Psychoanalysis Books
The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1
A collection of essays showing the richness and originality of Abraham's and Torok's approach to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic literature . Central to their approach is a theory of psychic... (more)
Soul of Wit: Joke Theory from Grimm to Freud
Wit first became a burning issue for German intellectuals after 1671 when le Pere Dominique Bonhours in his Entretiens d'Artiste et d'Eugene informed them that they didn't have any. According to... (more)
Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation
This volume describes ways of understanding the large group of patients who suffer from trauma-based dissociative disorders. The author explores the implications of working with personalities whose... (more)
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.
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)
Communication as an Art of Living: The Philosophy and Practice of Talking with Each Other
How can we listen better to each other? How can we offer criticism without being hurtful? Why do communication recipes never work? In this book, Friedemann Schulz von Thun and Bernhard Poerksen, two... (more)
Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Volume 2: Later Works from Lausanne, Geneva and Rostov-on-Don
This is the second of two volumes of totally new English translations of all the known published psychoanalytic works of Sabina Spielrein, an important early proponent of psychoanalysis—and in... (more)
Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Volume 1: Early Works from Zürich, Vienna and Berlin
This is the first of two volumes of totally new English translations of all the known published psychoanalytic works of Sabina Spielrein, an important early proponent of psychoanalysis—and in... (more)
Unknowing as Truth: Epistemic Inversions and the Recursive Psyche
Unknowing as Truth reframes psychoanalysis as a discipline of recursive hospitality through the lens of epistemic inversion—treating unknowing not as deficit but as the living medium of analytic... (more)
Readings of Jean Laplanche in Process: Conversations Amplifying Differences
This book is a series of interviews with nine Laplanche scholars who expand our understanding of his work and highlight its contemporary importance and applications in psychoanalytic theory and... (more)
Psychotechnical Becomings: Psychoanalysis, Identity, Desire, and Mourning in the Age of AI and Digital Mediation
Psychotechnical Becomings draws on contemporary philosophy and media theory to offer a groundbreaking reimagining of psychoanalysis for the digital age, showing how technology shapes human... (more)
Psychoanalytic Practices and Russia's War Against Ukraine: Reflections and Clinical Observations
This book looks at the impact of multigenerational trauma, severe psychopathology, and ethical struggles through the lens of Ukrainian psychoanalysts working amidst the Russian invasion.
The... (more)
Psychoanalytic Liberation Psychology: Anti-Capitalist Approaches
Psychoanalytic Liberation Psychology challenges conventional psychological paradigms by developing a radical approach where psychoanalysis meets liberation psychology.
Drawing from his... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women: A Tragic Reading of Politics
Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women explores how ancient tragedy illuminates contemporary political crises through a psychoanalytic lens. Through a “tragic” reading of Euripides’ play,... (more)