Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
Perversity, Pornography, and the Psychology of the Male Species: An Overdue Rethinking of Robert Stoller’s Gender Theories
This book presents an overview of present-day psychoanalytic thinking about the perverse spectrum: perverse thinking (disavowing reality), perverse modes of relating (manipulating others for one’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)
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis presents conversations with clinicians about their research interests, and their experiences in relation to psychoanalytic practice, focusing... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts: Culture and Kulturarbeit
A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud’s anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works of fiction and poetry.
Giuseppina Antinucci offers close readings of the... (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)
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)
Freud in Istanbul: Turkish Contributions to Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
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)
Narcissism: Psychoanalytic Clinicians and Researchers in Dialogue
Narcissism: Psychoanalytic Clinicians and Researchers in Dialogue presents current research and practice on working psychoanalytically with narcissism.
The contributors discuss a broad spectrum... (more)
Teaching Freud Now: Time Traveling Dialogues
This book offers practitioners involved in teaching and learning about Freud a new way to access and understand his ideas, blending the author's teaching legacy with feedback and insights from... (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)
Herbert Rosenfeld – Then and Now: The Significance of His Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
This collection presents new insights into the life and work of Herbert Rosenfeld and his continuing influence on psychoanalytic theory and practice. It includes accounts from both personal and... (more)
In Short: Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst
In Short: Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst is wise, uplifting and inspiring. Salman Akhtar brings his talent for poetic literature to gift us 111 pithy ‘proto essays’ on a wide range of subjects. His... (more)
Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind
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)
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)
Who Am I? Exploring Identity through Sexuality, Politics, and Art
Individual and collective identity are at the heart of key issues in politics, gender and sexuality, and the arts. This book explores nationalism, social violence, electoral processes, large... (more)
Body Psychotherapy for the 21st Century
Body psychotherapy currently attracts more interest than ever before and is taking up an important role in the general psychotherapy field, bringing awareness of embodiment into what has been a... (more)
Conversations
Christopher Bollas presents us with a new literary form in his Conversations: twenty-three unique dialogues to captivate, amuse, and inspire.
The psychoanalyst Paula Heimann asked: ‘Who is... (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)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China (2023 Institutional Print Subscription)
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)
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)
Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens
What stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation.... (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)
The Hour of Birth: Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art
To explore the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and contemporary visual artists upon each other, this volume examines the aesthetics of the sublime as an allegory for psychic birth.
Through the... (more)
Explorations in Fatherland: Psychotherapeutic Reflections on Fathers and Fatherhood
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)
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)
Traces of the Infantile in Psychoanalytic Therapy with Adults
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)
Perspectives on Early Parenthood and Infancy: A Psychoanalytic, Neuroscientific, Developmental and Cultural Dialogue
Perspectives on Early Parenthood and Infancy offers a comprehensive exploration of these vital life stages through the lenses of psychoanalysis, neuroscience, developmental psychology and diverse... (more)
Identity Politics: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
Identity politics have taken a strong hold on modern society, in particular online on social media platforms. But to what extent have they contributed to human flourishing? Have they changed the... (more)