Psychoanalysis Books
Bion’s Vertices: On Truth and Lies
A stellar international line-up of Bionian scholars examine the notions of truth and lies from a variety of perspectives. They explore the importance of truth and lies within an individual’s... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Practice
André Green revisits the very foundations of the analytic method. He traces a new map of the psychoanalytic field and proposes a contemporary clinical approach informed by the analytic framework,... (more)
The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive
A clinical exploration of artificial intelligence (AI) that Amy Levy renames “alien intelligence”, a phrase coined by Yuval Noah Harari to demonstrate that this creation is a not an artifact, but a... (more)
Echoes of Childhood: The Foundational Role of Child Analysis in Adult Analytic Work
Echoes of Childhood reveals how the wisdom of child analysis revitalizes work with adults. It gathers an international group of distinguished psychoanalysts who demonstrate the relevance of... (more)
Linking Objects and Linking Phenomena: A Study of the Forms, Symptoms, Metapsychology, and Therapy of Complicated Mourning
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)
Alienation, Conscious and Unconscious: Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Sociopolitical Issues
Too little is ever thought about the unconscious dimension of the mind when considering political and ideological issues and crises. To redress this lacuna, R. D. Hinshelwood presents eleven of his... (more)
On Resisting Women
Through a psychoanalytic lens, Michaela Chamberlain examines how individuals become misogynists. She shows how unrecognised misogyny infiltrates everyday life, in both public and private, shaping how... (more)
Entanglements: Weaving Our Futures
Weaving the entangled threads of cultural upheavals and sociopolitical events with personal experience, Entanglements shines a light on soul, power, and unconscious desire. Simon Western offers... (more)
Winnicott’s Letter to Bion: Playing, Dreaming, and Beyond
Winnicott’s Letter to Bion presents reflections on a fascinating moment in the history of psychoanalytic thinking.
Donald Winnicott’s letter, sent on October 5, 1967, and conveying thoughts... (more)
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis offers an overview and exploration of Priscilla Roth’s unique contribution to psychoanalysis over the course of her long and distinguished... (more)
What Alive Means: Psychoanalytic Explorations
Internationally acclaimed for the clarity of his writing and thinking, Ogden radically reconceives psychoanalysis as a therapeutic process in which a person comes not only to better know him- or... (more)
Affect, Consciousness and Self: The View from the Bottom of the Mind
This book argues that mental life is organized by and around affect. It proposes a clinical model for understanding how affect influences states of consciousness and self. It illustrates how, from... (more)
Attics and Basements: The Evocative, Expressive and Embracing Functions of Homes and Other Human Dwellings
Attics and Basements investigates all manner of homes. Its approach is fundamentally psychoanalytic but borrows significantly from anthropology, history, architecture, religion, and general... (more)
Navigating Racial Landscapes: Wholeness and Wounds
In Navigating Racial Landscapes: Wholeness and Wounds, the therapy room becomes a microcosm of the world’s racial tensions, where the work involves both exploring the inner topography of the self and... (more)
An Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
This book presents and illustrates the theory and technique of working with young people, their parents, and their families. Wide-ranging in focus from individuals to communities, it gives a... (more)
Misogyny in Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, misogyny hides in plain sight, seemingly above and beyond the usual conventions of workplace etiquette or even a vague awareness of sexism. It is commonplace in psychoanalytic... (more)
An Introduction to Fairbairn’s Psychology of Dynamic Structure: The Analysis of Cultural Objects
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)
The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference
Dhwani Shah moves the focus from using psychoanalytic theory and technique to explore the patient’s mind from a safe distance. Instead, he concentrates on the analyst’s feelings, subjective... (more)
False Self: The Life of Masud Khan
Notorious for his flamboyant personality and, at first, widely acknowledged as a brilliant clinician, M. Masud R. Khan (1924-1989) exposed through his candor and scandalous behaviour the bigotry of... (more)
Marriage and Its Discontents: Variations, Vexations, and Violations
With contributions from Anne Adelman, Salman Akhtar, Shawn Blue, Ann Eichen, Arpana G. Inman, Sameer Khan, Olga Santa Maria, Andrew Smolar, and Pratyusha Tummala-Narra.
This is a book about... (more)
The Work of the Negative
The author draws attention to the work of the negative in Freud, examining aspects such as dream works and the work of mourning. The "work of the negative" refers to how we cope, or do not cope, with... (more)
On the Destruction and Death Drives
‘Living with the idea of bearing a death-force fundamentally directed at oneself is hardly easy to admit. It is less so in any case than the idea that we are all murderers, that we are ever ready to... (more)
Group Dynamics in Therapy and Supervision: Reaching the Unconscious
This valuable book presents the theory and practice of group psychotherapy and shows what can be achieved with psychoanalytic group psychotherapy and group work supervision, and why it is such an... (more)
Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1972–1975
A highly controversial and divisive character, Masud Khan’s story is both fascinating and complex. The publication of his private Work Books, which record personal encounters and opinions, present... (more)
Night Vision: Wilfred Bion's Epistemological Poetics and the Experience of the First World War
The first comprehensive study of Wilfred Bion’s autobiographical and literary writings: an in-depth analysis of how, throughout his life, Bion sought a narrative form for his traumatic experiences as... (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)
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)
Eyes, Mind and Vision: Visual Realities and Metaphors in Psychoanalysis
A vital investigation into the importance of eyes and vision in psychoanalytic theory, which includes conceptual innovations, linguistic nuances, illustrations from fairy tales and folklore, film... (more)
Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Supervision: A Contemporary Introduction
In this comprehensive and informative book, Christine Driver provides a systematic overview of the key issues that a supervisor of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy needs to consider and... (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)