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The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Written by a leading teacher and scholar of relational thinking, The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy provides a comprehensive overview of relational psychoanalysis in one... (more)
The Cure for Psychoanalysis
This book contains two brilliant essays by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. In the first essay, 'The Magic of Winnicott,' Adam Phillips makes clear the subtlety and wisdom... (more)
The Authority of Tenderness: Dignity and the True Self in Psychoanalysis
This insightful and beautifully written work explores non-linear processes of recovery of the loss of Self. The inherent healing power of hard-earned, wholehearted self-acceptance is conceived... (more)
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works,... (more)
One Hundred Years of Psychoanalysis: A Timeline: 1900-2000
A comprehensive timeline of psychoanalysis depicting the major thinkers, theories, publications and events in the history of psychoanalysis throughout the 20th Century, placing them within the wider... (more)
The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
The sexual landscape has changed dramatically in the past few decades, with the meaning of gender and sexuality now being parsed within the realms of gender fluidity, nonheteronormative sexuality,... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal: Volume 11 Number 1 – Special Issue: Separation and Divorce
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer: Volume 2: Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis
This new selection from the papers of Donald Meltzer spans his working life and serves as an introduction to all his key concepts, such as: aesthetic conflict, the claustrum, adhesive identification,... (more)
Translation/Transformation: 100 Years of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Translation is at the heart of psychoanalysis: from unconscious to conscious, experience to verbal expression, internal to enacted, dream thought to dream image, language to interpretation,... (more)
Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality
Inside Lives belongs to the heart of the thinking and working of the Tavistock Clinic. Its aim is to bring psychoanalytic theory to life, to make it accessible to a much wider range of readers, both... (more)
The Sound of the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis as Music
In this book, Ludovica Grassi explores the importance of music in psychoanalysis, arguing that music is a basic working tool for psyche, as words are composed of sound, rhythm and intonation more... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life: Common Distress, Individual Experience
Bringing together a dozen contributions from psychoanalysts of many different countries and theoretical orientations, Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life, a collective work edited by Howard Levine and... (more)
A Couple State of Mind: The Tavistock Relationships Model for the Psychoanalysis of Couples
This long-awaited book, aimed at an international audience of practitioners, students and teachers of psychoanalytic couple therapy, describes the Tavistock Relationships model of couple... (more)
A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
This collection of selected papers explores psychoanalytic technique, exemplifying Fred Busch's singular contribution to this subject, alongside the breadth and depth of his work.
Covering key... (more)
Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious
This book addresses a range of fundamental questions around the nature of psychoanalysis. It distinguishes how psychoanalysis differs from other forms of therapy, explores the ways in which insights... (more)
Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts: The Salonica Cohen Family and Trauma Across Generations
Through a collection of letters sent by members of a Jewish family between 1925-42, this fascinating book explores phenomenological and psychoanalytical aspects of the Holocaust and its associated... (more)
Reclaiming Unlived Life: Experiences in Psychoanalysis
In Reclaiming Unlived Life, influential psychoanalyst Thomas Ogden uses rich clinical examples to illustrate how different types of thinking may promote or impede analytic work. With a unique style... (more)
Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice: Second Edition
What is psychoanalysis? Is it relevant to today's mental health crisis? How can psychoanalysis help people suffering from psychological distress and illness? This vital new book examines how... (more)
Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond
Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond outlines the value of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the body and its vicissitudes and for addressing these in the context of... (more)
Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown
In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis
From unedited French manuscripts
Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice: Insights from Fourteen Psychoanalysts
In this book, fourteen Lacanian psychoanalysts from Italy and France present how they listen and understand clinical questions, and how they operate in session. More than a theoretical 'introduction... (more)
Universals of Psychoanalysis: In the Treatment of Psychotic and Borderline States
An original synthesis of Kleinian and Piagetian ideas, applied to the treatment of psychotic and borderline states, by a psychoanalyst working at the Maudsley Hospital. The book examines both the... (more)
Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers
The value of Winnicott's work has become more and more widely recognized not only among psycho-analysts but also psychologists, educators, social workers, and men and women in every branch of... (more)
Reading French Psychoanalysis
How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field? In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society,... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings: Upheavals and Resilience
Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings examines the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with patients who have experienced deeply traumatic experiences through war, forced migrations,... (more)
Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline: In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel
The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of... (more)
Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
Nurturing Children describes children's lives transformed through therapy. Drawing on decades of experience, internationally respected clinician and trainer Graham Music tackles major issues... (more)
Psychoanalysis Under Nazi Occupation: The Origins, Impact and Influence of the Berlin Institute
Laura Sokolowsky's survey of psychoanalysis under Weimar and Nazism explores how the paradigm of a 'psychoanalysis for all' became untenable as the Nazis rose to power.
Mainly discussing the... (more)
Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
One hundred (and one) tales to mark Salman Akhtar’s one hundredth book! Divided into eight informative parts – Dr Akhtar’s journey to psychoanalysis; the lessons he learned from his teachers,... (more)