Psychoanalysis Books
The Analytic Attitude
'It is my aim in this book, writes Dr Schafer, 'to clarify the intellectual and emotional attitude adopted by the analyst at work.'
"The analytic attitude" ranks as one of Freud's greatest... (more)
The Work of Hanna Segal: A Kleinian Approach to Clinical Practice
A selection of Hanna Segal's work from 1950 to 1978. (more)
Anxiety: Clarification, Critique and Update
A much-needed exploration of anxiety from a variety of outlooks: conceptual, developmental, cultural, and clinical – from both the patient and the analyst’s viewpoint. Ten original papers from ten... (more)
The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis: Further Papers of Malcolm Pines
The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis presents a selection of papers from Malcolm Pines’s long career, documenting his profound contribution to group analysis and its... (more)
Knowledge and Its Pretenders: Perspectives on Freud
In this book, David Bell explores Freud's oeuvre starting with some of the earliest papers. He situates this work within the context of culture and the history of ideas. Covering such key topics as... (more)
Reinventing Psychoanalysis for the Great Unknown: The Never-Ending Challenge
This book explores extreme experiences in psychoanalysis and examines how to work with and understand such experiences both theoretically and practically.
It invites readers into new,... (more)
Philip Bromberg: A Contemporary Introduction
This important volume offers the first introduction to Philip Bromberg and his work, introducing the reader to his groundbreaking contributions to clinical psychoanalysis.
Anthony Bass and... (more)
Narcissism in Personality, Pathology and Psychotherapy
This timely volume questions our understanding of the highly current concept and phenomenon of narcissism, working from a broad psychotherapeutic perspective.
Making a strong case for revising... (more)
Mentalizing and Group Analysis
Mentalizing and Group Analysis presents a synthesis of group analysis and Mentalization-Based Group Therapy (MBT-G).
Sigmund Karterud brings together writing from the course of a career in group... (more)
Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention: Second Edition
Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and... (more)
Creativity and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Times of War, Exile, and Trauma
Creativity and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Times of War, Exile, and Trauma draws upon decades of clinical experience to illuminate the unique challenges and profound insights that emerge when... (more)
Using Psychoanalysis to Understand and Address AI Bias: Refractions in the Digital Mirror
In Using Psychoanalysis to Understand and Address AI Bias: Refractions in the Digital Mirror, Karyne E. Messina uses a psychoanalytic lens to explore the subconscious forces driving AI... (more)
The Defenses in Psychoanalysis: Theoretical Concepts to Empirical Research
The Defenses in Psychoanalysis explores the nature and assessment of defense mechanisms through an integration of psychoanalytic theory and empirical research in contemporary... (more)
Remembrances of Arnold Wm. Rachman: Sándor Ferenczi Scholar and Psychoanalys
This book explores the implications of Arnold Rachman’s work in interpreting and applying Sándor Ferenczi’s approach to psychoanalysis to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Drawing... (more)
Ferenczi Revisited: Tongues, Trauma and Transformation
Ferenczi Revisited explores Sándor Ferenczi’s most significant contributions to psychoanalysis and their relevance for contemporary practice.
The book covers a range of topics, including... (more)
Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and Attachment
Relationships in Development is both a clinical resource and a vital intellectual history - a clear account of how research about infancy transforms psychotherapy practice and an authoritative survey... (more)
Creating a Human Psychoanalytic Setting: Clinical Studies
This book looks at how psychoanalytic thinking can be applied in a variety of settings and can respect the individual experience and circumstances of each patient.
It focuses on the analytic... (more)
Dominique: The Case of an Adolescent
While the child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto stands alongside Jacques Lacan as a leading light of the Other French School, she has been little translated and remains curiously unknown in the... (more)
Meditative Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Pathways to Healing and Transformation
Dr. Jeffrey Rubin's work - the culmination of four decades immersed in psychoanalysis and Eastern mind-body disciplines - introduces a unique method uniting these wisdom traditions. While both aim to... (more)
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Anna Maria Loiacono introduces the reader to the origins of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, its most important concepts, and their clinical value.
Throughout the chapters, Loiacono... (more)
Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work
Psychoanalysis is not just about what happens in the room—it is also about the structure that holds it all together. In Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work, Allannah Furlong rethinks one of the... (more)
The Intimate Edges of Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma: In Tandem
The Intimate Edges of Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma is a personal account of an analysis spanning more than twenty years, written by practicing psychoanalysts.
This book is the first to... (more)
The Lure of the Gaze and the Past: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Edouard Manet's Works
Psychoanalyst Jeanne Wolff Bernstein analyzes the works of the French painter Édouard Manet (1832–1883) from different perspectives. Instead of speculating about Manet’s biography, she links only... (more)
Against Catastrophism: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Hope for the Future
Against Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals.
Bringing together contributors from psychoanalysis,... (more)
Psychodynamic Supervision Theory and Practices: In a New Key
This book sets out a new model for psychodynamic supervision, designed around relational psychoanalytic theory and practice. It emphasizes the development of the self of the therapist and working... (more)
“Dear Institute…”: Candid Commentaries From Candidates in Psychoanalytic Training
This book is a collection of commentaries by 40 psychoanalysts-in training spanning across 29 different countries, shedding light on the state of contemporary psychoanalysis- its training, practice... (more)
Forensic Psychoanalysis: From Sub-Clinical Psychopaths to Serial Killers
Forensic Psychoanalysis examines the traumatic psychological origins of violence and explores the ways in which such disasters can be prevented and treated.
The book encapsulates Professor Brett... (more)
How Does Analysis Work?: Examples of Lacanian Interpretation
How Does Analysis Work? uses short, compelling vignettes from people in Lacanian analysis to explore how analytic interpretation works.
Insights, revelations, connections, meanings and... (more)
Otto Kernberg: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Frank E. Yeomans, Diana Diamond, and Eve Caligor provide a systemic review of Otto Kernberg’s multiple contributions to psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychology, and our understanding of... (more)