Psychoanalysis Books
Freud: A Modern Master: Second Edition
Now available again in paperback. A fine, concise account of the life and work of Freud, which might prove useful to anyone seeking a general overview before plunging into Freud's works. (more)
Remembering Anna O.
Offers an examination of the very foundations of psychoanalytic theory and practice, by demonstrating that Breuer and Freud knowingly falsified the historical record for their 'Studies in Hysteria'... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis
In this text, Otto Fenichel summarizes the first half-century of psychoanalytic investigation into psychopathology, and presents a general psychoanalytic theory of neurosis.
The Common Ground of Psychoanalysis
Examines the ties which hold psychoanalysts together as common adherents to a shared science and profession. The author describes what the diverse perspectives have in common, and what separates them... (more)
The uses of countertransference
Few terms in the psychoanalytic lexicon have proved more elusive or generated more controversy than 'countertransference'. This volume provides a practical account of how to understand and work with... (more)
Object Relations, The Self and the Group
This text presents a framework for integrating group psychology with psychoanalytic theories of object relations, the ego and self, through the perspective of general systems theory. It defines and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Group Therapy
Karl Konig and Wulf-Volker Lindner have distilled their many years of research, rich clinical experience, and extensive theoretical knowledge of analytic group psychotherapy. Now, for the first time... (more)
A Psychology of Difference: The American lectures
This work is made up of a collection of lectures given by Otto Rank, a disciple of Freud, between 1924 and 1934. Topics covered include: separation and individuation; projection and identification;... (more)
The Wisdom of the Ego
Examines why it is that many deeply troubled youths nevertheless become well-adjusted, productive adults, by looking at the mind's defenses and how they evolve.
Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the Self
Kohut believed that narcissistic vulnerabilites play a significant part in the suffering that causes people to seek treatment. The author uses examples from his own practice to show how Kohut's... (more)
Unorthodox Freud: The View from the Couch
The authors examine the gulf between Freud's actual technique (the nature of the curative process on which it is based) and modern re-interpretations of it, which have been codified as the 'basic... (more)
Freud in Exile: Psychoanalysis and its Vicissitudes
In June 1938 Sigmund Freud and his family arrived in London, exiles from Nazi-occupied Austria. Now, seventy years later, Freud's exile, together with the general exodus of psychoanalysts from the... (more)
Sexuality, War and Schizophrenia: Collected Psychoanalytic Papers
Original retail price: £29.95
Object Relations: A Dynamic Bridge Between Individual and Family Treatment
Integrating psychoanalysis and family therapy, this work demonstrates the significance of early childhood development and the effect of ongoing family interactions upon developmental arrest and... (more)
Jokes: Their Purpose and Meaning
This work examines jokes as a means of communicating emotionally our deepest anxieties and most basic conflicts and impulses. Strean illustrates how jokes allow us safe - if indirect - expression of... (more)
Music and the Mind
Argues that music is a significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before, and examines the psychological roots of the power of music.
Essential Papers on Transference Analysis
In this review of transference as a powerful therapeutic tool, the contributors highlight the importance of its here and now analysis and identify patient and therapist resistance to the transference... (more)
Countertransference: The Therapist's Contribution to the Therapeutic Situation
The contributors to this volume share a common perception that countertransference can serve as a powerful tool within psychoanalytic treatment.
Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach
In this sequel to "Structures of Subjectivity" (1984), the authors apply the intersubjective approach to clinical issues critical to psychoanalytic therapy, including the analysis of transference,... (more)
The Analysis of the Transference in the Here and Now
A contemporary approach to transference analysis that emphasises the importance of the here and now, and elucidates the resistance that patients and therapists experience in the analysis of their... (more)
A Narrative Textbook of Psychoanalysis
A presentation of psychoanalytic theory and practice with the criticisms and comments of experts in ego psychology and object relations theory. The work covers Freudian theory and present-day U.S.... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Development: Representations and Narratives
Explores the relationship between 'representation' and 'narration' and how they have developed the language of therapy and theories of psychoanalysis and development.
In Freud's Shadow
325 pages.
