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)
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)
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)
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)
Eric Miller, Social Scientist and Organisational Consultant: His Life and Work
This book explores the role of Eric Miller in establishing and developing the practice and application of the systems psychodynamics paradigm to organisational development consultancy, research and... (more)
Otherness in a Fragmented World: Psychotherapy in Contemporary Society
This book explores a key theme both for humanity and for psychotherapy—how we can understand ourselves as a web of relational connections within the wider world that shapes us all.
Grounds are... (more)
Clinical Uses of Dreams in Psychoses: A Psychoanalytic Approach
This groundbreaking work challenges traditional psychoanalytic practice by demonstrating how dreams can be effectively utilized in treating psychotic patients.
The book provides comprehensive... (more)
Exploring Perspectives in Group Analytic Psychotherapy in Europe: Assessing Current Status and Shaping Future Directions
Exploring Perspectives Group Analytic Psychotherapy in Europe examines the theory, practice, research, and prospective developments of group analytic psychotherapy across European contexts. The... (more)
Our Eternal Home: Bion’s Idea of the Self
In this fascinating volume, Meg Harris Williams explores Wilfred Bion’s autobiographical works, analysing their theoretical importance and continued relevance to the personal experience of others.... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love: A Kaleidoscopic View
In Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet brings together decades of clinical experience, theoretical insight, and cultural curiosity to explore love in... (more)
Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis: Möbius Inflections
In Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis, Todd Anderson develops a Möbius model of analytic life in which knowing and being fold continuously into one another.
The book explores... (more)
Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism and Disablement
This book offers a fresh and critical take on the relationship between disability, work, and capitalism in the UK. Challenging the idea that disabled people are ‘non-workers’, it shows how society is... (more)
Perversions: A Contemporary Introduction
Perversions: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive exploration of psychoanalytic theories of perversion, tracing their evolution from Freud through contemporary practice with particular... (more)
Pierre Janet: A Contemporary Introduction
In this concise yet illuminating volume, Giuseppe Craparo explores the work of Pierre Janet, deftly outlining his theory of mind and pioneering studies on dynamic psychology, trauma, and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Contemporary Introduction
In this illuminating volume, Tamas Pataki critically examines Freud’s psychoanalytic approach to religion, tracing its intellectual evolution and impact on contemporary theories and... (more)
The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis: Further Papers of Malcolm Pines
The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis presents a selection of papers from Malcolm Pines’s long career, documenting his profound contribution to group analysis and its... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)