Psychoanalysis Books
The freedom to inquire: self psychological perspectives on women's issues, masochism, and the therapeutic relationship
This text presents the work of Ester Menaker. Never a follower of a particular psychoanalytic perspective or dogma, she has always questioned prevailing orthodoxy. The result is a self psychological... (more)
Obsessional Neuroses
A review of the literature in this area with particular emphasis on the work of Freud. (more)
The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, New Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process
This important new work connects evolutionary biological concepts to modern psychoanalytic theory and the clinical encounter. Synthesizing their years of experience in the practice of psychotherapy... (more)
The Freudian Mystique: Freud, Women, and Feminism
An examination of Freud's life and work, which argues that his vision was limited both by the social climate in which he worked, and by personal experiences which he preferred not to deal with. (more)
The Freud Reader
Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-Century life. To understand Freud entails exploration not only of Freud's scientific and psychological papers, but also his writings on art,... (more)
Gender and Psychoanalytic Treatment
This collection of essays explores the significance of gender in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. Areas covered include Freud's formulations on women in the light of object relations... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Transition: A Personal View
Examines the nature of psychological therapy informed by psychoanalytical concepts. The book is laced with clinical examples and informed by classical psychoanalysis, object-relations and self... (more)
The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal
Examines the role of the ego-ideal not only in narcissism but in its connection to psychic life and society. (more)
The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason: What Makes Us Human?
The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason examines the ways in which we can use psychoanalysis in order to better understand humanity and explores the... (more)
Psychodynamic Approaches in Health and Social Care: Applying Classic Psychoanalytic Work to Contemporary Settings
Psychodynamic Approaches in Health and Social Care sees experienced psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and educationalists analyse classic psychoanalytic papers and accessibly apply them to a... (more)
Inherited Fate: Family Trauma and the Ways of Healing
Our families shape who we are. From the circumstances of our conception and the family structure we are born into, to the expectations placed upon us and the love we receive, we are formed by our... (more)
Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud.
In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance... (more)
Systemic-Dialogical Therapy with Individuals: Finding One's Place
In this book, Paolo Bertrando and Claudia Lini provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the systemic-dialogical approach, adapted to the ever-evolving requirements of modern-day therapy... (more)
Varieties of Hope: Stories of Sexuality, Shame and Power
This book explores how hope operates as an ambivalent force in relation to issues of sex and gender, power, and identity in both our private and public lives.
The author blends her deep... (more)
The Lure of the Gaze and the Past: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Edouard Manet's Works
Psychoanalyst Jeanne Wolff Bernstein analyzes the works of the French painter Édouard Manet (1832–1883) from different perspectives. Instead of speculating about Manet’s biography, she links only... (more)
Extending the Psychoanalytic Listening Paradigm: Listening with all the Senses
Extending the Psychoanalytic Listening Paradigm: Listening with all the Senses guides readers through the nuances of non-verbal communication in the analytic setting.
Presenting a dialogue... (more)
Mindscapes: The Psyche in the Landscape
This book explores the links between the psyche and the landscape—on the continuum that runs from our mental world inside to our surrounding world outside. Our sense of self is shaped by our... (more)
Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Masculine and the Maternal: Uncovering the Image of Circumcision in Freud’s Works
In this book, Yael Pilowsky Bankirer reads into Freud's writings with the unique prism of circumcision as a marker for both the formation of masculine identity, and for matricide, the disappearance... (more)
Artists, Writers and Philosophers on Psychoanalysis: From the Couch
Artists, Writers and Philosophers on Psychoanalysis presents eclectic interviews with leading figures in their fields, focusing on the impact psychoanalysis has had on their lives and work, and the... (more)
Freud's Student Years: A Psychobiography
In Freud’s Student Years, Florian Houssier presents the life experiences and inner conflicts of Sigmund Freud from his eighteenth birthday to his clinical practice, showing how these experiences... (more)
The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique
The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique explores how corporeality and body memory can be more strongly integrated into psychoanalytic work.
This book brings together an international... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership attempts to explore the core psychodynamics that appear to characterize Vladimir Putin’s presidency.
Its... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sergei M. Eisenstein's Work: Cinema and Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia
In this insightful book, Alberto Angelini shows the influence of psychoanalysis and psychology on Sergei M. Eisenstein, one of the most celebrated Russian directors, and his cinematic... (more)
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.
In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought: Answering a Question with More Questions
Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and... (more)