Psychoanalysis Books
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)
A Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life
Acclaimed Winnicott scholar Dodi Goldman offers an intriguing account of the psyche’s work of imaginative elaboration.
Why does the world feel one way when we are imaginatively alive to it and... (more)
Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis: The Interpreter of Desires
Combining Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Iranian Shi‘ite thought, and Islamicate sexualities, Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis: The Interpreter of Desires provides a groundbreaking analysis of the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Objects Near and Far: Talking Cure
Touching upon the most sensitive nuances of the analytic encounter, Psychoanalytic Objects Near and Far combines a far-reaching theoretical manifesto with an intimate clinical journal to express... (more)
Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique in Freud and Lacan: What Does a Psychoanalyst Do?
Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique in Freud and Lacan contributes to the everyday work of contemporary psychoanalysts through a critical examination of psychoanalytic technique.
Bruno Bonoris... (more)
A Social Ontology of Psychosis
In A Social Ontology of Psychosis, Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes explores how to interpret and apply the concept of the signifier of the Name-of-the-Father in Lacanian theory, particularly in the... (more)
Voluntary Servitude. Masochism and Morality
Le Soldat’s Voluntary Servitude. Masochism and Morality presents an extraordinary analysis of masochism, the subject, death drive and sexual discourse inspired by Freudian drive theory, philosophy,... (more)
Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse: Movements in Harmolodic Space
Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse.
In this psychoanalytic, philosophical and musical meditation on... (more)
Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens
Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and successes presented in Black films over the last five... (more)
Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Masculine and the Maternal: Uncovering the Image of Circumcision in Freud’s Works
In this book, Yael Pilowsky Bankirer reads into Freud's writings with the unique prism of circumcision as a marker for both the formation of masculine identity, and for matricide, the disappearance... (more)
Artists, Writers and Philosophers on Psychoanalysis: From the Couch
Artists, Writers and Philosophers on Psychoanalysis presents eclectic interviews with leading figures in their fields, focusing on the impact psychoanalysis has had on their lives and work, and the... (more)
Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue
Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis presents a dialogue between psychoanalysis and folktales from the Greek oral tradition, many of which have never before been published in English.
Each... (more)
Life Itself Is an Art: The Life and Work of Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be less widely known is that Fromm was a social psychoanalyst whose... (more)
Mourning Freud
Mourning Freud analyses Freud's experiences and theories of mourning as the basis for exploring changes in psychoanalytic theories and practices over the course of the 20th century.
The... (more)
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)
Just About Coping: A Real-Life Drama from the Psychotherapist's Chair
At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie Cawley, is dealing with... (more)
How Philosophy Changed Psychoanalysis: From Naive Realism to Postmodernism
Through this book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Aner Govrin demonstrates how psychoanalysis' engagement with philosophy formed a crucial factor in the evolution of new psychoanalytic theories in... (more)
Freud's Student Years: A Psychobiography
In Freud’s Student Years, Florian Houssier presents the life experiences and inner conflicts of Sigmund Freud from his eighteenth birthday to his clinical practice, showing how these experiences... (more)
Time and the Unconscious: Daring and Creativity in Wilfred R. Bion
Bion’s unfashionable thought is a challenge for our times in which anaesthesia and mass thinking prevail. The themes this book addresses are time and the unconscious.
In the present/past, the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Principles in Psychiatric Practice: A Remedy by Truth
In this approachable book, Mark Kinet offers a unique methodology for integrating psychoanalytic work in the psychiatric setting.
Acknowledging the systemic rupture between psychoanalysis and... (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)
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine all their rivals. From 1890 and through the early years of the 20th... (more)