Psychoanalysis Books
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)
The Jouissance Principle: Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious
This book examines the concept of jouissance, a Lacanian term that refers to enjoyment experienced in different ways, from the enjoyment taken in an action that is ethically disapproved to the hidden... (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)
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)
Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice
Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice fills the gaps in current clinical training and theory by highlighting the importance of the analyst's unique voice, creativity, and embodied awareness... (more)
Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Mental Health Practice
Advances in psychoanalytic theory and technique can be usefully applied in virtually all psychotherapeutic settings, as well as in the management of patients in many nonmental health settings, to... (more)
Catalepsy, Memory and Suggestion in Psychological Automatism: Total 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)
Understanding Emotional Problems and their Healthy Alternatives: The REBT Perspective
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is an approach to counselling and psychotherapy rooted in the CBT tradition, and one that has a distinctive perspective on emotional problems. ... (more)
The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis: Neuroscientific Foundations and Clinical Cases
The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis builds a bridge between two different but intertwined disciplines-psychoanalysis and neuroscience-by examining the Self and its dynamics at the psychological and... (more)
The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today
The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today demonstrates the concept of the Infantile, first proposed almost a quarter of a century ago, and the ways in which it has become an indispensable tool... (more)
Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
A decade in the making, the Handbook is the definitive contemporary exposition of interpersonal psychoanalysis. It provides an authoritative overview of development, psychopathology, and treatment as... (more)
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890–1959: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis and Mind, Medicine, and Man: 2 volume set
The two-volume Life of Gregory Zilboorg is a meticulously researched biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the period from his birth as a Jew in Tsarist... (more)
Jungian Analysts Working Across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation
Jungian Analysts Working Across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation gives a fascinating account of the wide variety of experiences of Jungian analysts working in different cultures across the... (more)
Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism
Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and the immense potential of his ideas for thinking about literature, creative process,... (more)
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life
This book argues that the notion of 'wild' analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic notions, diagnoses, and treatment by an individual who has not undergone... (more)
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1940–1959: Mind, Medicine, and Man
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1940-1959: Mind, Medicine, and Man is the second volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and... (more)
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890–1940: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890-1940: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis is the first volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory... (more)