Psychoanalysis Books
Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
In what ways is comedy subversive? This vital new book critically considers the importance of comedy in challenging and redefining our relations to race and racism through the lens of political... (more)
The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
'Whiteness' is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications... (more)
The Sound of the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis as Music
In this book, Ludovica Grassi explores the importance of music in psychoanalysis, arguing that music is a basic working tool for psyche, as words are composed of sound, rhythm and intonation more... (more)
Eigen in Seoul Volume Three: Pain and Beauty, Terror and Wonder
Between 2007 and 2011, Michael Eigen gave three seminars in Seoul, each running over three days and covering different aspects of psychoanalysis, spirituality and the human psyche. This book is based... (more)
Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis: Theoretical Basis and Experiences through Working Parties
This book offers different theoretical approaches about what clinical research is.
Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis is a unique contribution to the attempts to bridge the gap between... (more)
Ferenczi on Freud’s Couch: A Finished Analysis?
This fascinating book assesses Sandor Ferenczi's role in the history of psychoanalysis, examining his personal analysis with Freud, the father of the discipline.
The book delves into archival... (more)
Through a Screen Darkly: Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic
This book offers real-time, intimate reflections on Dr. Friedberg's patients as they struggle with COVID-19 and its disruptive, dispiriting fallout.
Through a Screen Darkly identifies the... (more)
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in... (more)
Peace Building Through Women’s Health: Psychoanalytic, Sociopsychological, and Community Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This book is an examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through psychoanalytic, sociopsychological, and nationalistic lenses, highlighting the successes and the hurdles faced by one... (more)
The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic
We are fed at the breast of culture, not wholly but to differing degrees. The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic focuses on the formative influence of cultural... (more)
Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline: In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel
The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of... (more)
Change Through Time in Psychoanalysis: Transformations and Interventions: The Three Level Model
Change Through Time in Psychoanalysis presents a new stage of the work done through the IPA Committee on Clinical Observation between 2014 and 2020-the advances in our method, the Three Level Model... (more)
The Dreams of Mabel Dodge: Diary of an Analysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe
In 1916, salon host Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe in New York, recording 142 dreams during her six-month treatment. Her dreams, as well as Jelliffe's handwritten notes... (more)
Identification in Psychoanalysis: A Comprehensive Introduction
This fascinating book offers an in-depth exploration of the gradual development of the concept of identification as it has evolved in the Freudian tradition of psychoanalysis.
Featuring a... (more)
The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The... (more)
Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process
Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process explores a previously neglected area in the field of psychoanalysis, addressing undertheorized concepts on... (more)
Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society
Originally published in the European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP), the essays in this volume are a set of responses to the coronavirus crisis by distinguished philosophers and psychoanalysts from... (more)
Psychotherapy Under the Influence of Georges Bataille: From Social Theory to Clinical Practice
This fascinating book applies social theorist Georges Bataille's revolutionary thinking to psychotherapy, offering clinicians a new and valuable context for practicing therapy.
In adding... (more)
Vitalization in Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Being and Becoming
In Vitalization in Psychoanalysis, Schwartz Cooney and Sopher develop and explore the concept of vitalization, generating new ways of approaching and conceptualizing the psychoanalytic... (more)
New Frontiers of Relational Thinking in Psychoanalysis: A Meta-Theory of Being and Becoming
New Frontiers of Relational Thinking in Psychoanalysis aims to take the reader into the depths of their humanity, to promote a creative process that the author calls 'consistency'. Consistency is a... (more)
An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice looks at each individual as a motivated doer doing, seeking, feeling, and intending, and relates development, sense of self, and... (more)
Healing, Rebirth and the Work of Michael Eigen: Collected Essays on a Pioneer in Psychoanalysis
This important book features collected essays on the distinguished psychoanalyst Dr Michael Eigen, who is an influential innovator within and beyond psychoanalysis.
Drawing on the ideas of Bion,... (more)
Shame, Temporality and Social Change: Ominous Transitions
There is a broad consensus that we are in a time of profound transition. There is worldwide political and social turbulence, with an underlying loss of hope and confidence about the future.... (more)
Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer: Volume 3: The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst
This new selection from the papers of Donald Meltzer spans his working life and serves as an introduction to all his key concepts, such as: aesthetic conflict, the claustrum, adhesive identification,... (more)
Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer: Volume 2: Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis
This new selection from the papers of Donald Meltzer spans his working life and serves as an introduction to all his key concepts, such as: aesthetic conflict, the claustrum, adhesive identification,... (more)
Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer: Volume 1: Personality and Family Structure
This new selection from the papers of Donald Meltzer spans his working life and serves as an introduction to all his key concepts, such as: aesthetic conflict, the claustrum, adhesive identification,... (more)
The Sublime in Everyday Life: Psychoanalytic and Aesthetic Perspectives
Notions of the sublime are most often associated with the extraordinary, and include the intra-psychic, high-cultural and exceptional occurrences of elation and exaltation as part of the experience.... (more)
A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics
A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics explores how empathy once shaped the collective unconscious, before being replaced by rampant individualistic drive to... (more)
Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Narrative in Psychoanalysis: The Creation of Intimate Fictions
This book is of and about psychoanalytic stories. It describes the personal, theoretical, and cultural stories that patients and analysts bring, create, and modify in analytic work. It shows how the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Writing, Cinema and the Arts: Facing Beauty and Loss
"Why are we so fascinated by beauty?" is a question many of us have asked ourselves, as have many who came before us. This book investigates the moment of ecstatic solitude in which everyone can... (more)