Psychoanalysis Books
First Contributions to Psycho-analysis
This book is a collection of Ferenczi's early papers which secured him, in an amazingly short time, his prominent position among Freud's followers. Included here are several of the papers that now... (more)
Psychic Experience and Problems of Technique
By examining changes in the patient's experience of 'inner space', this book records the development of the author's understanding of the patient's experience and its vicissitudes. The book goes on... (more)
Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organisations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients
A innovative attempt to create a third position in Kleinian psychoanalysis, in order to explain pathological organisations of the personality.
Transference and Countertransference
When first published, Heinrich Racker's papers were quickly appreciated as a benchmark in the ongoing, although at the time underdeveloped, understanding of the vital importance of... (more)
Subjects of Analysis
In this brilliant contribution to psychoanlaytic theory and practice, the author has once again challenged psychoanalytic clinicians to expand the conceptual envelope that confines and constricts... (more)
The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion
Psychoanalysis, as seen through Bion's eyes, is a radical departure. The Symingtons explain Bion's concepts in relation to clinical practice. Each chapter looks in depth at a particular theme. (more)
D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait
A distillation of painstaking research into the life of Donald Winnicott, tracing his life from his childhood in Plymouth, through his career in paediatrics, to his election as President of the... (more)
Containing Anxiety in Institutions: Selected Essays Volume 1
This is a controversial collection, which makes available to a wider public an important part of the research tradition of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. The author extends her analytic... (more)
Unconscious Logic: An Introduction to Matte-Blanco's Bi-Logic and its Uses
An introduction to Matte-Blanco's key concepts, aimed at anyone interested in the advancement of psychoanalytic thinking. The author sets out the central ideas in a comprehensive fashion and then,... (more)
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality
In 1914, Freud wrote in On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement: "Hungary, so near geographically to Austria, and so far from it scientifically, has produced only one collaborator, Sandor... (more)
Cracking Up: Unconscious Work in Self Experience
In Being a Character , Christopher Bollas argued that Freud's vision of the dream process is a model for all unconscious mental experience. In Cracking Up he extends his exploration of the inner... (more)
Essential Papers on Masochism
A comprehensive collection of papers on this key psychoanalytic topic, from the early days of psychoanalysis to the latest theories. 533 pages. (more)
A Psychoanalytic Theory of Infantile Experience: Conceptual and Clinical Reflections
Gaddini, an eminent training analyst, was interested in the relationship between mental development and early body development. In this edited selection of his papers, clinical examples support his... (more)
Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein
A most lucid and comprehensive introduction to Kleinian theories from one of the leading contemporary Kleinian analysts, including new chapters on her early work and on technique. This is a reprint... (more)
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)
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)
Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law: Confronting Chaos
Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law examines the challenges of maintaining a psychoanalytic stance when working in chaotic times, with international contributors reflecting not only on their work with... (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)
Klein, Bion, and Winnicott: Theoretical and Clinical Convergences and Divergences
This book fills a gap in psychoanalytic literature by offering a rigorous analysis of the intersections and divergences between the three foundational figures in psychoanalysis: Melanie Klein,... (more)
Jung and Spirituality
An exploration of spirituality in the modern world using Carl Jung’s insights.
Jung believed that a spiritual life lies buried in everyone’s unconscious and could be brought before... (more)
Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence: Concepts and Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy
Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence presents a comprehensive integrative theory and style of therapeutic involvement that reflects a relational and non-pathological perspective.
Containing... (more)
Understanding Your Child Beyond Words: Psychoanalytic Techniques for Parents
Understanding Your Child Beyond Words: Psychoanalytic Techniques for Parents will help you unlock a deeper knowledge of your child's feelings, inviting you to explore the deepest questions about... (more)
Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic Breathing: Working Psychoanalytically with Early Relational Trauma
This book focuses on the recognition and psychoanalytic treatment of a debilitating form of early relational trauma poignantly described by Steven Stern as airless world syndrome.
A patient can... (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)
Psychoanalysis in Play: Expanding Psychoanalytic Concepts from a Play Perspective
In this book, Steven H. Cooper expands on his thinking of psychoanalysis as a form of play and the implications of this for theory and clinical practice.
The most important activities of the... (more)
Inside Psychosis: A Clinical and Therapeutic Exploration of Working on Male and Female Acute Psychiatric Wards
This book offers an introductory overview of treatment of psychosis in in-patient acute ward settings, looking at both male and female wards.
Taking a broadly psychoanalytic perspective, the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India
In this landmark collaboration, Osamu Kitayama and Jhuma Basak chronical their long-standing collaboration and cultural exchange to survey the importance of familial relationships in Japan and India,... (more)