What is the place of truth and lies in psychoanalytic discourse? What are the consequences in terms of collusion and communication? How can a ‘lie’ carry a meaning? These questions, and many more,... (more)
A stimulating account of some of the key challenges found in psychoanalysis through a discussion of the Specificity initiative, a research method that examines how analysts work, associate, and... (more)
Arminda Aberastury was a pioneering child analyst and contemporary of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. She developed and popularised child psychoanalysis in Latin America and remains a profound... (more)
This work introduces Fairbairn’s original object relations theory (his psychology of dynamic structure) and applies it to a number of cultural objects. Namely, a perplexing mannerist painting by... (more)
This book explores the role of fathers from a broadly psychoanalytic lens, looking at fatherhood from the evolving perspective of fathers, the rest of the family, and society as a whole.
Edwards... (more)
This reissue of a classic work that revolutionized the understanding and treatment of pathological mourning contains a new preface, Foreword from Harold F. Searles, and fascinating, detailed reports... (more)
In this book, Mary Morgan provides a comprehensive overview understanding of couple relations.
Taking a psychoanalytic perspective, Morgan explores some of the fundamental tensions in being... (more)
A vital book that seeks to place Turkish contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice on the international stage from which, until now, it has been curiously absent. It includes chapters from... (more)
The Mind Movement consists of two main areas of social change: 1) a social movement for individuals to talk about and learn to take accountability for their mental health, and 2) motivating people to... (more)
Reported and Recorded
In this unique and candid book, nearly forty patients offer straightforward, personal testimonies of their experiences in psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Both remarkable and novel in its approach,... (more)
Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind allows readers to examine one of the most significant areas of clinical psychoanalytic thinking, focusing on Bion’s idiom that dreaming is the... (more)
This book analyses narrativity in painting from a Freudian-Lacanian perspective.
Narrativity in painting is prominently discussed through disciplinary laws and lens of art history, art theory,... (more)
Group Therapy for Complex Trauma provides a roadmap for professionals trying to address the many issues that arise in group treatment. It’s an excellent training resource for mental health... (more)
This book applies parent-infant-therapy techniques to allow therapists to work effectively with adult patients on their earliest traumas.
There is an increased awareness among therapists,... (more)
Inspired by the Wild About Horror segments on the Evolution of Horror Podcast, Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema investigates fifty films across six core subgenres—Mind, Body, Nature, Aliens, Vampires,... (more)
Using a combination of lived experience, clinical insight, and academic research, this book explores the impact of Covid-19 on brain injury rehabilitation to both assist with current treatment and... (more)
Human goodness and the associated psychic phenomena are essential trajectories of mental health and well-being, towards which an ethical psychoanalytic work should ultimately strive. This book... (more)
An in-depth exploration of Jung’s notion of shadow from world-leading expert Ann Casement. It divides the shadow into three parts, personal, collective, and archetypal, using analytical psychology,... (more)
In 1957, at the age of eighty-one, C. G. Jung began a collaboration with his student and secretary Aniela Jaffé and the legendary publisher Kurt Wolff on a book about his life. Memories, Dreams,... (more)
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)
Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad... (more)
Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad... (more)
C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally acclaimed for his own brand of psychotherapy. Neumann,... (more)
The bestselling debut from psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life, was about learning to live; his much-anticipated new book is about learning to love. Grosz reveals how to navigate the... (more)
Our families shape who we are. From the circumstances of our conception and the family structure we are born into, to the expectations placed upon us and the love we receive, we are formed by our... (more)
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud.
In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance... (more)
With a new introduction from the author, this critical text of feminist theory explores how Freud's work helps us understand the subjugation of women today.
Psychoanalysis and Feminism had a... (more)
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Developmental Trauma offers mental health practitioners a transdiagnostic model to support the needs of traumatised children with both internalising (emotional) and... (more)
This accessible and meticulously researched book is a philosophical study dedicated to the psychoanalytic dimension of the uncanny, and the discussions on monstrosity as fundamental concepts to... (more)
This book explores cross-cultural similarities and differences of human subjectivity and selfhood through the concept of selfscapes.
Utilizing an ethnographic and person-centered approach to the... (more)