Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalysis and the Act of Artistic Creation: A Look at the Unconscious Dynamics of Creativity
This book explores the phenomenon of creativity and creation from a psychoanalytic point of view, focusing on understanding the psycho-emotional dynamics underlying the artistic creative activities,... (more)
Towards Happiness - A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way
Drawing on a range of clinical cases, Towards Happiness presents an engaging, insightful look at how we define and achieve happiness in core aspects of our lives: work and money, wellness and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious
Written in D. H. Lawrence's most productive period, 'Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious' (1921) and 'Fantasia of the Unconscious' (1922) were undertaken initially in response to psychoanalytic... (more)
D. H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis
This book opens out a wholly new field of enquiry within a familiar subject: it offers a detailed - yet eminently readable - historical investigation, of a kind never yet undertaken, of the impact of... (more)
Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis: From the Melancholic to the Erotic
Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis explores female subjectivity and examines the complexities inherent in psychoanalytic work realized by women analysts with women.
The book... (more)
What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis
What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis explores the impact Nazism had on the evolution of psychoanalysis and tackles the enigma of the transformation of individual hate into mass psychosis and of the... (more)
The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, 1921-1939: Psychoanalysis and Politics in the Interwar Years
Freud wrote 76 letters to the Dutch psychoanalyst Jeanne Lampl-de Groot between 1921 and 1939. These letters are personable, lively, and compassionate and convey his respect and caring for Jeanne,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory: An Introduction
Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory introduces the key concepts, figures and movements of both psychoanalytic theory and the history of literary criticism and theory, engaging with Freud, Zizek,... (more)
Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused, High-functioning People Living Outside of Time
This book takes a painstaking look at developmental trauma as it manifests in group, individual, and combined psychotherapies, tracking the growth of non-abused individuals who have courageously... (more)
Enduring Time
The ways in which we imagine and experience time are changing dramatically. Climate change, unending violent conflict, fraying material infrastructures, permanent debt and widening social... (more)
Beyond Fragmentation: Clinical Journeys in Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
‘Profoundly honest, unflinching in examining her own history as a thinker and clinician, Ingrid Pedroni challenges us to see where we have been and where we have failed, each of us.’ Donna Orange,... (more)
Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender
The increase in the number of non-binary children and adults in our society raises important treatment questions as well as much controversy. It seems essential that analysts and candidates grapple... (more)
James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child
This book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents’ grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on... (more)
Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis
Building on Winnicott’s theory of play, this book defines the concept of play from the perspective of clinical practice, elaborating on its application to clinical problems.
Although Winnicott’s... (more)
Transference, Love, Being: Essential Essays from the Field
Through a series of expansive essays, Transference, Love, Being explores the centrality of love in psychoanalytic practice. Starting with the immersion of the analyst, this book reimagines several... (more)
The Physical and Virtual Space of the Consulting Room: Room-object Spaces
In this thought-provoking book, Deborah Wright examines the role of both space and objects as they become manifest in the psychoanalytic process and looks at how the role of the consulting room in... (more)
The Feeling Intellect: An Essay on the Independent Tradition in British and American Psychoanalysis
In The Feeling Intellect, Steven Groarke explores the overlap between psychoanalysis and philosophy in order to provide the first critical evaluation of the Independent tradition in British and... (more)
Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year
Selecting one sentence from each session every day, Donald Moss has recorded the words spoken by his patients during one year of ‘Covid-time’. The patients conjure a moving mixture of the mundane and... (more)
Psychoanalysis as Social and Political Discourse in Latin America and the Caribbean
This book offers a regional, intersectional, and transnational perspective of psychoanalysis in Latin America and the Caribbean that illuminates psychoanalysis's role as social and political... (more)
Colonial Trauma: A Study of the Psychic and Political Consequences of Colonial Oppression in Algeria
Colonial Trauma is a path-breaking account of the psychosocial effects of colonial domination. Following the work of Frantz Fanon, Lazali draws on historical materials as well as her own clinical... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance: Lacanian Perspectives
This innovative text addresses the lack of literature regarding intersectional approaches to psychoanalysis, underscoring the importance of thinking through race, class, and gender within... (more)
The Omnipotent State of Mind: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This book presents an examination and exploration of the concept of omnipotence, its qualities and expression as a psychic state, its origins in the psyche and its appearance in the psychoanalytic... (more)
misReading Plato: Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask
This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights and reflections on the nature of the human psyche and the human condition.
By approaching the... (more)
Violence or Dialogue?: Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism
Our understanding of terrorism since the events of September 11th 2001 has usually been channelled through the two dimensional lens of religion and politics. This important new work contributes a... (more)
Playing at Work: Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on Technique
Playing at Work offers a thorough guide to the innovative psychoanalytic practices of Vincenzo Bonaminio, as he draws on the work of Winnicott, Bollas, and Tustin to demonstrate an effective method... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women: A Tragic Reading of Politics
Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women applies the "tragic" reading of politics, presented by Euripides in his play, The Suppliant Women, to the contemporary world.
Manolopoulos presents... (more)
Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society
Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society describes leadership as a relationship between leaders and followers in a particular context and challenges theories of leadership now being taught.
This... (more)
Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today: Femininity, Desire and Agency
In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question ‘What do Women Want Today?’ from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem
In this volume, internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts, philosophers, and scholars of humanities examine the mind-body problem and provide differing analyses on the nature of mind, unconscious... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents: College student development and treatment
In this book, Philip Rosenbaum and Richard Webb consider the complexities of working as counselors and psychotherapists for college students, and offer a broad and detailed account of the... (more)