Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 5 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 5 Number 1
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 4 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 4 Number 1
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 3 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister on Religion: The Beginning of an Endless Dialogue
Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister on Religion examines the dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion through the encounters of two men: the "unfaithful Jew" who founded psychoanalysis, and a pastor... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure: The Turning of the Screw
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the malaise of the contemporary individual by returning the economic point of view of Freudian thinking, the concept of satisfaction, libido, and... (more)
The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning: The Bion/Meltzer Vertex
In The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning, Carlos Tabbia addresses fundamental questions of psychoanalytic theory and technique, unfolding them for the reader in an elegant, passionate, and poetic... (more)
Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis
The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding the... (more)
Who's to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial
Who’s to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial presents a psychoanalytic exploration of blame and collective guilt in the aftermath of large-scale atrocities that cause widespread trauma and... (more)
Bion's Theory of Dreams: A Visionary Model of the Mind
Through a richly detailed close reading of Wilfred R. Bion’s work on dreaming, as scattered across multifarious and largely unworked texts, this book argues that Bion’s thinking can form a unified... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Reflections on Masculinity
In this highly original volume, Gunnar Karlsson offers new answers to the question concerning the relationship between belonging to a specific sex as a male and striving for a masculine... (more)
The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis: History and Contemporary Relevance
This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the twentieth century until today.
Having... (more)
Psychoanalysis, COVID and Mass Trauma: The Trauma of Reality
In this book, constructed as a psychoanalytic diary, the authors reflect on clinical observations from their work with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracking these singular experiences to... (more)
Individuality and Ideology in British Object Relations Theory
Following the work of prominent object relations theorists, such as Fairbairn, Suttie and Winnicott, Gal Gerson explores the correlation between analytical theory and intellectual environment in two... (more)
Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis
In this compelling book, Lauren Levine explores the transformative power of stories and storytelling in psychoanalysis to heal psychic wounds and create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of... (more)
The Marion Milner Method: Psychoanalysis, Autobiography, Creativity
This book traces the development of British psychoanalyst Marion Milner’s (1900–98) autobiographical acts throughout her lifetime, proposing that Milner is a thinker to whom we can turn to explore... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality: A Contemporary Introduction
This important book examines the ways in which same sex desire, or "homosexuality" has been theorised by psychoanalysis during its history to date and the impact of that on clinical... (more)
Underlying Assumptions in Psychoanalytic Schools: A Comparative Perspective
This book offers a comparative study of the major schools of psychoanalysis by exploring their historical development, their differences and similarities, and the underlying assumptions made by... (more)
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London
March 1938: German soldiers are massing on the Austrian border, on the cusp of fulfilling Hitler's dream of absorbing the country into the Third Reich. Many Jews make frantic plans to flee to safety.... (more)
Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis: Rings and Voids
In Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis, Pablo Lerner questions, and takes a step beyond, the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its emphasis on the sovereignty of language and... (more)
Chaos and Control: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Unfolding Creative Minds
This book explores the role of chaos and control in the creative process as well as the difference between talent and creativity. Part One describes explores some of the common biases and pitfalls in... (more)
The Tavistock Century: 2020 Vision
Gathering together an incredible array of contributors from the past century of the Tavistock to cover all aspects of amazing work they do. With chapters from David Armstrong, James Astor, Andrew... (more)
Spiritually Sensitive Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
This book provides an accessible introduction to spiritually sensitive psychoanalysis, an analytic tradition characterized by sensitivity to the spiritual and religious dimensions of human life and... (more)
The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Pere Folch Mateu
The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis presents selected key papers by leading Spanish psychoanalyst Pere Folch Mateu.
The pieces chosen for this book address clinical, psychopathological,... (more)