Psychoanalysis Books
Genius After Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
Develops a new psychoanalytic theory of genius, a concept that is often invoked and pervasive in popular culture but which is rarely scrutinized in depth.
In the absence of this scrutiny, genius... (more)
For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience can shed light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art.
Through neuroscienfitic and... (more)
The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies
Over the past decades, psychosocial studies has demonstrated its strengths and influence across diverse sites of theory and practice; it continues to grow as an area of transdisciplinary research... (more)
Assessing and Treating Emotionally Inexpressive Men
What if your new client, a man in his early 40s, cannot answer basic questions in your initial assessment interview? You were aware that many men do not like to talk about their feelings, but this... (more)
Sigmund Freud: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
Sigmund Freud’s name is known throughout the world. He opened up the world of the unconscious, so people can understand themselves so much better than before. His unique ideas are discussed in... (more)
The Fractured Subject: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud
The Fractured Subject investigates the relationship of the work of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, centered around the concept of the fractured subject. Through a reading of Benjamin’s work on... (more)
The Politics and Psychoanalysis of Comedy
This book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how humor is shaped by unconscious social and psychological factors within a particular cultural and historical context. Updating Freud’s work... (more)
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears explores the intersection of sport and psychoanalysis, emphasizing the often-overlooked psycho-social... (more)
Understanding Human Life through Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Tragedy: Explorations of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus
Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens,... (more)
The Death Drive: A Contemporary Introduction
This comprehensive yet accessible book analyses the clinical and historical experiences that led to the radical, complex and fundamental psychoanalytic concept of the death drive.
In The Death... (more)
The Marquis de Puységur, Artificial Somnambulism, and the Discovery of the Unconscious Mind: Memoirs to Serve the History and Establishment of Animal Magnetism
The Marquis de Puységur, Artificial Somnambulism, and the Discovery of the Unconscious Mind presents the first full English translation of a foundational text in the history of psychodynamic... (more)
Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking: Critical Edition and Readings of Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle stands as a foundational text in psychoanalysis, delving into profound questions about life, death, pleasure and pain. Through a combination of... (more)
Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish
There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This... (more)
The Art of Listening
Though thought of as a brilliant social commentator, Erich Fromm was first and foremost one of the great psychoanalysts of our time. These posthumous writings combine two aspects of Fromm's thinking,... (more)
Self-in-Relationship Psychotherapy in Action: Individual, Couple, Family and Child Psychotherapy
This book presents a comprehensive guide to applying Meier and Boivin's Self-in-Relationship Psychotherapy model to clinical work with individuals, couples, families and children.
The central... (more)
The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social sciences. But it is also, inseparably, a clinical practice and... (more)
Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach
Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 6 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)
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to... (more)
Bringing Freud to America: Publishers, Pirates and the Popularization of His Ideas
In 1900, hardly anyone in America had heard of Sigmund Freud, but by 1920, with his books translated and distributed widely in the country, nearly everyone had. This is the story of the translators,... (more)
An Experiment in Leisure
'Before I began this experiment I had always been haunted by the feeling that the surface of life, what everyone said about it, was quite different from the reality of life, that the important things... (more)
Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Psychosis: A Case of Catatonia and Discussion
This book explores the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient with psychosis from a range of different psychotherapeutic perspectives.
The psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic individuals is... (more)
Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen: Working with the Obstructive Object
Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen examines Eigen’s rich phenomenological work on the Obstructive Object.
The contributors to this collection explore the core theme... (more)
Towards a Transtheoretical Definition of Countertransference: Re-visioning the Clinician's Intersubjective Experience
This book explores the analyst’s countertransference experience in clinical settings from a number of theoretical perspectives in order to develop a transtheoretical definition of... (more)
The Story of Original Loss: Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis
This book explores the universal human existential trauma of "original loss," a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately... (more)
Subjective Experience: Its Fate in Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind
Morris N. Eagle explores the understanding and role of subjective experience in the disciplines of psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of mind.
Elaborating how different understandings of... (more)
Schizophrenia: A Contemporary Introduction
Schizophrenia: A Contemporary Introduction provides a vital overview of psychoanalytic work with patients dealing with schizophrenia, highlighting the many benefits of this approach and introducing... (more)
Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction: An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler
In Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction, Bret Alderman puts forth a compelling thesis: Deconstruction tells a mythic story. Through an attentive examination of multiple texts and literary... (more)
The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud
The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis presents a unique and provocative approach to the assimilation of these two disciplines while offering a thorough assessment of the unconscious from... (more)
A Field-Centred Approach to Gestalt Therapy: Agency and Response-ability in a Changing World
In Gestalt therapy, sociological, political, and economic research is often neglected or ignored. Drawing on analyses about current societal conditions, this book considers that there is no such... (more)