Forthcoming Books
Energy, Soul-Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm
Ruthie Smith introduces us to the world of working with energy and vibrations, and includes a few personal experiences as a musician, psychotherapist, and meditator. In the synthesis between... (more)
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)
Encountering Silencing: Forms of Oppression in Individuals, Families and Communities
Encountering Silencing is an invitation to closely observe the very practices and processes of silencing used by perpetrators of abuse and totalitarian institutions alike. A carefully selected group... (more)
Streams of Consciousness: Notebooks 1991–2024
Never originally intended for publication, Streams of Consciousness represent the private stream of ongoing thinking that has accompanied Christopher Bollas’ clinical practice and extensive published... (more)
Unlit Corners: Dirtiness, Miserliness, Shyness, Outrageousness, Shallowness, Indecisiveness, Restlessness, and Cowardliness
Unlit Corners endeavours to bring light to neglected character traits which many struggle to overcome. Filled with relevant case studies and carefully crafted psychoanalytic theory, the book... (more)
Bion’s Vertices: On Truth and Lies
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)
Unconscious Politics: Alienation, Social Science and Psychoanalysis
R. D. Hinshelwood brings together social science and psychoanalysis which are often held to be opposing schools of thought. His creation of a psychosocial model to develop new insights into politics... (more)
Streams of Consciousness: Notebooks 1974–1990
Never originally intended for publication, Streams of Consciousness represent the private stream of ongoing thinking that has accompanied Christopher Bollas’ clinical practice and extensive published... (more)
Healing the Fractured Mind: A Revolutionary Method for Treating Addiction and Other Disorders
Healing the Fractured Mind: A Revolutionary Method for Treating Addiction and Other Disorders offers the reader a journey into the human mind in search of an answer to the human paradox: how can we... (more)
Bion in the Consulting Room: An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry
Bion in the Consulting Room addresses the long unanswered question of Bion’s clinical and supervisorial technique and examines the way Bion’s conceptual model and clinical practices informed his... (more)
Reflecting on Therapy
Michael Jacobs is the author of key texts, such as Psychodynamic Counselling in Action and The Presenting Past. Looking back over fifty years’ experience as a therapist and reflecting on some forty... (more)
Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists
This book was written to meet the need of therapists: a succinct, thorough, practical, clear, down-to-earth handbook to which a therapist can refer as needed. Many, if not most, therapists have... (more)
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: 24-Volume Set
The wholly updated Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (RSE) is grounded in James Strachey’s canonical translation while annotating and clarifying... (more)
Freud's Ghost in Africa: Migrants and Madness
Much has been written about migration from a historic, economic and social perspective, but little has been written about it from a psychiatric or psychoanalytic point of view. Through the work of... (more)
Freud and the Changing World: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Its Troubles
A highly original, convivial dialogue between two leading psychoanalysts invites the reader to pause and reflect on current transformations and emotional affects in a changing world. Two analysts of... (more)
Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice
This thorough text provides a complete overview of the drive in Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Divided into four key areas, the book considers clinical, theoretical, historical, and cultural aspects... (more)
A Life of One's Own
“This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling with existence.” - Marion Milner, from... (more)
The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations
For more than a century, the cultural imagination of psychoanalysis has been assumed and largely continues to be assumed as Western. Although the terroirs of psychoanalysis in South America, France,... (more)
Group as a Whole: Learning for Leadership, Authority and Organisation
The focus of this volume is on groups. The approach taken is to study groups from the perspective of the group as a whole, which provides a totally different perspective from studying individual... (more)
Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking: Critical Edition and Readings of Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle stands as a foundational text in psychoanalysis, delving into profound questions about life, death, pleasure and pain. Through a combination of... (more)
My Teaching
Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise... (more)
Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology: A Reader's Guide
First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Žižek's breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece. It was an iconoclastic reinvention of ideology critique that... (more)
The Group Dimension: Capitalism, Group Analysis, and the World Yet to Come
The Group Dimension presents a thorough exploration of the history and theory of the group dimension, particularly in the context of modern capitalist society.
The book traces the development of... (more)
Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch
Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sexuality. How does one address this organically in... (more)
Erotic Transference: A Contemporary Introduction
Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to this key, yet challenging aspect of the psychoanalytic process.
Despite emerging frequently in the... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: The Basics
Gestalt Therapy: The Basics provides an accessible and concise overview of the approach and its substantial theory.
Experiential exercises, clinical vignettes, and examples from everyday... (more)
Philosophy After Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art
Philosophy After Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art brings together reflections on contemporary philosophy inspired by and in dialogue with Lacanian theory.
Rather than focus on the thinkers who... (more)
Psychoanalytic Studies of Change: An Integrative Perspective
Psychoanalytic Studies of Change presents recent studies of the process and outcome of psychoanalytic therapy with an integrative perspective.
A recurrent challenge in the discussion of... (more)
The Spirit of Psychotherapy : A Hidden Dimension
While the prime focus of psychotherapy theory and practice is intrapersonal and interpersonal, these are nested in an often unexamined supra-personal sociological, ecological, and spiritual context.... (more)
Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish
There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This... (more)