Psychoanalysis Books
A Critical Companion to Bion: Functions of a Psychoanalytic Personality
A Critical Companion to Bion is an introduction to the extraordinary contributions of W.R. Bion, providing a close and detailed reading of his work, anchored in systematic critical expositions of the... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)