Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Freud Against God: The Development of Sigmund Freud’s Atheism
Freud Against God traces the development of Freud's atheism, from his youth through to The Man Moses and the Monotheistic Religion, published in 1939.
Christfried Toegel takes a largely... (more)
Revisiting Psychic Bisexuality: The Feminine Within
Revisiting Psychic Bisexuality: The Feminine Within explores the complexities of psychosexual development from a psychoanalytic perspective, challenging traditional ideals and theories.
Viewing... (more)
Psychoanalytic Film Theory: A Contemporary Introduction
In Psychoanalytic Film Theory: A Contemporary Introduction, Ben Tyrer presents an overview of psychoanalytic approaches to screen media, offering a reconsideration of psychoanalytic film theory while... (more)
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)
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)