Top 10 Titles
1. Sex in the Brain: A Neuropsychosexual Approach to Love and Intimacy
An overview of what happens in the brain during the development of romantic and sexual relationships, from the intense emotions at the start on to kissing, touch, arousal, orgasm, commitment,... (more)
2. The Soft Power of Culture: Art, Transitional Space, Death and Play
Psychoanalysis is a valuable tool to add to the sciences and the arts: all contain unconscious hidden depths that can become insight and understanding and contribute to humanity as culture. Using the... (more)
3. On Freud's Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through
In On Freud’s “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” international contributors from a range of psychoanalytic backgrounds reflect on this key 1914 paper.
Each chapter considers an aspect... (more)
4. Herbert Rosenfeld – Then and Now: The Significance of His Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
This collection presents new insights into the life and work of Herbert Rosenfeld and his continuing influence on psychoanalytic theory and practice. It includes accounts from both personal and... (more)
5. Group Analysis: A Modern Synthesis
Group Analysis outlines how clinical group analysis can re-establish itself as a leading paradigm for group psychotherapy.
Sigmund Karterud explains how the focus of group analysis and its... (more)
6. The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters investigates the impact of absent - physically or emotionally - and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of... (more)
7. In Short: Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst
In Short: Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst is wise, uplifting and inspiring. Salman Akhtar brings his talent for poetic literature to gift us 111 pithy ‘proto essays’ on a wide range of subjects. His... (more)
8. 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)
9. Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families
This book updates the Oedipus Complex for a contemporary audience in the light of social and cultural changes and explores its implications for psychoanalytic treatment and our understanding of queer... (more)
10. Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know
This book, founded on the in-depth discussion of sixteen clinical cases of psychoanalysis, tries to answer the question of what psychoanalysts do when they are practicing psychoanalysis.
The... (more)