Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
Characterological Transformation
Johnson uses an active treatment approach that draws upon all major schools of psychotherapeutic thought, choosing techniques that serve specific purposes and outlining changes in behavioral,... (more)
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)
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)