Psychoanalysis Books
Reading Bion
Wilfred R. Bion is considered a ground-breaking psychoanalyst. His thinking is rooted in Freud and Klein from where it takes an original flight. Reading Bion shows the evolution of his seminal... (more)
Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment
Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political... (more)
The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: Comparisons and Dialogues
The main aims of this book are to introduce the distinctive clinical paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott, to compare and contrast the way in which their theories evolved, and to present a... (more)
On Adolescence: Inside Stories
Adolescence and adolescent states of mind have seldom captured so much attention publicly, nor have they stirred so much anxiety and disturbance privately. This long acknowledged, problematic,... (more)
Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: The Work of Irma Brenman Pick
Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter brings together Irma Brenman Pick's original contributions to psychoanalytic technique. Working within the Kleinian tradition, she produces vivid clinical... (more)
Attacks on Linking Revisited: A New Look at Bion’s Classic Work
This book aims at providing further contributions inspired by Bion's paper Attacks on Linking (1959) by a distinguinshed group of scholars who have focused on different aspects of his... (more)
Three Papers of W.R. Bion
Three Papers of W.R. Bion features two previously unpublished papers and one which has only previously appeared in The Complete Works of W. R. Bion (2014). Characterised by Bion's directness, clarity... (more)
Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue
Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is... (more)
Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis
'This volume reflects the passion, creativity and commitment of Antonino Ferro and his colleagues from Pavia as they strive to forge a psychoanalysis built upon a creative, intersubjective dialogue... (more)
Bion and Meltzer's Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life: Beyond the Spectrum in Psychoanalysis
Drawing on the influential contributions of Wilfred Bion and Donald Meltzer to psychoanalysis, Bion and Meltzer's Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life explores and addresses the clinical... (more)
Melanie Klein: The Basics
Melanie Klein: The Basics provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and work of Melanie Klein, whose discoveries advanced those of Freud and other analysts, deepening our insight... (more)
Turning the Tide: The Psychoanalytic Approach of the Fitzjohn's Unit to Patients with Complex Needs
Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of developmental approaches to mental health which have been strongly influenced by the ideas of psychoanalysis. It has... (more)
The Growth of Mind
The Growth of Mind is the product of a series of ten lectures by Neville Symington. It offers an understanding of the mind and its capacity to discover truth, establishing this as the foundation... (more)
The Klein Tradition
Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's ideas - in particular her explorations into the world of the infant and her emphasis on the complex interactions between the infant's internal world of powerful... (more)
Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein: Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner
Melanie Klein's Lectures on Technique is based on a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1936 and repeated several times in subsequent... (more)
Donald W. Winnicott and the History of the Present: Understanding the Man and his Work
In November 2015, The Winnicott Trust held a major conference in London to celebrate the forthcoming publication of the Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott. Most of the papers given then now... (more)
Bion in Buenos Aires: Seminars, Case Presentation and Supervision
These newly discovered clinical seminars of Wilfred Bion, which include supervisions, personal case presentations, and lectures on psychoanalytic theory, represent his initial foray into many years... (more)
Beginning Analysis: On the Processes of Initiating Psychoanalysis
How does a psychoanalysis begin? What goes on when analyst and prospective analysand meet for the first time, and what processes are activated to make the project for an analysis possible? This... (more)
Learning Along the Way: Further Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Learning Along the Way sees Patrick Casement trace the development and application of his earlier key contributions to psychoanalytic technique. These include his observations about internal... (more)
British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition
British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition is a new and extended edition of The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition, which explored the successes... (more)
Psychotic Organization of the Personality: Psychoanalytic Keys
The book is a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis as a particular organisation of the personality, based on 'psychotic personality' (Bion) and 'pathological organisations' (Steiner). The... (more)
The Anatomy of the Clitoris: Reflections on the Theory of Female Sexuality
Innovative redrawing of female anatomy appeared in the scientific literature and then in the popular press leading up to the Millenium. The surrounding structures of the clitoris, that small,... (more)
Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Politics, History, and Mourning
Today sees the rise of nationalism, the return of totalitarian parties in Europe to electoral success, and the rise of the alt-right and white supremacists in the US. Thus, there is urgency for... (more)
Analysing Patients with Traumas: Separation, Illness, Violence
The focus of this book is on detailed case histories of patients with severe traumas. The author takes us through the successive stages of analysis and gives us a graphic impression of the progress... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World: On The Body
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World: On the Body examines the importance of the body in everyday psychoanalytic practice and beyond. Written by world leading clinicians and... (more)
Beyond Doer and Done to: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third
Beyond Doer and Done to integrates new clinical developments in relational analysis while reformulating crucial themes such as the development of intersubjectivity, the splitting of gender... (more)
Building Bridges: The Impact of Neuropsychoanalysis on Psychoanalytic Clinical Sessions
This volume addresses the issue of the clinical relevance of neuroscience to psychoanalysis. New findings are revealing unexpected aspects of neuroscience and pushing the entire field toward... (more)
Mind, Culture, and Global Unrest: Psychoanalytic Reflections
In this compact and pithy book, the distinguished and prolific psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar steps out of his consulting room to address certain matters of urgent global concern. These include... (more)
Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative
André Green was a leading voice in French psychoanalysis, a brilliant thinker and an innovative contributor to the psychoanalytic field. His writings sit at the crossroads of contemporary... (more)
The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal
The theory of unformulated experience is an interpersonal/relational conception of unconscious process. The idea is that unconscious content is not fully formed, merely awaiting discovery, but is... (more)