Psychoanalysis Books
EMDR and the Energy Therapies: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), along with methods from the new field of energy psychology, such as the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), enable the rapid processing and... (more)
The Mind of the Paedophile: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
The Mind of the Paedophile discusses one of the most controversial and misunderstood subjects in the psychoanalytic arena today - paedophilia. A variety of treatments and therapies, including brain... (more)
The Vale of Soulmaking: The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind
The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the "internal object" with its... (more)
Oedipus and the Couple
This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors... (more)
Words That Touch: A Psychoanalyst Learns to Speak
In her attempt to find the words that touch, Danielle Quinodoz gives a succession of illuminating examples to indicate what a psychoanalyst and her patient may experience in the transference... (more)
The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green
This collection of essays explores the concept of the "dead mother" which refers to the process of mourning that takes place in the child following maternal depression, when the child experiences the... (more)
Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
This volume collates Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last fifteen years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. Topics include how the notions of objectivity and... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Mystic
Advocating a return to the spiritual in psychoanalysis, the author backs up this plea with the work of Bion, Milner and Winnicott. His aim is to celebrate and explore the meaning of mystical... (more)
Reverie and Interpretation: Sensing Something Human
A text exploring the frontiers of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of the analyst and patient in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity. The author shows how... (more)
Love, Guilt and Reparation
This book shows the growth of Melanie Klein's work and ideas between 1921 and 1945. The earlier papers reveal her intense preoccupation with the impact of infant anxieties upon child development. The... (more)
Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self-Experience
Each person invests many of the objects in his life with his or her own unconscious meaning, each person subsequently voyages through an environment that constantly evokes the self's psychic history.... (more)
Brazilian Lectures: a1973, Sao Paulo; 1974, Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo
These lectures, delivered in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during 1973 and 1974, reveal Bion in his most vital and challenging mode both in respect of the material he presents, and in his responses to... (more)
Transformations
Transformations continues the investigation of various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice which Bion commenced with Learning from Experience (1962) and pursued in Elements of... (more)
Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
Second Thoughts is a collection of papers on Schizophrenia, Linking and Thinking, and his commentary upon them in the light of later work. Originally composed between 1950 and 1962, it derives its... (more)
The Long Week-End 1897-1919: Part of a Life
The Long Week-End is a reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of Wilfred Bion's life: eight years of childhood in India, ten years at public school in England, and three years in the... (more)
The Unconscious as Infinite Sets: An Essay in Bi-logic
A systematic effort to rethink Freud's theory of the unconscious, aiming to separate out the different forms of unconsciousness. The logico-mathematical treatment of the subject is made easy because... (more)
Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2: Mainly Practice
Includes papers on the interpretation of destructiveness, the use of 'part-object language', the role of the past in the present, and 'acting-in'. 315 pages. (more)
The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development
The collection of papers that forms The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment brings together Dr. Winnicott's published and unpublished papers on psychoanalysis and child... (more)
Playing and Reality
What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that... (more)
Clinical Klein
An impressive examination of the evolution and contemporary practice of Kleinian psychoanalysis. In this book, the case histories of Melanie Klein and her followers are scrutinised, to examine both... (more)
The Language of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize rigidly into a definitive conceptual system. The need... (more)
Freud: A Modern Master: Second Edition
Now available again in paperback. A fine, concise account of the life and work of Freud, which might prove useful to anyone seeking a general overview before plunging into Freud's works. (more)
The Analytic Experience: Lectures from the Tavistock
A useful exposition of clinical psychoanalysis, with particular emphasis on how it affects the patient and the analyst. There have been many expositions of psychoanalysis, but none so deeply rooted... (more)
Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Entering the tumultuous, dissociated world of the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse presents an intimidating challenge for clinicians. But as the authors of this innovative book argue,... (more)
Transference and Countertransference
When first published, Heinrich Racker's papers were quickly appreciated as a benchmark in the ongoing, although at the time underdeveloped, understanding of the vital importance of... (more)
D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait
A distillation of painstaking research into the life of Donald Winnicott, tracing his life from his childhood in Plymouth, through his career in paediatrics, to his election as President of the... (more)
Thinking, Feeling and Being
Ignacio Matte-Blanco has made one of the most original contributions to psychoanalysis since Freud. In this book, which includes an introductory chapter to his work by Eric Rayner and David Tuckett,... (more)
Containing Anxiety in Institutions: Selected Essays Volume 1
This is a controversial collection, which makes available to a wider public an important part of the research tradition of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. The author extends her analytic... (more)
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality
In 1914, Freud wrote in On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement: "Hungary, so near geographically to Austria, and so far from it scientifically, has produced only one collaborator, Sandor... (more)
Love Relations: Normality and Pathology
From adolescence to old age, this work examines the success and failure of sexual love in couples. Amongst other topics, it describes the biological and psychological determinants and elements of the... (more)