Psychoanalysis Books
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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 Lectures on Klein and Bion
Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion outlines the basic ideas in their thinking and shows in detail how these ideas can be used to tackle a clinical problem. The contributors correct some common... (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)
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)