Forthcoming Books
Axioms of Mind and Lived Experience: On Character and the Assumed
Christopher Bollas presents an elusive and puzzling form of unconscious life that has hitherto eluded psychoanalytic theory. “The assumed” identifies select unconscious processes that are a crucial... (more)
Jungian Training and Being Trained: Letting in the Light
A Jungian approach to training emphasises the importance of individuation. Yet, most analytic training takes place in institutions with hierarchical cultures. This edited volume investigates the... (more)
The Active Imagination: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1931
In the fall of 1931, C. G. Jung gave an intensive series of seminars on the use of active imagination in clinical practice. Delivered at the Hotel Sonne in Zurich, these lectures describe a technique... (more)
A Critical Companion to Bion: Functions of a Psychoanalytic Personality
A Critical Companion to Bion is an introduction to the extraordinary contributions of W.R. Bion, providing a close and detailed reading of his work, anchored in systematic critical expositions of the... (more)
Truth in a Time of Disinformation: Psychoanalytic Insights
Truth in a Time of Disinformation: Psychoanalytic Insights examines how the pursuit of truth—inner and outer, personal and collective—can restore coherence and integrity to a fractured world,... (more)
Observation and the Psychoanalytic Imagination: Papers from Child Psychotherapy, 1991-2025
This book brings together some of Margaret Rustin’s finest papers in the areas of infant observation, theory, research and literature. Drawing on more than 50 years of psychoanalytic practice, the... (more)
Knowledge and Its Pretenders: Perspectives on Freud
In this book, David Bell explores Freud's oeuvre starting with some of the earliest papers. He situates this work within the context of culture and the history of ideas. Covering such key topics as... (more)
Ethical Upheaval, Creative Upheaval: The Actual of Ethics in Psychoanalysis and in Life
In a profound new interweaving of the ideas of Levinas and Laplanche, this book rethinks the origin of ethical capacity in human life.
It elaborates on the implications of ethics at the... (more)
Counter-Time: Temporality of thought and history in clinical practice and literature
This book explores how trauma affects our experience of time, how that experience may not be linear, and how we may experience “counter-time” – a disruption or arrest of time’s flow and a perpetual... (more)
Between Genius and Tragedy: A Psychoanalytic Portrait of Viktor Tausk
Between Genius and Tragedy: A Psychoanalytic Portrait of Viktor Tausk offers a compelling intellectual biography and a nuanced psychoanalytic exploration of Tausk’s character and thought, tracing... (more)
Who Betrayed John Rittmeister?: A Psychoanalytic Mystery from Nazi Berlin
Who Betrayed John Rittmeister? unravels the mystery of betrayal, resistance, and psychoanalysis in the shadow of Nazi Berlin.
Rickels delves into the enigmatic circumstances surrounding the... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Nazism: Language and the Unconscious in the Third Reich
The Psychoanalysis of Nazism explores the intricate relationship between psychoanalysis, language, and the sociopolitical forces of Nazi Germany.
Through a detailed examination of psychoanalytic... (more)
Bion and Psychosis: A Long Road to Clinical Discovery
This comprehensive work systematically describes Wilfred Bion’s work on psychosis and critically develops his contribution in order to arrive at an appropriate and modern understanding of the... (more)
Bluebird: The Place of Death and Fear of Dying in My Long, Good Life
This uplifting memoir is a meditation on mortality and the art of living. Exploring death, dying and the impact of life-threatening illness, it raises profound questions that provoke the reader to... (more)
Dissociative Retreat and Addiction: Trauma, Dissociation, and Affect Dysregulation
Dissociative Retreat and Addiction presents a new theoretical and clinical model for understanding and treating addiction. Giuseppe Craparo examines how addictive behaviors develop as the result of... (more)
The Evolution of Hybrid and Remote Working: Transforming Office-based Jobs
This book examines the growth of hybrid and remote working following the pandemic and the diverse issues that result from this.
While hybrid work is undoubtedly the ‘new norm’, for office-based... (more)
Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Volume 2: Later Works from Lausanne, Geneva and Rostov-on-Don
This is the second of two volumes of totally new English translations of all the known published psychoanalytic works of Sabina Spielrein, an important early proponent of psychoanalysis—and in... (more)
Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Volume 1: Early Works from Zürich, Vienna and Berlin
This is the first of two volumes of totally new English translations of all the known published psychoanalytic works of Sabina Spielrein, an important early proponent of psychoanalysis—and in... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 8 Number 1 & 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Pathways to Wholeness: Archetypal Astrology and the Transpersonal Journey
The exploration of the psyche in non-ordinary states of consciousness provides access to powerful transformative experiences that can lead us towards a more complete experience of being human (the... (more)
Cannabis and Cancer: The Thinking Patient’s Guide
The biggest challenge for cancer patients and caregivers wanting to learn more about using cannabis as a treatment for their cancer is the complete absence of reliable, informed and unbiased... (more)
Earth Divination, Earth Magic: A Practical Guide to Geomancy
Here is a complete guide to the lost art of geomancy - one of the major divination systems that are part of the Western magical tradition.
Geomancy is simple, quick, and direct - anyone can get... (more)
Right of Passage
Set in the heyday of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War era, Right of Passage explores the social change and conflict involved in that period. The emotional development of Chris, a... (more)
Materia Medica of Western Herbs
Based on the original Materia Medica of Western Herbs by Carole Fisher and Gilian Painter, this volume has been expanded and updated to include botanical, scientific, pharmacy and safety information.... (more)
Touching the Real: Trauma, History, and Psychoanalysis
In this book, Leslie Chapman explores the whole notion of trauma and how it can be conceptualised in terms of the Lacanian Real. In the process, he also looks at how trauma is situated within... (more)
Knitting a Clinic: Between the Child and the Other
Knitting a Clinic: Between the Child and the Other results from the primordial signifiers that cut through this text, signifiers such as structure, subject, lack, child, Other, object petit a and... (more)
Trauma and Narcissism in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro: Inner Worlds of Borderline Survival
Kazuo Ishiguro’s international best sellers explore trauma, including failures of dependency, and the universal, life-long struggle between narcissism, a protective psychological defence and... (more)
Vida Interior: Psicanálise e Desenvolvimento da Personalidade
Esta segunda edição de Vida Interior – ampliada, com um capítulo sobre os últimos anos do ciclo vital – aborda a relação entre a teoria psicanalítica e a natureza do desenvolvimento humano. Seguindo... (more)