Psychoanalysis Books
Understanding Mental Objects
In this study the changing meanings of important psychoanalytic concepts are traced from context to context, and underlying theoretical issues are discussed in depth. The text includes a historical... (more)
The Truth About Freud's Technique: The Encounter With the Real
This incisive reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique challenges conventional notions on psychoanalysis and reveals a more personal and humanistic side of Freud. It argues for a return to a... (more)
Slings and Arrows
Examines what practitioners can do to help the victims of narcissistic wounds to integrate, mourn and heal them. (more)
In the Image of God: A Psychoanalystis View
A volume of personal reflections from a psychoanalyst and believer in the Christian faith. He describes how his belief affects his work. 128 pages. (more)
Regression to dependence: A second opportunity for ego integration and developmental progression
This text extends the proposal that regression is a necessary component of the treatment of disturbed patients - particularly those with significant false self pathology. It argues that the therapist... (more)
Classics in Psychoanalytic Technique: Revised Edition
A collection of seminal writings by over 40 prominent psychoanalysts on topics such as: the dynamics of transference, the "real" relationship, the meaning and uses of countertransference, the... (more)
A Quest for Answers: A Primer of Understanding and Treating Severe Personality Disorders
This text examines severe personality disorders from various angles. It covers: diagnosis and differential diagnosis; structure and dynamics; origins and development; evaluation and triage;... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader
What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? The book offers clear and straightforward... (more)
Difficulties in the Analytic Encounter
This book represents an odyssey through the career of a thoughtful and serious psychoanalyst. John Klauber, a strong and articulate member of the middle or "independent" group of the British... (more)
A Primer of Kleinian Therapy
This work defines and illustrates the Kleinian approach to psychotherapy. Previous books on Kleinian approaches have concerned themselves almost exclusively with psychoanalysis. This book... (more)
Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self
Based on a series of clinical studies of schizoid problems, this book is a sequel to Harry Guntrip's theoretical study of the emergence of the schizoid problem, Personality Structure and Human... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self
Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self presents, in a readily accessible form, the overall theoretical position adopted by Harry Guntrip in his two earlier books Personality Structure and Human... (more)
Pre-Object Relatedness: Earliest Attachment and the Psychoanalytic Situation
Explores the primitive (yet highly complex) emotional world of the infant, a preverbal world that predates memory, symbolic representation, self-reflection and verbal description. With detailed... (more)
Personality Structure and Human Interaction: The Developing Synthesis of Psychodynamic Theory
How has a theory of man as a social being to be formulated if we are to do justice to his individuality, to the subtle ways in which his love and hate compete within his relations with others and to... (more)
The Power of Countertransference: Innovations in Analytic Technique: Second Edition
This book re-works current and past ideas on countertransference into a new, interpersonal approach to treatment. The author emphasises mutuality and debunks the idea that psychoanalysis needs to... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology: An Outline of Freud's ideas & their evolution
A simple summary of major psychoanalytic concepts and ideas including the theory of neurosis. The development of Freud's theories - modified by his clinical experiences of success and failure - is... (more)
Masochism: Current Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives
An examination of psychoanalytic views on masochism by such contributors as: Roy Schafer, Arnold Cooper, John Gedo, Helen Meyers and Herbert Rosenfeld
Reading Freud's Reading
Perhaps nothing is more revealing about a person than what he or she reads. In 1938, when Freud was forced by the Nazis to flee Vienna, he brought with him to London a large portion of his annotated... (more)
Object-relations theory and clinical psychoanalysis
A collection of papers detailing the basics and applications of Kernberg's psychoanalytic object-relations theory, illuminating a wide range of clinical issues, including: the treatment of borderline... (more)
The Wolf-Man and Sigmund Freud
It is a well known that the Wolf-Man was the subject of what James Strachey described as 'the most elaborate and no doubt the most important of all Freud's case histories'. It is less well known that... (more)
Lost Angels: Psychoanalysis and cinema
This study takes Freud's preoccupation with femininity and feminine fantasy as a starting point and goes on to explore his differentiation between masculine and feminine forms of fantasy through... (more)
Strangers to Ourselves
This book is concerned with the notion of the stranger, the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own, as well as the notion of strangeness within the self, a person’s deep... (more)
Nations Without Nationalism
Underlying Julia Kristeva’s Nations Without Nationalism is the idea that otherness, whether it be ethnic, religious, social, or political, needs to be understood and accepted in order to guarantee... (more)
An Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary theory and practice
A guide to the main principles and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Designed as an introductory text suitable for a wide range of courses, this account presents the core... (more)
Insight and Responsibility: Lectures on the ethical implications of psychoanalytical insight
This text examines the ethical implications of psychoanalytical insight and the origins of ethics. Topics covered include: how clinical evidence is made up of a mixture of subjective and objective;... (more)
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as... (more)