Psychoanalysis Books
Thinking About Children
At his death in 1971, Donald Winnicott left unpublished a large number of papers, lectures and other writings which spanned his career of over forty years as a psychoanalyst and pediatrician. Since... (more)
Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk
A highly controversial study of the life and work of Victor Tausk, one of Freud's most gifted followers. Roazen draws on historical sources to support his thesis that Freud envied and feared Tausk,... (more)
Reading Freud: Explorations and Entertainments
Historian and Freud biographer, Peter Gay here offers insights into Freud's life and thought. In eight essays, Gay explores topics ranging from Freud and Shakespeare to Freud's favourite jokes, from... (more)
Birth of the Living God: A Psychoanalytic Study
Utilizing both clinical material based on the life histories of twenty patients and theoretical insights from the works of Freud, Erikson, Fairbairn, and Winnicott, Ana-Maria Rizzuto examines the... (more)
Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable
Makes a persuasive case for an alternative interpretation of Freud's attitude toward Judaism, his family, and his own Jewishness, by analysing his intentions in writing 'Moses and Monotheism'.
The British Schools of Psychoanalysis: Pluralism and Convergence in the Clinical Setting
This text provides an analysis of psychoanalytical pluralism and a celebration of psychoanalytic convergence. Recently, various psychoanalytic perspectives have become increasingly integrated. Using... (more)
Developmental Pathogenesis and the Treatment of Borderline and Narcissistic Personalities
An examination of the development and treatment of borderline and narcissistic disorders. Aiming to reflect the changes that have taken place in psychoanalytic theory and practice, Rinsley presents a... (more)
Michael Balint: Object Relations, Pure and Applied
This work outlines Michael Balint's contributions to psychoanalysis, including the interdependence of mother and infant, the secondary nature of narcissism, the use of transference and... (more)
Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as:
"An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of genuine brilliance on Freud's cultural importance . . . a permanently... (more)
Hope: A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States
In this work, Anna Potamianou shows how - in the borderline patient - hope can become an omnipotent means of denying reality. She gives both clinical and literary examples of how this ocurrs and goes... (more)
Freud and Philosophy: An Essay in Interpretation
If Paul Ricoeur is correct in seeing the various currents of contemporary philosophy all converging on the problem of a "grand philosophy of language," then the first sixty pages of this absorbing... (more)
The Function of the Orgasm
This book describes Reich's medical and scientific work on the living organism from his first efforts at the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1919 to the laboratory experiments in Oslo... (more)
From Fetus to Child: An Observational and Psychoanalytic Study
The advent of ultrasound scanning has made it possible to observe the fetus undisturbed in its natural surroundings. In this book the author describes in moving detail her observations of the... (more)
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi: Volume 2: 1914-1919
This second volume of three covers the events during World War I. Uncertainty pervades these letters: Will Ferenczi be called up? Will food, fuel and cigar shortages continue? Will Freud's enlisted... (more)
Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud's Wolf Man
An original reading of Freud's most famous case history, concentrating on representation and difference. (more)
Attachment Across the Life Cycle
Using contemporary research and clinical data, this book examines the extent to which psychological problems are rooted in early mother/child relations.
Translating Freud
Examines the translation of Freud's work into English, French and Spanish, and how this affects its meaning. Contributors include Patrick Mahony and Jean Laplanche.
Cultivating Freud's Garden in France
Marion Oliner's Cultivating Freud's Garden in France is really two books. One (the "first" book) is a general study of psychoanalysis in France. The other (the "second" book) is a group of specific... (more)
Object Relations Theory and Practice: An Introduction
This text offers a representative sample of the work of the major contributors to object relations theory and therapy. The development of object relations thinking from its beginnings in the work of... (more)
The Innocence of Dreams
Rycroft argues that dreams are not guilty fantasies, nor abnormal states, but innocent flights of the imagination, released from the censorship of the waking mind. He examines the many debates since... (more)
The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion
Psychoanalysis, as seen through Bion's eyes, is a radical departure. The Symingtons explain Bion's concepts in relation to clinical practice. Each chapter looks in depth at a particular theme. (more)
D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait
A distillation of painstaking research into the life of Donald Winnicott, tracing his life from his childhood in Plymouth, through his career in paediatrics, to his election as President of the... (more)
The Evolution of the Emotion-Processing Mind
In attempting to unify psychoanalytic and evolutionary theories, Langs offers a concise account of the most current versions of Darwinian and neo-Darwinian theory. He then develops the arguement that... (more)
The freedom to inquire: self psychological perspectives on women's issues, masochism, and the therapeutic relationship
This text presents the work of Ester Menaker. Never a follower of a particular psychoanalytic perspective or dogma, she has always questioned prevailing orthodoxy. The result is a self psychological... (more)