Psychoanalysis Books
Group Relations and Other Meditations: Psychoanalytic Explorations on the Uncertainties of Experiential Learning
This book examines the Tavistock tradition of using group relations conferences as temporary training organizations for groups and institutions, and how those can inform and enrich the theory and... (more)
Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existential Loneliness: Matter and Mind
Since the ages of the Old Testament, the Homeric myths, the tragedies of Sophocles and the ensuing theological speculations of the Christian millennium, the theme of loneliness has dominated and... (more)
Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations
This book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of how the digital is transforming our perception of the world and our understanding of ourselves.
Drawing on examples from everyday... (more)
Psychoanalytic Insights into Social, Political, and Organizational Dynamics: Understanding the Age of Trump
This fascinating interdisciplinary work explores U.S. politics since 2015 and offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United... (more)
Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche
Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche offers a bold exploration of the contemporary psychoanalytic field by focusing on key issues through the lens of one of this century's most... (more)
Schizostructuralism: Divisions in Structure, Surface, Temporality, Class
Schizostructuralism draws together insights from psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxist theory, and the divisions and antagonisms that both underpin and distinguish them, to form a new... (more)
Psychoanalysis After Freud: Memory, Mourning and Repetition
This book draws on a number of Freud's lesser-known works to explore psychoanalytic perspectives on memory, mourning and repetition.
It is remarkable that Freud in his speculations on the human... (more)
Clinical Studies in Neuropsychoanalysis Revisited
In the past few decades, we have accumulated an impressive amount of knowledge regarding the neural basis of the mind. One of the most important sources of this knowledge has been the in-depth study... (more)
Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction
Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term... (more)
Psychoanalytic Ecology: The Talking Cure for Environmental Illness and Health
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental psychology, psychoanalysis and the environmental humanities. (more)
Sexuality and Procreation in the Age of Biotechnology: Desire and its Discontents
Through the lens of psychoanalytic thought about sexuality, the book examines changes in the area of procreation and generation, the disjunction between sexuality and procreation introduced by... (more)
Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology
This book aims to integrate different psychoanalytic schools and relevant research findings into an integrated psychoanalytic theory of the mind.
A main claim explored here, is that a revised... (more)
The Unconscious: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications
Weaving together state-of-the-art research, theory, and clinical insights, this book provides a new understanding of the unconscious and its centrality in human functioning. The authors review... (more)
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 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)
Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts: The Salonica Cohen Family and Trauma Across Generations
Through a collection of letters sent by members of a Jewish family between 1925-42, this fascinating book explores phenomenological and psychoanalytical aspects of the Holocaust and its associated... (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)
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)