Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Is It Ever Just Sex?
'It was just sex…'
It’s a familiar claim. But it’s also an impossibility, as Darian Leader shows in this delightfully thought-provoking study.
Our bodies aren’t just sticks that make fire when... (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)
Fanon, Psychoanalysis and Critical Decolonial Psychology: The Mind of Apartheid
This groundbreaking book examines the psychological dimension of decolonial thought in reference to foundational texts. Previously published as A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial, this new... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Psychiatric Practice: Premises and Clinical Portraits
In this uniquely intimate and clinical book, Mark Kinet explores the vital role of psychodynamic psychotherapy in psychiatric work.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Psychiatric Practice: Premises... (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)
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)
The Loss of Self: Self-Writing as a Tool in Borderline Psychoanalysis
The Loss of Self considers distinctions and connections between the writing of survival and survival as a mode of being and thinking encountered in analytic work with borderline... (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)
The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck: Psychoanalysis and Religion
The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck provides an overview of the life of Dr. Leo Baeck (1873–1956), a German-Jewish rabbi, theologian, historian and Holocaust survivor, from a psychoanalytic... (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)
Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation
In the 2014 edition of Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, Daniel Shaw introduced a new way of understanding how victims become trapped and subjugated by the abuser Shaw calls... (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)
The Fraternal Complex in the Middle East: Group and Family Psychoanalysis for Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
The Fraternal Complex in the Middle East extends group and family psychoanalytic concepts to formulate hypotheses on the psychic functioning of nation-states as very large families.
Focusing on... (more)
Radical Freud: Reconstructing the Bisexuality Thesis
Radical Freud reveals a radical dimension to Sigmund Freud's sexual theory that has previously been neglected.
Thomas Olver argues that Freud's radical heritage has been transformed into an... (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)
Authoritarianism in All Its Guises: Perspectives on Right, Left and Center
Authoritarianism in All its Guises provides an interdisciplinary assessment of contemporary experiences of authoritarianism.
Drawing on psychoanalysis and critical theory, contributors from a... (more)
Mindscapes: The Psyche in the Landscape
This book explores the links between the psyche and the landscape—on the continuum that runs from our mental world inside to our surrounding world outside. Our sense of self is shaped by our... (more)
Practicing Psychoanalysis in Israel: Seeing Through Blindness
Gabriela Mann's book explores the work of an Israeli psychoanalyst who encounters the trauma and tragedy of Israelis living in an environment saturated with existential anxieties and threats to their... (more)
Psychoanalysis Through the Lens of Narcissism
This critical historical review of psychoanalytic theory and practice reflects on the place of psychoanalysis in contemporary Western culture in light of its preoccupation with the self and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Governance: Discourse and Decisions, Identities and Futures
Psychoanalysis and Governance makes a cogent argument for the use of psychoanalytic perspectives in the understanding of governance, the process of collective decision-making which maintains and... (more)
The Psychodynamics of Trauma and Modern Horror Cinema: I Am What Haunts Me
In this illuminating volume, Carlos Pitillas and Ismael Martínez-Biurrun provide in-depth analysis of contemporary horror films from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Drawing on Freudian... (more)