Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalytic Intersections: Selected Writing of the Austen Riggs Center Erikson Institute Visiting Scholar Program
Psychoanalytic Intersections examines the influence and legacy of the Austen Riggs Center, one of the oldest psychoanalytically oriented psychiatric hospitals in America, and home of the Erikson... (more)
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.
In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia... (more)
Different Bodies: Deconstructing Normality
'A revolution is underway in how we think about human variation. It has the potential to transform the social and political landscape, sweeping away walls and fences that stop so many people from... (more)
Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures
John Forrester's passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his students at the University of Cambridge, his range... (more)
Negativity in Psychoanalysis: Theory and Clinic
Negativity in Psychoanalysis examines the role of negativity in psychoanalytic theory and its application in clinical settings.
While theories around negativity and death drive have become... (more)
Dialogues between Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Relational Space of the Consulting Room Through the Senses
Dialogues Between Psychoanalysis and Architecture explores the multisensory space of therapy, real or virtual, and how important it is in providing the container for the therapeutic relationship and... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought: Answering a Question with More Questions
Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and... (more)
Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema
This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while... (more)
Against White Interiority: A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason
This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd. Through a set of managerial and therapeutic... (more)
Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery
An Independent Book of the Month Penises, and the things people do with them, have been subjects of controversy for a long time. This book examines how one thing that some people do to... (more)
The Performance Therapist and Authentic Therapeutic Identity: Coming into Being
Exploring what it means to be an authentic therapist in the present day, Sara London playfully melds together the tenets of performance art and psychoanalytic theory to advance the hopeful new notion... (more)
Currere and Psychoanalytic Guided Regression: Revisiting the Kent State Shootings
This book revisits the 1970 Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, using a new approach of currere and psychoanalytic guided regression. Drawing on a... (more)
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how psychoanalysis... (more)
What Is Sexual Difference?: Thinking with Irigaray
Luce Irigaray has written that sexual difference is one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our age. Spanning metaphysics, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis, her work examines how... (more)
The End of Analysis: The Dialectics of Symbolic and Real
This book interrogates the end of analysis in psychoanalytic thought from Freud to Lacan. It demonstrates that the notions of mourning, renunciation, liquidation of transference, and traversal of... (more)
Maternal Subjectivity: A Dissociated Self-State
In this book, Ellen Toronto reveals the dissociation of maternal subjectivity from human experience and provides a psychoanalytic exploration of the (non-)history of motherhood to make possible an... (more)
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
Hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and a leading figure of 1960s counterculture and liberation movements, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse is amongst the most renowned and controversial thinkers of... (more)
Sigmund Freud: A Contemporary Introduction
In this clear and concise volume, Susan Sugarman introduces the work of Sigmund Freud and keenly illustrates the impact his pioneering contributions have had on the way we think about ourselves and... (more)
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age: The Fierce Urgency of Now
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse.
Presented in two... (more)
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe: Narrative Assemblages of Self Analysis, Life Writing, and Fiction
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literature, and the visual arts of the late 1800s and... (more)
Wittgenstein's Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games
Wittgenstein’s Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games presents a dialogue between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author Françoise Davoine, and Davoine’s patients with extreme... (more)
Witnessing and Psychoanalysis: As If It Never Happened
Witnessing and Psychoanalysis intertwines aspects of the history of psychoanalysis with the development of Philippe Réfabert’s own thinking and clinical practice.
Réfabert’s work invites... (more)
Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality: An Essay on Psychopolitics
Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality traces the origins of the relationship between the morality of the super-ego and the destructive impulse of the death drive in the liberal... (more)
Freud's Thinking: An Introduction
In this brief but comprehensive introduction to Freud's theories, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provides a step-by-step overview of his ideas regarding the unconscious, the cure, sexuality, drives, and... (more)
Testimony and Witnessing in Psychoanalysis: A Literary and Philosophical Perspective
In this fascinating volume, Zipi Rosenberg Schipper approaches the fundamental topic of testimony, seeking to recognize its value as a distinct and vital function in psychoanalytic work, separate... (more)
Time in Practice: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Listening Differently
Time In Practice: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Listening Differently is an original exploration of diverse ways in which individuals ‘live’ time, consciously and unconsciously. Challenging the... (more)
How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers: Musings on Media Psychoanalysis
An investigation into how the fields of mental health and media can work together more collaboratively. Brett Kahr is well-known and was previously Resident Psychotherapist at the B.B.C. Explores... (more)
Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity: Sade Reloaded
Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity considers both the vast realm of sexual diversities emerging under capitalism and outlines what a psychoanalytic clinic that considers these diversities... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen: The Year the Cinemas Closed
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen examines the impact of cinema closures and the shift to small-screen consumption on our aesthetic and subjective desires during the Covid-19 pandemic from a... (more)
Schizostructuralism: Divisions in Structure, Surface, Temporality, Class
Each chapter represents the workings of a theory or concept. Relates system to class and key psychanalytic concepts. Contains diagrams to illustrate systems described. (more)