Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Developmental Trauma: A Casebook for Working with Children and Their Families
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Developmental Trauma offers mental health practitioners a transdiagnostic model to support the needs of traumatised children with both internalising (emotional) and... (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)
Mentalization and Literary Form
This book examines the ways in which literary form facilitates mentalization and our ability to be aware of our own and others’ mental states, showing how we can use this awareness to make sense of... (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)
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis offers an overview and exploration of Priscilla Roth’s unique contribution to psychoanalysis over the course of her long and distinguished... (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)
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health: Safe Harbor
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health reflects on psychoanalytic work with vulnerable people during the refugee crisis.
Chrysi Giannoulaki describes her work as a supervisor of... (more)
Adolescents in Crisis: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Challenges of Adolescence
Adolescents in Crisis offers a psychoanalytic perspective on the complex that can arise when young people renegotiate their relationship with the world and their own bodies as they experience... (more)
Perversity, Pornography, and the Psychology of the Male Species: An Overdue Rethinking of Robert Stoller’s Gender Theories
This book presents an overview of present-day psychoanalytic thinking about the perverse spectrum: perverse thinking (disavowing reality), perverse modes of relating (manipulating others for one’s... (more)
Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Supervision: A Contemporary Introduction
In this comprehensive and informative book, Christine Driver provides a systematic overview of the key issues that a supervisor of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy needs to consider and... (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)
Psychopathologies of the Living: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida
Psychopathologies of the Living makes the work of the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida (1934-2002) available in English for the first time.
Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint present key essays... (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)
The Oedipus Complex: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Poul Rohleder presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory of the Oedipus Complex and its standing in contemporary psychoanalysis.
The Oedipus Complex: A... (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)
The Impossible Return – Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning
The Impossible Return – Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning is a work of creative non-fiction and auto-theory. It is part cancer memoir, part psychoanalytic theorizing,... (more)
Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence: Concepts and Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy
Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence presents a comprehensive integrative theory and style of therapeutic involvement that reflects a relational and non-pathological perspective.
Containing... (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)
Exploring Eating Disorders Through Psychoanalysis: Unravelling the Psyche
Exploring Eating Disorders through Psychoanalysis explores eating disorders as complex clinical conditions and uses psychoanalysis to explore the psychological factors behind them.
Humberto... (more)
Essays on Integrative Psychotherapy: Developmental and Relational Perspectives
This book is a distinctive collection of essays on the theory and methods of a developmentally-based, relationally-focused integrative psychotherapy.
In an easy-to-read style, Richard Erskine... (more)