Psychoanalysis Books
An Analytic Journey: From the Art of Archery to the Art of Psychoanalysis
This book is a journey through almost forty years of practice. Each chapter is independent of the others and develops around a specific theme: psychoanalysis in France, the transference, fathers... (more)
When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia
Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic... (more)
Echoism: The Silenced Response to Narcissism
This book introduces the importance of Echoism as both a clinical entity and a theoretical concept. In Ovid's version of the myth of Echo and Narcissus, the character Echo receives equal attention to... (more)
Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management
Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management is replete with clinical pearls and highly useful tips for the management of patients driven by feelings of guilt and remorse. Eight distinguished... (more)
The Work of Psychoanalysis: Sexuality, Time and the Psychoanalytic Mind
Psychoanalysts working in clinical situations are constantly confronted with the struggle between conservative forces and those which enable something new to develop. Continuity and change, stasis... (more)
Andre Green at the Squiggle Foundation: Revised Edition
Despite being one of the foremost psychoanalysts working today, much of Andre Green's work has until recently been unavailable in English. This work aims to rectify this, by collecting together five... (more)
Coffee with Freud
This is the second volume in Brett Kahr’s ‘Interviews with Icons’ series, following on from Tea with Winnicott. Professor Kahr, himself a highly regarded psychoanalyst, turns his attention to the... (more)
Bion in Brazil: Supervisions and Commentaries
The discovery, translation into English, and publication of these previously unpublished recordings of Bion’s clinical supervisions in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with commentaries by leading Brazilian... (more)
Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self: The Legacy of Frances Tustin
Frances Tustin was a pioneering child psychotherapist who broke new ground in working with autistic children in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book amplifies and extends contributions... (more)
Inquiries in Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers of Edna O'Shaughnessy
The papers of Edna O'Shaughnessy are among the finest to be found in psychoanalytic writing. Her work is unified not so much by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her underlying... (more)
Shame: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
A late-comer to psychoanalytic theorizing, 'shame' results from a disjunction between the ego and the ego-ideal. A complex psychosocial experience, it is comprised of a painful exposure of one’s... (more)
Social Defences Against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm
This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety first set out by Elliott Jaques and Isabel Menzies Lyth in papers which they published in 1955 and 1960, and which have... (more)
Hysteria Today
Hysteria, one of the most diagnosed conditions in human history, is also one of the most problematic. Can it even be said to exist at all? Since the earliest medical texts people have had something... (more)
Psychoanalytic Listening: Methods, Limits, and Innovations
'Joseph Breuer’s celebrated patient, Anna O., designated psychoanalysis to be a "talking cure". She was correct insofar as psychoanalysis does place verbal exchange at the center stage. However, the... (more)
Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning: Clinical and Theoretical Contributions
In the last several decades, the analytic field has widened considerably in scope. The therapeutic task is now seen by an increasing number of analysts to require that patient and analyst work... (more)
Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works
Thomas Ogden is internationally recognized as one of the most creative analytic thinkers writing today. In this book he brings his original analytic ideas to life by means of his own method of... (more)
Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations
A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience - what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable - falls out of social discourse, but... (more)
Under the Skin: A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification
Considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and... (more)
On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"
Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that is, by loss. The distinction often made is that mourning occurs after the death of a loved one while in melancholia the object of... (more)
The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Approaches
This new edition of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy reflects the many changes in the profession. It includes: additional chapters on neuroscience, work with looked after children... (more)
The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept
'Until now no book has ever attempted to compare and contrast contributions on analytic field theory and at the same time to explore its clinical and technical implications. This volume is intended... (more)
Envy and Gratitude Revisited
These stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalytic inspiration. Sixteen highly regarded analysts,... (more)
Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable: The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches
How do we know when what is happening between two people should be called psychoanalysis? What is a psychoanalytic process and how do we know when one is taking place? Psychoanalysis Comparable and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy
People like to talk. We know that talking to an attentive and thoughtful listener can be helpful in clarifying conscious and unconscious feelings, thoughts, and motivations. But is talk enough? The... (more)
The Telescoping of Generations: Listening to the Narcissistic Links Between Generations
The Telescoping of Generations is an original perspective on the nature of narcissism, exploring how the traumatic experiences of previous generations influence the mechanisms involved in the... (more)
The Psychotic Core
Understanding the psychodynamics of madness is essential to the therapy of most patients, including those who are not diagnosed as mad in the literal sense. This volume draws on Freud, Jung, recent... (more)
Time Present and Time Past
This remarkable collection of papers is divided into three sections: clinical issues; psychoanalysis and the life cycle; and underlying theories of practice. The papers span the years 1951 to 2004,... (more)
Kleinian Theory: A Contemporary Perspective
This book aims to present an account of the main theoretical concepts in Kleinian theory as they have been postulated by Melanie Klein, together with newer developments and formulations inspired by... (more)
The Violence of Interpretation: From Pictogram to Statement
This translation of Piera Aulagnier's theory bridges the work of Winnicott and Lacan, putting forward a theory of psychosis based on children's early experiences. It presents his analysis of the... (more)