Psychoanalysis Books
Centres and Peripheries of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies
This book is designed to meet the needs of students who seek,
Psychotic Metaphysics
The threshold that Melanie Klein found to exist between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions is the site of a series of transformations - extremely inducing murder or suicide - in which... (more)
Mental Space
This book is a collection of lessons on psychotic experience. A question of experience of living and communicating rather than of lessons in the traditional sense. His contributions are the... (more)
Vision and Separation: Between Mother and Baby
Using not only the ideas of Winnicott and Bowlby, but also drawing on the phenomenological tradition of Cassirer and Susanne Langer, this book examines childhood experience and the nature of therapy.... (more)
The Relational Self: Theoretical Convergences in Psychoanalysis and Social Psychology
The book is divided into four sections. The first two examine current perspectives from psychoanalytic self psychology and social psychology, and the latter two present an integration of... (more)
Thresholds Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Papers from the Philadelphia Association
This interesting selection of papers illuminates the contribution of the Philadelphia Associations to philisophical criticism of psychoanalytic concepts. (more)
The Origins of Love and Hate
One of the most passionate arguments for a therapeutic practice based on the physician's love for the deeply deprived patient. It also advocates a view of human nature congruent with the findings of... (more)
Reproduction of Mothering
New edition (1999). An examination of the formation of gender, from a feminist perspective.The reproduction of mothering is seen from an intrapsychic and intersubjective sense. It investigates the... (more)
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)
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)
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)
'Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis' and 'Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case' (2 Volume Set)
Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case uses newly discovered primary sources to investigate one of Sigmund Freud’s most mysterious clinical experiences, the Forsyth case. Maria Pierri begins with a... (more)
Between Genius and Tragedy: A Psychoanalytic Portrait of Viktor Tausk
Between Genius and Tragedy: A Psychoanalytic Portrait of Viktor Tausk offers a compelling intellectual biography and a nuanced psychoanalytic exploration of Tausk’s character and thought, tracing... (more)
Who Betrayed John Rittmeister?: A Psychoanalytic Mystery from Nazi Berlin
Who Betrayed John Rittmeister? unravels the mystery of betrayal, resistance, and psychoanalysis in the shadow of Nazi Berlin.
Rickels delves into the enigmatic circumstances surrounding the... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Nazism: Language and the Unconscious in the Third Reich
The Psychoanalysis of Nazism explores the intricate relationship between psychoanalysis, language, and the sociopolitical forces of Nazi Germany.
Through a detailed examination of psychoanalytic... (more)
Bion and Psychosis: A Long Road to Clinical Discovery
This comprehensive work systematically describes Wilfred Bion’s work on psychosis and critically develops his contribution in order to arrive at an appropriate and modern understanding of the... (more)
Harry Guntrip: A Contemporary Introduction
Harry Guntrip: A Contemporary Introduction traces Guntrip's early years, his theological and psychological studies, his formation as a psychoanalyst, and his various contributions to pre-Oedipal... (more)
The Psychodynamics and Psychogenesis of Parentification
Why do some of us grow up too soon and spend a lifetime caring for others at the cost of ourselves? In this deeply humane study, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet explores parentification:... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Framework for Civic Renewal: Reimagining Democracy from the Ground Up
A Psychoanalytic Framework for Civic Renewal: Reimagining Democracy from the Ground Up offers a compelling and original thesis: that the global crisis of democracy is not a purely political or... (more)
The Anorexic’s World in Psychoanalysis: Internal Drama and External Corruption
This powerful book, a multifaceted examination of anorexia nervosa explores the anorexic’s internal experience as well as the key role that specific family dynamics play in the development,... (more)