Psychoanalysis Books
Polymorphisms: Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Polymorphisms presents an overview of key theories, ideas and issues within psychoanalysis relating to sexual and gender diversity.
The chapters consider key topics including the... (more)
Gender, Identifications, and Identities: Dialogues at the Edges
Gender, Identifications, and Identities considers the increasing visibility of sexual and gender diversity and reflects on how this is felt within psychoanalysis.
The international contributors... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts: Culture and Kulturarbeit
A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud’s anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works of fiction and poetry.
Giuseppina Antinucci offers close readings of the... (more)
Anti-Semitism at the Limit: Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis
In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about... (more)
D. W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject
In this volume, the work of British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott is set in conversation with some of today’s most talented psychodynamically-sensitive political thinkers. The editors and contributors... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture
In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees: Bonds and Fractures Across Identities and Cultures
Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees presents a rich panorama of the clinical issues facing those who experience migration.
Thorough and empathetic in its approach, this book... (more)
Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India
In this landmark collaboration, Osamu Kitayama and Jhuma Basak chronical their long-standing collaboration and cultural exchange to survey the importance of familial relationships in Japan and India,... (more)
Passions of Our Time
Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and... (more)
Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe
Ferenczi Dialogues presents the contribution of Sándor Ferenczi to a psychoanalytic theory of trauma and discusses the philosophical, political and clinical implications of Ferenczi’s thinking. To a... (more)
Tell Me the Truth About Love: 13 Tales from Couple Therapy
Drawing on over 30 years of therapeutic encounters with people facing hurdles in their love lives, former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council Susanna Abse takes us deep inside one of the most... (more)
Why Can't We Sleep?
One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades and our bookshelves and browser histories are littered with experts promising to... (more)
Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams: A Reappraisal
Freud always regarded The Interpretation of Dreams, and in particular its thesis that dreams fulfill wishes, as his landmark contribution and the scaffolding of his subsequent work. Susan Sugarman,... (more)
Taking Back Desire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness and Neoliberalism on Screen
Taking Back Desire studies film, television and video art texts through a Lacanian prism to restore a sense of queer as troubling identity and resistance to neoliberal forms of inclusion.
James... (more)
Death and Love: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives
Death and Love brings together notable psychoanalytic and philosophical theorists to explore the connection between death and love.
The book examines how these phenomena shape human existence... (more)
Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD
In Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD, a group of eminent analysts highlight the positive impact that psychoanalytic work and the clinical space can have on children with Attention Deficit... (more)
Bion’s Emotional Links: Love, Hate and Knowledge
In Bion's Emotional Links, Judy K. Eekhoff explores emotion as a bridge between unrepresented and represented states, highlighting the importance of both internal emotional and external relationships... (more)
Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy
Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited explores Freud’s six principal case studies studies - Dora, Little Hans, Schreber, Wolf Man, Rat Man and Young Homosexual Girl - through the lens of... (more)
Field Perspectives in Clinical Practice: A Dialogue Between Relational Psychoanalysis, Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis, and Gestalt Therapy
This book is the outcome of a fruitful dialogue between relational psychoanalysis, neo-Bionian psychoanalysis, and Gestalt therapy on a contemporary growing edge of clinical practice: field... (more)
Dreams and Dream Interpretation: A Contemporary Introduction
Combining the latest neurological research and up-to-date psychoanalytic theory, Dreams and Dream Interpretation: A Contemporary Introduction gives readers a clear understanding of dreams, dreamwork... (more)
Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
This book brings together contributions from leading authors in the field of dissociation to facilitate the pursuit of integrative clinical scholarship, connecting psychoanalytic thinking and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present
This book charts the past and present vicissitudes of psychoanalysis’s relation to education and emphasizes on the necessity of its increased presence in university settings.
Why can fewer and... (more)
Otherness in a Fragmented World: Psychotherapy in Contemporary Society
This book explores a key theme both for humanity and for psychotherapy—how we can understand ourselves as a web of relational connections within the wider world that shapes us all.
Grounds are... (more)
Law, Psychoanalysis, Society: Taking the Unconscious Seriously
'I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' we say in a court of law. 'In a court of law, the truth is precisely what we will not say', says Lacan. ‘If God is dead,... (more)
Extending the Psychoanalytic Listening Paradigm: Listening with all the Senses
Extending the Psychoanalytic Listening Paradigm: Listening with all the Senses guides readers through the nuances of non-verbal communication in the analytic setting.
Presenting a dialogue... (more)
William James and Sigmund Freud on the Mind: Saving Subjectivity
This is the first extended study comparing the philosophies of mind promoted by Sigmund Freud and William James, whose opposing views had profound influences on the development of 20th century... (more)
Dissociative Identities: Attachment-based Approaches to Psychotherapy
Dissociative Identities draws on expertise from practitioners and survivors to explore therapeutic approaches to dissociation resulting from complex trauma. The contributors provide a vivid insight... (more)
Decolonization and Psychoanalysis: The Underside of Signification
Decolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges traditional psychoanalytic frameworks by revisiting Lacan’s conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.
Ahmad Fuad... (more)
Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics: From Norm to Desire
Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics is a consideration of the relationship between LGBTQIA+ politics, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, and queer theory.
The book argues,... (more)
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies is an innovative, multidisciplinary volume covering the history, religion, culture, and politics of Jewish studies and... (more)