Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
Philip Bromberg: A Contemporary Introduction
This important volume offers the first introduction to Philip Bromberg and his work, introducing the reader to his groundbreaking contributions to clinical psychoanalysis.
Anthony Bass and... (more)
Narcissism in Personality, Pathology and Psychotherapy
This timely volume questions our understanding of the highly current concept and phenomenon of narcissism, working from a broad psychotherapeutic perspective.
Making a strong case for revising... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings: The Littoral Word
Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings: The Littoral Word presents cutting-edge Lacanian psychoanalytic thought by leaders in the field.
Each chapter is written by authors who, in one way or another,... (more)
Into TA: A Comprehensive Textbook on Transactional Analysis
Into TA brings both beginners and more experienced readers towards a deeper understanding of transactional analysis (TA) in theory and practice.
This book presents the basic models of TA in a... (more)
Queer and Muslim: On Faith, Family, and Healing
What does it mean to be queer and Muslim in a world that insists you cannot be both?
Queer and Muslim is a powerful collection by and for LGBTQ+ Muslims navigating layered identities across... (more)
Queer Psychoanalysis: Minor Clinic and Deconstruction of Gender
Queer Psychoanalysis offers a detailed study of the tensions and contiguities between the field of queer theory and that of Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology.
Drawing on a detailed reading of the... (more)
A Contemporary Return to the Lacanian Mirror: You Are That
A Contemporary Return to the Lacanian Mirror is a discussion on The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience, a capital text within Lacanian thought and... (more)
The Science and Clinical Practice of Neuropsychoanalysis: Unlocking the Mind
In The Science and Clinical Practice of Neuropsychoanalysis, K. Jayasankara Reddy integrates contemporary findings from neuroscience with key psychoanalytic theories, providing readers with a... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 8 Number 1 & 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Esoteric Traces in the Formation of Psychoanalysis: Before and After Science
In this fascinating new book, John Boyle provides an in-depth account of the neglected contributions made by Western esotericism in the formation of an occluded ‘psychoanalytic parapsychology’ active... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason: What Makes Us Human?
The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason examines the ways in which we can use psychoanalysis in order to better understand humanity and explores the... (more)
Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the Self
This revised edition of Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the Self offers a clear, detailed explanation of self-psychology theory, as it was written by Heinz Kohut.
A founder of the Self... (more)
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
W. H. Auden described Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) as “a whole climate of opinion / Under whom we conduct our differing lives.” The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Freud charted... (more)
The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930-1980
This book considers the changing fortunes of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia from 1930 to 1980.
Approaching social history in a psychoanalytic key, Lizaveta van Munsteren argues that the growing... (more)