The Therapist's Subjectivity in the Therapeutic Process
The author argues that the therapist's subjectivity is not limited to the countertransference, but is an indispensable component of the therapeutic process and, further, that the subjective life of... (more)
Psychotherapy After Kohut: A Textbook of Self Psychology
This text on self psychology explicates the theoretical and clinical relevance to psychoanalysis of the self psychological views on transference, intersubjectivity, trauma and empathy. (more)
Clinical Klein
An impressive examination of the evolution and contemporary practice of Kleinian psychoanalysis. In this book, the case histories of Melanie Klein and her followers are scrutinised, to examine both... (more)
A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought
A comprehensive overview of Kleinian terminology and theory. This book contains thirteen main entries on the basic Kleinian concepts - splitting, paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions,... (more)
The Basic Fault: Therapeutic Aspects of Regression
A classic work, which describes the primal trauma between parent and child.
Before I was I: Psychoanalysis and the Imagination
This volume is the collected papers of a leading figure in British psychoanalysis. The book is divided into three parts, which show her at work with individual patients, doctors and marital... (more)
Theories of Object Relations: Bridges to Self-Psychology
Theories of Object Relations: Bridges to Self-Psychology discusses the work of the major American and British contributors to object relations theory, focusing on the ways in which these theories... (more)
Talking with patients: A self psychological view of creative intuition and analytic discipline
This text argues that psychoanalytic therapy, like art, requires a balance between precise technique and creative intuition. Using numerous examples, the author demonstrates his approach with a range... (more)
A Skin for Thought: Interviews with Gilbert Tarrab on Psychology and Psychoanalysis
A French analyst discusses the interface between psychoanalysis and psychology. A Skin for Thought takes the form of ten transcribed discussions between Didier Anzieu and Gilbert Tarrab, recorded in... (more)
Clinical Workbook for Psychotherapists
'This book is a one-volume condensation of a previously published three-volume set of workbooks. I have preserved the workbook format and have tried to select the most cogent clinical vignettes... (more)