Psychoanalysis Books
The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred
What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious... (more)
Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature: Echoes from the Front Lines
This book presents unique insights into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, psychoanalytic work with trauma and perspectives from literature.
Part One... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Maternal Absence: From the Traumatic to Faith and Trust
Experience of maternal absence manifests in a variety of ways and this book explores a selection of its emotional, psychical, and somatic consequences as they relate to an individual's relationship... (more)
Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice
The highly arcane wisdom produced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is either endlessly regurgitated and recited as holy writ by his numerous acolytes, or radically dismissed as unpalatable... (more)
Bion's Legacy in Sao Paulo: Theoretical Applications from the Sao Paulo Psychoanalytic Society (SBPSP)
This collection illuminates the legacy of Wilfred R. Bion in Brazil, illustrating Bion's continued influence on the work of the Sao Paulo Psychoanalytic Society (SBPSP), how Bionian ideas are applied... (more)
Parenthood and Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Shaping the Therapeutic Setting
This book presents a comprehensive overview of psychoanalytic work with immigrant mothers, fathers, and their children, combining clinical examples and contemporary research to explore ways in which... (more)
Reflections on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Thought: The Lisbon Lectures
Over the past decade, the Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society took the opportunity to restructure and redefine their organisation. As part of this process, they invited outstanding psychoanalysts... (more)
Identity Politics: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
Identity politics have taken a strong hold on modern society, in particular online on social media platforms. But to what extent have they contributed to human flourishing? Have they changed the... (more)
On Getting Better
To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we... (more)
Building Bridges: The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis
In Building Bridges, Stuart A. Pizer gives much-needed recognition to the central role of negotiation in the analytic relationship and in the therapeutic process. Building on a Winnicottian... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Social Action: Act Signatures of the Unconscious
Dieter Flader explores how current social and cultural concerns are connected to the unconscious, and how this affects our responses to them. Flader focuses on the role of the ego, assessing how our... (more)
Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition
This book presents the first in-depth study of online misogyny and the manosphere from a psychoanalytic perspective.
The author argues that the men of the manosphere present contradictory... (more)
Psychoanalytic Diaries of the COVID-19 Pandemic: There Is a Virus Among Us
This intimate book explores the experiences of two psychoanalysts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It presents Angelo Antonio Moroni’s psychoanalytic diary and Pietro Roberto Goisis’s clinical... (more)
The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro: Theoretical Analysis and Clinical Application
This exciting and original collection explores Antonino Ferro's post-Bionian Field Theory, expanding upon the analytic work of Wilfred Bion to focus on the intersubjective development of psychic... (more)
Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma: Second Edition
A masterful synthesis of relational and attachment theory, neurobiology, and contemporary psychoanalysis, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame has been internationally recognized as an essential... (more)
Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature: Lawrence and Joyce on Trial
Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature offers a fascinating psychoanalytic reading of four landmark obscenity trials involving the texts of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce. By tracing the legal... (more)
Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning: Communication and the Marriage of Minds
Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning explores the nature and origins of widespread problems of self in modern societies. It examines the paradoxical interplay between the modern world's many... (more)
The Self-Restorative Power of Music: A Psychological Perspective
This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the... (more)
Sublimation and Superego: Psychoanalysis Between Two Deaths
This book integrates a thinking about dilemmas faced in the context of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis today, with contemporary social and political concerns specific to the age of the global... (more)
Subconscious Acts, Anesthesias and Psychological Disaggregation in Psychological Automatism: Partial Automatism
Pierre Janet's L'Automatisme Psychologique, originally published in 1889, is one of the earliest and most important books written on the study of trauma and dissociation. Here it is made available,... (more)
Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory
Sandor Ferenczi's mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn-the patient known as R.N. in the Clinical Diary-is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis.... (more)
Psychological Automatism Two Volume Set: Total Automatism and Partial Automatism
Pierre Janet's De l'Automatisme Psychologique, originally published in 1889, is one of the earliest and most important books written on the study of trauma and dissociation. Here it is made available... (more)
Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind: A Biological Understanding of Human Mental Function
This comprehensive and well-curated collection explores how neuroscience can be integrated into psychoanalytic thinking and practice, reexamining the biological science within psychological... (more)
Psychoanalytic Credo: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts
Developing a psychoanalytic credo, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the scaffolding of psychoanalytic training. Drawing... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Society's Neglect of the Sexual Abuse of Children, Youth and Adults: Re-addressing Freud's Original Theory of Sexual Abuse and Trauma
This book takes a comprehensive look at the understanding and treatment of child sexual abuse in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and in society as a whole.
This book will demonstrate how... (more)
Loss, Grief and Transformation: The Therapist's Personal Experience in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
This book is a timely and relevant book for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who process loss both in their own lives and in the lives of their patients, offering perspectives from a range of... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue
This book vigorously engages Lacan with a spiritual tradition that has yet to be thoroughly addressed within psychoanalytic literature-the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition.
The book... (more)
Madness in Experience and History: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology and Foucault's Archaeology
Madness in Experience and History brings together experience and history to show their impact on madness or mental illness.
Drawing on the writings of two twentieth-century French... (more)
Freudian Thought for the Contemporary Clinician: A Primer on Psychoanalytic Theory
This book uses clear language, modern contexts and key psychoanalytic concepts to exemplify how Sigmund Freud's thinking and legacy is directly relevant to contemporary therapists. ... (more)
Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology
Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology is the first edited collection dedicated to exploring the explicitly phenomenological foundations underlying Frantz Fanon's most important insights. ... (more)