Psychoanalysis Books
The Primer of Object Relations: Second Edition
Formerly entitled Scharff Notes, this is a short primer on object relations therapy. The content of the book derives from students' most frequently asked questions, together with the Scharffs'... (more)
Psychosis: Understanding and Treatment
Provides coverage of the official theories surrounding schizophrenia and examines the range of ideas on what causes psychosis and how it can be worked with. The first half of the book deals with the... (more)
The Dynamics of the Social: Selected Essays Volume 2
The author reflects on a variety of social situations from a psychoanalytical perspective, drawing from her experiences of working over a thirty-year period. It concludes with a wide-ranging survey... (more)
On Flirtation
Building on his previous collection of psychoanalytic essays, On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, the author turns his attention to the subject of flirting. (more)
Transference Neurosis and Transference Psychosis: Toward a Basic Unity
An intensely personal, idiosyncratic, yet earnest and straightforward book. Although some will disagree with the theoretical ideas, it would be impossible not to empathize with the author's struggle... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Infant Research
This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then... (more)
Understanding Mental Objects
In this study the changing meanings of important psychoanalytic concepts are traced from context to context, and underlying theoretical issues are discussed in depth. The text includes a historical... (more)
The Truth About Freud's Technique: The Encounter With the Real
This incisive reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique challenges conventional notions on psychoanalysis and reveals a more personal and humanistic side of Freud. It argues for a return to a... (more)
Slings and Arrows
Examines what practitioners can do to help the victims of narcissistic wounds to integrate, mourn and heal them. (more)
In the Image of God: A Psychoanalystis View
A volume of personal reflections from a psychoanalyst and believer in the Christian faith. He describes how his belief affects his work. 128 pages. (more)
Regression to dependence: A second opportunity for ego integration and developmental progression
This text extends the proposal that regression is a necessary component of the treatment of disturbed patients - particularly those with significant false self pathology. It argues that the therapist... (more)
Life and Death in Psychoanalysis
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Classics in Psychoanalytic Technique: Revised Edition
A collection of seminal writings by over 40 prominent psychoanalysts on topics such as: the dynamics of transference, the "real" relationship, the meaning and uses of countertransference, the... (more)
A Quest for Answers: A Primer of Understanding and Treating Severe Personality Disorders
This text examines severe personality disorders from various angles. It covers: diagnosis and differential diagnosis; structure and dynamics; origins and development; evaluation and triage;... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader
What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? The book offers clear and straightforward... (more)
Freedom to Relate: Psychoanalytic Explorations
What is the relationship between psychoanalysis and human freedom? Does psychoanalysis enhance it? Is it coercive? What are the limits? These may appear to be deceptively simple questions, but Roger... (more)
A Primer of Kleinian Therapy
This work defines and illustrates the Kleinian approach to psychotherapy. Previous books on Kleinian approaches have concerned themselves almost exclusively with psychoanalysis. This book... (more)
Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self
Based on a series of clinical studies of schizoid problems, this book is a sequel to Harry Guntrip's theoretical study of the emergence of the schizoid problem, Personality Structure and Human... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self
Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self presents, in a readily accessible form, the overall theoretical position adopted by Harry Guntrip in his two earlier books Personality Structure and Human... (more)
Pre-Object Relatedness: Earliest Attachment and the Psychoanalytic Situation
Explores the primitive (yet highly complex) emotional world of the infant, a preverbal world that predates memory, symbolic representation, self-reflection and verbal description. With detailed... (more)
Personality Structure and Human Interaction: The Developing Synthesis of Psychodynamic Theory
How has a theory of man as a social being to be formulated if we are to do justice to his individuality, to the subtle ways in which his love and hate compete within his relations with others and to... (more)
The Power of Countertransference: Innovations in Analytic Technique: Second Edition
This book re-works current and past ideas on countertransference into a new, interpersonal approach to treatment. The author emphasises mutuality and debunks the idea that psychoanalysis needs to... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology: An Outline of Freud's ideas & their evolution
A simple summary of major psychoanalytic concepts and ideas including the theory of neurosis. The development of Freud's theories - modified by his clinical experiences of success and failure - is... (more)
Masochism: Current Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives
An examination of psychoanalytic views on masochism by such contributors as: Roy Schafer, Arnold Cooper, John Gedo, Helen Meyers and Herbert Rosenfeld
Reading Freud's Reading
Perhaps nothing is more revealing about a person than what he or she reads. In 1938, when Freud was forced by the Nazis to flee Vienna, he brought with him to London a large portion of his annotated... (more)
Boundary and Space: An Introduction to the Work of D.W. Winnicott
D.W. Winnicott - one of this centuries most important theorists - is the focus of the new edition of this extraordinary volume. Drawing extensively upon Winnicott's own papers and lectures, the main... (more)
Lost Angels: Psychoanalysis and cinema
This study takes Freud's preoccupation with femininity and feminine fantasy as a starting point and goes on to explore his differentiation between masculine and feminine forms of fantasy through... (more)
