Psychoanalysis Books
Making a Difference in Patients' Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting
Within the title of her book, "Making a Difference in Patients' Lives", Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its... (more)
Sitegeist - Number 2 (Spring 2009) - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Sitegeist is a space for thinking and questioning philosophy and psychoanalysis; it aims at a change in Geist - spirit, mind, intellect, wit, genius and morale. It seeks to contribute to a renewal of... (more)
Playing Pygmalion: How People Create One Another
We create the characters that people our lives. Although others appear to us to be who they just are, there are complicated unconscious psychological processes that lead us to experience people in... (more)
Sigmund Freud and the History of Anna O.: Re-Opening a Closed Case
Anna O. was the famous 'first patient' of psychoanalysis whose treatment paved the way for Freud's subsequent work. But in recent years many historians of psychoanalysis have come to view this case... (more)
The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road
Rethinking the importance of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural theorists, film and visual theorists,... (more)
Guilt and Its Visissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality
How do psychoanalysts explain human morality? "Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality" focuses on the way Melanie Klein and successive generations of her followers pursued... (more)
Constructions and the Analytic Field: History, Scenes and Destiny
Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their task more of a... (more)
Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation
Drawing on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology, and cognitive science, "Radical Pedagogy" articulates a new theory of identity that explains how developing students' identities is a... (more)
The Future of Psychoanalysis (Hardback)
See catalogue number 26856 for the paperback edition. "The Future of Psychoanalysis" explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more... (more)
9/11 as a Collective Trauma and Other Essays on Psychoanalysis and Society
This collection of essays tells of the psychic structure of suicide bombers and the psycho-political causes and consequences of the Iraq war, considers the psychological meaning of 9/11 for the world... (more)
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind
Reflects the author's evolving view of how biology has revolutionized psychiatry and psychology and how potentially could alter modern psychoanalytic thought. (more)
Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein
"The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein" explores the literary aspects of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic tradition that has come to be known as British Object Relations... (more)
James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis:
From its very beginning, psychoanalysis sought to incorporate the aesthetic into its domain. Depite Joyce's deliberate attempt to resist this powerful hermeneutic, his work has been confronted by a... (more)
The Dogma of Christ: And Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture
A little known collection which deserves a much wider readership, this reissue of The Dogma of Christ will enhance an already great man's reputation. (more)
Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful: Alcoholism, Addiction and Early Recovery
Alcoholism is a lifelong condition from which there is no cure. Chris McCully does not offer warnings or exhortations, but gives witness to the banal, terrifying and commonplace nature of addiction,... (more)
Mapping the Mind: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
This reissued classic text is a comprehensive guide to the basics that shows simply how things work. Each chapter begins with a precis to relate the contents to the wider context and the book ends... (more)
Donald Winnicott The Man: Reflections and Recollections
The Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture given by Joyce McDougall.
This lecture is an annual event designed for a wide audience of professionals and others involved with children. These lectures... (more)
Constructing and Deconstructing Woman's Power
Constructing and Deconstructing Woman’s Power explores power and gender issues from a variety of psychoanalytic, as well as social, cultural and philosophical perspectives. The first three papers... (more)
The Trauma of Freud: Controversies in Psychoanalysis
Despite its aloofness from ethical questions, psychoanalysis has attracted to itself an extraordinary degree of sectarian bitterness. Original thinkers have become condemned as dissidents. This title... (more)
Pluralism in Self Psychology: Progress in Self Psychology: Vol. 15
This text conveys the rich pluralism of contemporary self psychology with respect to a central theoretical and clinical issue: the nature of the self and the manner in which is can best be studied.... (more)
The Dimensions of Dreams: The Nature, Function and Interpretation of Dreams
One encyclopaedic volume of the vast knowedge modern science has been able to amass abou the world of dreams since Freud first published his groundbreaking Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. 431 pages. (more)
Are you considering psychoanalysis?:
Explains the nature, schools, procedures, and goals of psychoanalysis to assi the prospective patient in understanding, accepting, and successfully experiencing the therapeutic process. (more)
Psycho-Analytic Object Relations Therapy
Written for the student and beginner, this book explains the basic clinical concepts, practices and principles of psychoanalytic object relations therapy. Basic concepts, technical considerations in... (more)