Psychoanalysis Books
How Freud worked: First-hand accounts of patients
An examination of the work that Freud did with his patients. This work presents analyses of interviews with ten of Freud's patients, in an attempt to find some answer to the controversy surrounding... (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)
How Does Analysis Cure?
"A landmark book which will exert increasing influence with passing time. . .its success lies in the accomplishment of its stated aims."
- Carl T. Rotenberg, Journal of the American Academy of... (more)
Freud and his mother
This text aims to increase understanding of how Freud's relationship to his mother affected his life and work. It explores pre-oedipal aspects of Freud's personality previously ignored by Freud and... (more)
Freud and Forbidden Knowledge
A collection of essays that all use psychoanalysis to uncover the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the western tradition, from the Bible to Hamlet.
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)
D.W. Winnicott
Presents the life, theoretical contributions, and legacy of Donald Winnicott who, as well as a psychoanalyst, was also a child psychologist and paediatrician. The book explains in detail the... (more)
Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies
Aims to provide tools for diagnosing and treating severe cases of personality disorder, including borderline and narcissistic structures. (more)
Psychodynamics and Cognition
Outlines ways that methods and ideas from cognitive and information science can be used to reformulate psychoanalytic concepts and to test them outside the psychoanalytic situation. Based on a 1984... (more)
A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: New Edition
This dictionary provides helpful and incisive definitions which, read together, comprise a sustained commentary on psychoanalysis. The text has been thoroughly revised with an extended introduction,... (more)
Psychoanalysis: Toward the Second Century
Discusses how recent advances in infant research, ethology, cognitive psychology, narrative studies, and neurobiology are generating far-reaching changes in theory and technique. Divided into... (more)
Nuances of Technique in Dynamic Psychotherapy
This book aims to be a synthesis of an object relations psychoanalytic point of view with both classical psychodynamics and theory from cognitive psychology. Integration of the various psychotherapy... (more)
Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones: 1908-1939
Charts the progress of a friendship and the psychoanalytic movement, while also touching upon contemporary historical events. Soon after their first meeting in 1908, Freud's future biographer, Ernest... (more)
Clinical and social realities
An examination of the clinical psychoanalytic situation and social reality. This volume discusses clinical issues ranging from shyness and writing-inhibitions, to transference-love and... (more)
Character & self-experience: Working with obsessive-compulsive, depressive-masochistic, narcissistic and others
Incorporating various approaches from Freud to Klein to Kohut, this text is a guide to understanding human character in terms of self-organisation. Distinctive anti-social character portraitures and... (more)
Freud, Adler and Jung: Discovering the Mind: Volume 3
Walter Kaufmann completed this, the third and final volume of his landmark trilogy, shortly before his death in 1980. The trilogy is the crowning achievement of a lifetime of study, writing, and... (more)
Analysts at Work: Practice, Principles, and Techniques
A collection of 12 essays by American and European analysts which describes the methods and techniques they use in their clinical work. This book includes descriptions of specific treatment... (more)
Adaptational Psychodynamics
A collection of Rado's reflections, theoretical and clinical, over a span of 15 years. Combining Freud's investigative procedure with an application of the scientific method, this work led to the... (more)
Humanizing the Narcissistic Style
Johnson's carefully conceived integrative psychoanalytic developmental theory will enable therapists to make sense of the array of symptoms seen in character disorders and character styles so that an... (more)
My Kleinian Home: Into a New Millennium
Fully revised, and including a new chapter, this is a welcome new edition of a psychoanalytic classic. The extraordinary autobiography of a woman who has had Jungian, Freudian and Kleinian analyses,... (more)
Non-Compliance in Winnicott's Words: A Companion to the Work of D.W.Winnicott
This book is neither a textbook nor a critical dictionary of Winnicott's works, though it can be used a both. It is the culmination of twenty years of study on Winnicott's texts. The book is aimed at... (more)
Self and Others: Object-Relations Theory in Practice
Topics covered include separation and individuation, confronting the grandiose self and the Kernberg - Kohut debate. (more)
From Inner Sources: New Directions in Object-Relations Psychotherapy
Original retail price £35.95. Explores the object-relations world and aims to provide the therapist with a deeper emotional understanding of severe disorders. 313 pages.
The Borderline Patient, Vol 2: Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics and Treatment
This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology. It covers psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and explores alternative approaches. The... (more)
