Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
Ending Analysis: Theory and Technique
This book, beyond dealing with the theoretical and technical questions concerning the termination of analysis, gives a picture of the particular nature of the psychoanalytic cure in relation to the... (more)
Clinical Seminars and Other Works
This selection of clinical seminars held by Wilfred Bion in Brasilia (1975) and Sao Paulo (1978) is the nearest we shall ever get to experiencing his application of his theories and views to... (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 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)
Subjects of Analysis
In this brilliant contribution to psychoanlaytic theory and practice, the author has once again challenged psychoanalytic clinicians to expand the conceptual envelope that confines and constricts... (more)
D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait
A distillation of painstaking research into the life of Donald Winnicott, tracing his life from his childhood in Plymouth, through his career in paediatrics, to his election as President of the... (more)
Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood
To Freud, female sexuality remained something of a mystery: a riddle and a dark continent. He urged his female colleagues to enlighten him. Many have since done so - and this book is a most vivid and... (more)
Thinking, Feeling and Being
Ignacio Matte-Blanco has made one of the most original contributions to psychoanalysis since Freud. In this book, which includes an introductory chapter to his work by Eric Rayner and David Tuckett,... (more)
Containing Anxiety in Institutions: Selected Essays Volume 1
This is a controversial collection, which makes available to a wider public an important part of the research tradition of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. The author extends her analytic... (more)
Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers
A collection of Betty Joseph's most important papers, exploring projective identification, transference, countertransference, unconscious phantasy, and Kleinian views on envy and the death instinct. (more)
A Psychoanalytic Theory of Infantile Experience: Conceptual and Clinical Reflections
Gaddini, an eminent training analyst, was interested in the relationship between mental development and early body development. In this edited selection of his papers, clinical examples support his... (more)
Impasse and Interpretation: Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline and Neurotic Patients
A powerful argument for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms, and their alleviation through psychoanalytic means.
Elements of Psychoanalysis
Elements is a discussion of categorising the ideational context and emotional experience that may occur in a psychoanalytic interview. The text aims to expand the reader's understanding of cognition... (more)
Theatres of the Mind: Illusion and Truth on the Psychoanalytic Stage
'Theatres of the Mind is one of the finest contributions of contemporary French psychanalysis', writes Otto Kernberg in his foreword to this book. Using the idiom of drama, Joyce McDougall... (more)
Theatres of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness
This book looks at people who react to psychological distress through somatic manifestations, and at the psychosomatic potential of individuals in those moments when habitual psychological ways of... (more)
Human Nature
This is Donald Winnicott's only attempt to write an overview of his ideas. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main... (more)
Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development
Anna Freud's book deals with a most neglected aspect of psychoanalysis - normality. Its chief concern is with the ordinary problems of upbringing which face all parents and the usual phenomena... (more)
Psychotic States: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Psychotic States brings together a number of Herbert Rosenfeld's papers written between 1946 and 1964 dealing with the psychopathology and treatment of various psychotic and borderline conditions... (more)
Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention: Second Edition
Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and... (more)