Psychoanalysis Books
Beyond the Symbiotic Orbit: Advances in Separation-Individuation
In this tribute to Selma Kramer, eminent child analyst and colleague and close friend of the late Margaret Mahler, senior analysts explore the continuing relevance of Mahler's... (more)
Human Feelings: Explorations in Affect Development and Meaning
Human Feelings provides a comprehensive overview of the role of emotions in human life. Growing out of the research and writing of members of the Harvard Affect Study Group, the volume brings to bear... (more)
Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views
Female Sexuality represents a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of feminine psychology and sexual identity. First published in France as Recherches psychanalytiques nouvelles sur la... (more)
Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis
In his illuminating introduction, Masud Khan, to whom Dr Winnicott's case notes were entrusted, relates this definite text of Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis to an earlier phase... (more)
Clinical Perspectives on the Supervision of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
A collection of papers on the actual practice of analytic supervision.
Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred
'Why in this enlightened day would one choose to entitle a work Perversion, a term that is becoming passé? The great research published in the last decade or two has taught us that aberrant sexual... (more)
Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life
'This is a study of sexual excitement. It is the fifth book - perhaps more accurately, the fifth chapter in one work - on masculinity and femininity (gender identity), carrying forward ideas examined... (more)
Sex and Gender: The Development of Masculinity and Femininity
In this book, Dr Stoller describes patients with marked abberrations in their masculinity and feminity--primarily transsexuals, transvestites and patients with marked biological abnormalities of... (more)
Collected Papers on Schizophrenia and Related Subjects
Twenty-four papers on or relating to schizophrenia, written between 1951 and 1963. (more)
Object Relations: Selected Theoretical Perspectives
This book presents a concise yet comprehensive exploration of key object relations theories and their relevance in contemporary society. It traces the impact of early interactions with the ‘mothering... (more)
Embodied Psychoanalysis: Body, Mind and Relationships
A practical and reflective guide for analysts seeking to deepen their understanding of the interrelation between body, mind, and the intersubjective relationship. Weaving together theory and clinical... (more)
Otherness in a Fragmented World: Psychotherapy in Contemporary Society
This book explores a key theme both for humanity and for psychotherapy—how we can understand ourselves as a web of relational connections within the wider world that shapes us all.
Grounds are... (more)
Clinical Uses of Dreams in Psychoses: A Psychoanalytic Approach
This groundbreaking work challenges traditional psychoanalytic practice by demonstrating how dreams can be effectively utilized in treating psychotic patients.
The book provides comprehensive... (more)
Exploring Perspectives in Group Analytic Psychotherapy in Europe: Assessing Current Status and Shaping Future Directions
Exploring Perspectives Group Analytic Psychotherapy in Europe examines the theory, practice, research, and prospective developments of group analytic psychotherapy across European contexts. The... (more)
Our Eternal Home: Bion’s Idea of the Self
In this fascinating volume, Meg Harris Williams explores Wilfred Bion’s autobiographical works, analysing their theoretical importance and continued relevance to the personal experience of others.... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love: A Kaleidoscopic View
In Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet brings together decades of clinical experience, theoretical insight, and cultural curiosity to explore love in... (more)
Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis: Mobius Inflections
In Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis, Todd Anderson develops a Mobius model of analytic life in which knowing and being fold continuously into one another.
The book explores... (more)
Explorations of Mourning in Psychoanalysis and Literature: Turning Ghosts into Ancestors
This book explores the conflict between holding on to and letting go of loss,
paying homage to Freud’s classic ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ and building
on its foundation with contemporary... (more)
Perversions: A Contemporary Introduction
Perversions: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive exploration of psychoanalytic theories of perversion, tracing their evolution from Freud through contemporary practice with particular... (more)
Interpretation: A Contemporary Introduction
Interpretation: A Contemporary Introduction invites readers into the evolving heart of psychoanalytic practice, where interpretation stands as both central mystery and transformative... (more)
Gender: A Contemporary Introduction
Gender: A Contemporary Introduction offers a sophisticated exploration of gender through a psychoanalytic lens, moving beyond binary frameworks to present gender as a fluid, kaleidoscopic state of... (more)
The Negative: A Contemporary Introduction
In this comprehensive book, Rakefet Efrat Holzer explores the concept of the negative from psychoanalytic, linguistic and philosophical perspectives.
Efrat Holzer provides a thorough exploration... (more)
Free Association: A Contemporary Introduction
In Free Association: A Contemporary Introduction, Barnaby Barratt presents a compelling and much-needed exploration of the method of free association within psychoanalytic treatment.
This... (more)
Traumatic Narcissism Theory: A Contemporary Introduction
In this illuminating and informative book, Daniel Shaw provides a succinct and highly accessible introduction to his concept of Traumatic Narcissism, describing the psychology of the traumatizing... (more)
Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Contemporary Introduction
his book offers a vital psychoanalytic overview of antisocial personality disorder, a condition that causes great distress to its sufferers, their families, and society.
Following a historical... (more)
Moving from Grievance to Hope in Psychoanalysis: Applied Case Studies
This volume brings psychoanalytic thinking and practice directly into the social forces that shape our lives, covering intergenerational trauma, cultural difference, divisive ideologies,... (more)
Knowledge and Its Pretenders: Perspectives on Freud
In this book, David Bell explores Freud's oeuvre starting with some of the earliest papers. He situates this work within the context of culture and the history of ideas. Covering such key topics as... (more)
Ethical Upheaval, Creative Upheaval: The Actual of Ethics in Psychoanalysis and in Life
In a profound new interweaving of the ideas of Levinas and Laplanche, this book rethinks the origin of ethical capacity in human life.
It elaborates on the implications of ethics at the... (more)
Counter-Time: Temporality of thought and history in clinical practice and literature
This book explores how trauma affects our experience of time, how that experience may not be linear, and how we may experience “counter-time” – a disruption or arrest of time’s flow and a perpetual... (more)