Psychoanalysis Books
The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Written by a leading teacher and scholar of relational thinking, The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy provides a comprehensive overview of relational psychoanalysis in one... (more)
Three Characters: Narcissist, Borderline, Manic Depressive
It is important to point out that these essays are about character types; it is not to suggest that all borderlines, narcissists or manic depressives are the same. Everyone is an individual and are... (more)
The Cure for Psychoanalysis
This book contains two brilliant essays by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. In the first essay, 'The Magic of Winnicott,' Adam Phillips makes clear the subtlety and wisdom... (more)
Learning from the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Approaches in Educational Psychology
Each of us has an inner world, influenced by experience, environment and the people and places we encounter. As individuals engaged with children and those around them, educational psychologists... (more)
On Wanting to Change
From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.
We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves,... (more)
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works,... (more)
Sex, Death, and the Superego: Updating Psychoanalytic Experience and Developments in Neuroscience
This second edition of Ronald Britton's personal reappraisal of psychoanalytic theories is based on further clinical experience, further study of current neuroscience and continued reflection on the... (more)
The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
The sexual landscape has changed dramatically in the past few decades, with the meaning of gender and sexuality now being parsed within the realms of gender fluidity, nonheteronormative sexuality,... (more)
Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession
In this first-of-kind book, senior psychoanalysts from around the world offer personal reflections on their own training, what it was like to become a psychoanalyst, and what they would like most to... (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)
Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu and the Nazis
In this compelling book, the first in the new Freud Museum London series, Professor Brett Kahr describes how Sigmund Freud endured innumerable emotional pandemics during his eighty-three years of... (more)
One Hundred Years of Psychoanalysis: A Timeline: 1900-2000
A comprehensive timeline of psychoanalysis depicting the major thinkers, theories, publications and events in the history of psychoanalysis throughout the 20th Century, placing them within the wider... (more)
Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction
Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term... (more)
Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond
This book explores the role of bodily phenomena in mental life and in the psychoanalytic encounter, encouraging further dialog within psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the humanities, and contributing... (more)
Pathologies of the Self: Exploring Narcissistic and Borderline States of Mind
Pathologies of the Self explores both narcissistic disturbance and borderline states. For several decades of clinical practice, Phil Mollon has explored and pondered the nature and structure of... (more)
Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer: Volume 1: Personality and Family Structure
This new selection from the papers of Donald Meltzer spans his working life and serves as an introduction to all his key concepts, such as: aesthetic conflict, the claustrum, adhesive identification,... (more)
The Contemporary Freudian Tradition: Past and Present
This is the first book dedicated to the Contemporary Freudian Tradition. In its introduction, and through its selection of papers, it describes the development and rich diversity of this tradition... (more)
Finding the Piggle: Reconsidering D. W. Winnicott's Most Famous Child Case
The Piggle is one of the most famous and beloved child cases in the history of psychoanalysis. A two-year-old girl suffering from terrible nightmares, depression, and self-harming behaviours, the... (more)
Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer: Volume 3: The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst
This new selection from the papers of Donald Meltzer spans his working life and serves as an introduction to all his key concepts, such as: aesthetic conflict, the claustrum, adhesive identification,... (more)
Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference
Racism's external forms, from racial assault to petty discrimination, are readily recognized. However, its internal dimensions are easily overlooked: how can we understand what happens in the mind of... (more)
Working in the Dark: Understanding the Pre-Suicide State of Mind
Working in the Dark focuses on the authors' understanding of an individual's pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special attention to those who... (more)
Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality
Inside Lives belongs to the heart of the thinking and working of the Tavistock Clinic. Its aim is to bring psychoanalytic theory to life, to make it accessible to a much wider range of readers, both... (more)
Dark Side of the Womb: Pregnancy, Parenting and Persecutory Anxieties
Contents:
Chapter 1: MATERNAL ORIENTATIONS - Mothers' Approaches to Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting
Chapter 2: FAMILY CLIMATES - Interaction Between Fathers, Mothers, Babies and Siblings
Chapter... (more)
Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat
Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat examines the themes that surface when considering clinical situations where patients feel stuck and where a failure to develop impedes the... (more)
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
This collection of twenty four volumes is the first full paperback publication of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, in English. The twenty four volumes are... (more)
The Analyst's Vulnerability: Impact on Theory and Practice
This book closely examines the analyst's early experiences and character traits, demonstrating the impact they have on theory building and technique. Arguing that choice of theory and interventions... (more)
Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt: Technical Challenges Posed by Cases of Narcissism and Perversion
The challenges and crises that kept resurfacing in Michael and Batya Shoshani’s work with extremely difficult patients hunted by anxieties of being, and in particular with perverse psychic... (more)
Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development
Trauma, Guilt and Reparation identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to... (more)
The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object
In this book, Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object and examines how psychic survival-of-the-object places the early m/Other at the... (more)
Translation/Transformation: 100 Years of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Translation is at the heart of psychoanalysis: from unconscious to conscious, experience to verbal expression, internal to enacted, dream thought to dream image, language to interpretation,... (more)