Psychoanalysis Books
The Electrified Tightrope
A collection of exceptional papers by Michael Eigen, selected and assembled by Adam Phillips, that represent 20 years of writing and 30 years of work. The papers examine the tension, caused by the... (more)
The Sadomasochistic Perversion: The Entity and the Theories
In this book Franco de Masi examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism and surveys in detail the theories of other psychoanalysts. He explores the relationship between... (more)
Kleinian Theory: A Contemporary Perspective
This book aims to present an account of the main theoretical concepts in Kleinian theory as they have been postulated by Melanie Klein, together with newer developments and formulations inspired by... (more)
Herbert Rosenfeld at Work: The Italian Seminars
Between 1978 and 1985 Dr Herbert Rosenfeld was one of a number of British analysts invited by a group of Societa di Psicoanalisi Italiani members to conduct a series of seminars and supervisions for... (more)
Transformations: Countertransference during the psychoanalytic treatment of incest, real and imagined
In this study, Elaine Siegel discloses the countertransferential ruminations and associations with the occurrence of incest at various stages during the treatment process over the course of 30 years... (more)
The Violence of Interpretation: From Pictogram to Statement
This translation of Piera Aulagnier's theory bridges the work of Winnicott and Lacan, putting forward a theory of psychosis based on children's early experiences. It presents his analysis of the... (more)
Ordinary People and Extra-ordinary Protections: A Post-Kleinian Approach to the Treatment of Primitive Mental States
This text investigates the development and function of "extra-ordinary protections", created to keep at bay any awareness of deeply traumatic happenings occurring at some point in life. The study... (more)
Psychosis (Madness)
In this volume a number of British psychoanalysts introduce us to psychoanlaytic definitions of intra-psychic and subjective meaning in patients suffering psychotic conditions. Irrespective of the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Case Formulation
What kinds of questions do experienced therapists ask themselves when facing a new client? How can clinical expertise be taught? From the author of the landmark "Psychoanalytic Diagnosis" (catalogue... (more)
The Ferenczi-Groddeck Correspondence 1921-1933
A volume of the correspondence between Ferenczi and Groddeck, two psychoanalysts within the circle of Sigmund Freud. The letters bear witness to the friendship between the two men and reflect the... (more)
The Bi-Personal Field: Experiences in Child Analysis
This book sets out a new a new conceptual system for analysis based on the inner world of the patient and its interaction with the inner world of the the analyst. Ferro takes a fresh look at... (more)
Essays on Otherness
Jean Laplanche is an incisive and important representative of contemporary psychoanalytic theorists. This text presents in English many of Laplanche's key essays and also provides an overview of his... (more)
Character Styles
Johnson shows how basic life issues underlie the severe pathology of personality disorder, the nagging symptoms of neurosis, and the more functional coping and adaptation of the character styles.... (more)
Freud's Models of the Mind: An Introduction
The authors succeed in putting Freud's models of the mind into a historical and developmental framework and show the complexity of his thinking on the relationship between the conscious and... (more)
Narrative Of A Child Analysis
Klein provides the reader with a picture of her work with ten-year-old Richard. Keeping notes of each session, she was able to describe the day-to-day course of the analysis, interpreting Richard's... (more)
Love, Guilt and Reparation
This book shows the growth of Melanie Klein's work and ideas between 1921 and 1945. The earlier papers reveal her intense preoccupation with the impact of infant anxieties upon child development. The... (more)
Envy And Gratitude
Melanie Klein's writings, particularly on infant development and psychosis, have been crucial both to theoretical work and to clinical practice. Envy and Gratitude collects her writings from 1946... (more)
Brazilian Lectures: a1973, Sao Paulo; 1974, Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo
These lectures, delivered in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during 1973 and 1974, reveal Bion in his most vital and challenging mode both in respect of the material he presents, and in his responses to... (more)
The Oedipus Complex Today: Clinical Implications
A collection of papers focusing on the Kleinian conception of the Oedipus complex, how this is now understood, and what effect it has had on clinical practice.
The papers by Ronald Britton,... (more)
Experiences in Groups
A classic study which, by synthesizing the approaches of psychoanalysis and group dynamics, has added a new dimension to the understanding of group phenomena. This collection of Bion's writings on... (more)
The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45
A complete record, including all relevant papers and correspondence, of the psychoanalytic feud between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein.
Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers
The value of Winnicott's work has become more and more widely recognized not only among psycho-analysts but also psychologists, educators, social workers, and men and women in every branch of... (more)
Clinical Klein
An impressive examination of the evolution and contemporary practice of Kleinian psychoanalysis. In this book, the case histories of Melanie Klein and her followers are scrutinised, to examine both... (more)
The Language of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize rigidly into a definitive conceptual system. The need... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Literature and War: Papers 1972-1995
This collection of writings by Hanna Segal shows how the same conflicts between life and death instincts, phantasy and reality, are experienced in the consulting room, reflected in literature, and... (more)
Psychic Experience and Problems of Technique
By examining changes in the patient's experience of 'inner space', this book records the development of the author's understanding of the patient's experience and its vicissitudes. The book goes on... (more)
Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organisations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients
A innovative attempt to create a third position in Kleinian psychoanalysis, in order to explain pathological organisations of the personality.
Transference and Countertransference
When first published, Heinrich Racker's papers were quickly appreciated as a benchmark in the ongoing, although at the time underdeveloped, understanding of the vital importance of... (more)
Projective Identification and Psychotherapeutic Technique
An examination of projective identification and its clinical uses from a Kleinian perspective. The author puts forward the hypothesis that identification is the patient's way of mastering significant... (more)