Psychoanalysis Books
Sigmund Freud’s Inner Divisions: Personal and Theoretical
Sigmund Freud’s Inner Divisions shows how the limits of Freud’s theory are linked to his inner conflicts, particularly those relating to his father.
Ken Fuchsman undertakes a close reading of... (more)
Sigmund Freud on the Way to Paris, 1873-1885: Foundations of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud on the Way to Paris, 1873-1885 poses a question: where does psychoanalysis begin?
Giosuè Ghisalberti considers how Freud’s own development – both in terms of his formal education... (more)
Psychodynamic Approaches in Health and Social Care: Applying Classic Psychoanalytic Work to Contemporary Settings
Psychodynamic Approaches in Health and Social Care sees experienced psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and educationalists analyse classic psychoanalytic papers and accessibly apply them to a... (more)
Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality
Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality bridges the gap between depth psychology and modern sex therapy, offering a fresh, integrative approach to understanding sexual... (more)
Mothers and Daughters: The First Three Years
Mothers and Daughters: The First Three Years offers a new perspective on female development and the origins of mother-daughter relationship pleasures and stresses.
In addition to emotional... (more)
Ferenczi Revisited: Tongues, Trauma and Transformation
Ferenczi Revisited explores Sándor Ferenczi’s most significant contributions to psychoanalysis and their relevance for contemporary practice.
The book covers a range of topics, including... (more)
Art and Psychoanalysis: Between the Dialectics of the Other and Poetic Estrangement
This book explores the concept of estrangement from a psychoanalytic perspective, intertwining art and aesthetics to offer a paradigm of the aesthetic experience.
Gabriela Goldstein suggests... (more)
An Intersubjective Mentalization-Based Primer: Empathy as Competence
This book explores how Affect Resonance Training (ART), as developed by the Viennese psychotherapist Johann Steinberger, offers students and trainees in psychosocial professions the opportunity to... (more)
A Psychoanalysis of Act and Action: An Itinerary through Lacan, Philosophy, and Crime
Psychoanalysis of Act and Action brings together the study of the philosophy of action and Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory.
Drawing on the works of Freud and Lacan, this book examines... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 7 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)
About Human Goodness: Essays on Emergent Psychoanalytic Literature
Human goodness and the associated psychic phenomena are essential trajectories of mental health and well-being, towards which an ethical psychoanalytic work should ultimately strive. This book... (more)
Inherited Fate: Family Trauma and the Ways of Healing
Our families shape who we are. From the circumstances of our conception and the family structure we are born into, to the expectations placed upon us and the love we receive, we are formed by our... (more)
In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living with Marion Milner
Marion Milner lived for the entirety of the twentieth century. By the age of ninety-eight she had written nine books revealing how free time and creativity are vital for a fulfilled life.
Akshi... (more)
Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud.
In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance... (more)
A Social Dreaming Experience at the Time of COVID 19
The book describes the experience of four Social Dreaming Matrices held online between March and May 2020, during the first lockdown caused by the Covid 19 emergency. The pandemic isolated us and... (more)
Marion Milner: On Creativity
This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better—and what they have to do with one another.
The British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1996) thought deeply... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis
With a new introduction from the author, this critical text of feminist theory explores how Freud's work helps us understand the subjugation of women today.
Psychoanalysis and Feminism had a... (more)
Monstrosity and the Psychoanalytic Dimensions of the Uncanny
This accessible and meticulously researched book is a philosophical study dedicated to the psychoanalytic dimension of the uncanny, and the discussions on monstrosity as fundamental concepts to... (more)
Selfscapes, Selfhoods, and Subjectivities: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
This book explores cross-cultural similarities and differences of human subjectivity and selfhood through the concept of selfscapes.
Utilizing an ethnographic and person-centered approach to the... (more)
Video Intervention Therapy: Help in Psychotherapy for Relationships
This book offers a comprehensive guide to using video intervention in psychotherapy or mental health coaching. A video is made of a patient interacting with someone else. The patient and the... (more)
War Trauma: Lessons from Israel
How to work with those traumatized in war? Read this book.
After October Seven, the author explores work in Israel with traumatized children, parents, communities, and soldiers. He offers... (more)
The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst
The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst documents Raul Moncayo’s practice of analysis over a period of 25 years.
Exploring different aspects of knowledge in the work of Freud and Lacan, Moncayo... (more)
Creative Characters
The study of creativity is as old as western thought. In recent times any crisis of confidence is likely to involve anxiety about the loss of creativity – scientific, artistic, technological – and to... (more)
Clinical Fictions: Psychoanalytic Novelists and Short Story Writers
Clinical Fictions: Psychoanalytic Novelists and Short Story Writers is the first book to explore works of fiction written by prominent psychoanalysts.
Broken down into thematic sections, the... (more)
Neuroscience and the Death Drive: The Nature of Symptoms, from Formulation to Treatment
In this book, Adrian Perkel seeks to expand upon Freud’s theory of the death drive by locating it within modern neuroscience, arguing for the centrality of the aggressive drive in the formation of... (more)
Mind and the Body Politic
First published in 1989, Mind and the Body Politic is a collection of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s twelve essays and lectures on political theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, and the theory of biography.... (more)
Systemic-Dialogical Therapy with Individuals: Finding One's Place
In this book, Paolo Bertrando and Claudia Lini provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the systemic-dialogical approach, adapted to the ever-evolving requirements of modern-day therapy... (more)
Lacan on Society: A Radical Archeology of the Social Bond
Lacan on Society is an exhaustive archeological and contingent review of Lacan’s approaches to society throughout his work, seminars, and écrits.
Through a systematic and chronological analysis... (more)
Understanding Lacan's Objet a
Understanding Lacan’s Objet a proposes that we modify the accepted approach to Lacan's ideas and strive to make Lacanian concepts accessible.
Juan Pablo Lucchelli gradually introduces conceptual... (more)
Lacan and the Question of Consent: Why Yielding is Not Consenting
Clotilde Leguil explores the boundary between “consenting” and “yielding” from a Lacanian standpoint.
Starting from the definition Lacan gave to psychical and sexual trauma, this book makes the... (more)