Psychoanalysis Books
A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer: Life Stories, Myth and Reality
A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer uses qualitative research to examine the popular myth that therapists are ‘wounded healers’.
Rhona M. Fear presents the life stories of seven... (more)
Symbol Formation in Psychoanalysis
Marisa Pelella Mélega draws on a broad spectrum of clinical and observational work, gathered over many years as a practising and teaching psychoanalyst based in São Paulo, Brazil.
The role of... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma: The Inner Worlds of Outer Realities
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma presents a thorough introduction to social trauma from a range of perspectives, exploring several key themes, specific causes and symptoms and clinical... (more)
Psychoanalysis, the Self, and the World: Postphenomenology, Consciousness, and Death
This book takes psychoanalysis into the 21st century, examining issues of existentialism, postphenomenology, social media, and death and death anxiety that have gone largely ignored in the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Other Disciplines Confront Prejudice: Discrimination Against the Other
Psychoanalysis and Other Disciplines Confront Prejudice: Discrimination Against the Other presents interdisciplinary perspectives on prejudice.
This book considers both the negative and positive... (more)
Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought: From Mourning to Creativity
This unusual book explores the transformative power of liminal experiences in ancient Greek texts, psychoanalytic theory, and the author’s own life, to demonstrate how a contemporary understanding of... (more)
Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis
What does it feel like to encounter ourselves and one another as implicated subjects, both in our everyday lives and in the context of our work as clinicians, and how does this matter?
With... (more)
Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child's Inner Self
This classic edition of Violet Oaklander’s groundbreaking book presents her pioneering approach to engaging with children who enter therapy. A new introduction by Peter Mortola reflects on the ways... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans*
Transcending the sex and gender dichotomy, rethinking sexual difference, transgenerational trauma, the decolonization of gender, non-Western identity politics, trans*/feminist debates, embodiment,... (more)
The Marion Milner Tradition
The Marion Milner Tradition provides a comprehensive overview of Milner’s eight-volume oeuvre for the first time, and celebrates her pioneering achievements both in psychoanalytic world and in... (more)
Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case: Coincidences and Thought-Transmission in Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case uses newly discovered primary sources to investigate one of Sigmund Freud’s most mysterious clinical experiences, the Forsyth case. The book details Pierri’s... (more)
Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference
Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis traces the origins of key psychoanalytic ideas back to their roots in hypnosis and the occult.
Maria Pierri follows Freud’s early interest in... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Science and Power: Essays in Honour of Robert Maxwell Young
Psychoanalysis, Science and Power reexamines the current state of psychoanalysis and science and technology studies as they have been influenced by Robert Maxwell Young’s work.
Robert Maxwell... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman presents a contemporary Freudian-Lacanian assessment of this classic director. This collection is the first to bring together this unique... (more)
A Clinician’s Guide to Understanding and Using Psychoanalysis in Practice
This book provides an intimate portrait of a clinician’s psychoanalytic approach to working in the public health sector with people suffering from acute and chronic emotional pain.
Drawing on... (more)
The Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma in Psychoanalysis: Fear of Madness
This collection addresses the theory of claustro-agoraphobic anxieties and schizoid phenomena. It provides psychoanalytic case studies of the transference and counter-transference dynamic inherent in... (more)
The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task: Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families
The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early... (more)
Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and Mentalization: A Dialogue in Theory and Practice
This book is an account of best practice in psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy (PPIP) and mentalizing, bringing the two approaches in dialogue in relation to infancy.
While being... (more)
Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child: Animation, Play, and Creative Life
Toy Story and the Inner World of the Childoffers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of toys and play within the development of film and animation.
The author takes the reader on a... (more)
Freud and Jung on Religion
In this outstanding book, originally published in 1997, and subsequently translated into many languages, Michael Palmer presents a detailed and comparative study of the two most famous theories of... (more)
The American Dream and American Cinema in the Age of Trump: From Object Relations to Social Relations
The American Dream and American Cinema in the Age of Trump uses both film theory and insights from object relations theory in order to examine how recent films address and reflect the state of the... (more)
The Emergent Container in Psychoanalysis: Experiencing Absence and Future
Drawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores ‘Absence’ and ‘Future’ in the context of... (more)
Modern Ego Psychology and Human Sexual Experience: The Meaning of Treatment
This text examines human sexuality through psychoanalytic theory and modern ego psychology, which looks at emotional meaning and its organization in symbolic representations of affect as organized by... (more)
Psyche, Culture, World: Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy
Across the array of topics explored in this comprehensive volume, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues for a fundamental return to the question and meaning of existence. Drawing on the... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Contemporary Discontents: A Time of Technology, Fanaticism and Pandemics
Ricardo Rubinstein explores the contemporary culture and its discontents – including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics – through a psychoanalytic lens.
Each... (more)
Growing Through the Erotic Transference: An Analysand's Journey
The book offers an in-depth case study of the erotic transference experienced by a female analysand with her male analyst, exploring how the shifting phases of erotic transference help the analysand... (more)
Clara M. Thompson’s Early Years and Professional Awakening: An American Psychoanalyst (1893-1933)
In the first of this two-volume biography, Ann D’Ercole tells the story of Clara M. Thompson, drawing extensively on unpublished archival interviews and correspondence, to provide a full and complex... (more)
Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body with Richard Kearney
This edited collection responds to Richard Kearney’s recent work on touch, excarnation, and embodiment, as well as his broader work in carnal hermeneutics, which sets the stage for his return to and... (more)
From Budapest to Psychoanalysis: Three Portraits and their Analytic Frames
This book follows the personal and professional journeys of three Jewish women from Budapest, originally classmates in the same high school. The book shows how they and their families were marked by... (more)
Attachment, Sexuality, Power: Oedipal Theory as Regulator of Family Affection in Freud's Case of Little Hans
In Attachment, Sexuality, Power, Jerome C. Wakefield challenges established views of Freudian psychoanalysis by applying Foucault’s concept of ‘power/knowledge’ to Freud’s case of Little Hans,... (more)