Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality: Collected Papers
The classic work on object relations, which bases its understanding of human development upon the infant's innate need for relationships.
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)
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)
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)
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)
Impasse and Interpretation: Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline and Neurotic Patients
A powerful argument for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms, and their alleviation through psychoanalytic means.
Theatres of the Mind: Illusion and Truth on the Psychoanalytic Stage
'Theatres of the Mind is one of the finest contributions of contemporary French psychanalysis', writes Otto Kernberg in his foreword to this book. Using the idiom of drama, Joyce McDougall... (more)
Human Nature
This is Donald Winnicott's only attempt to write an overview of his ideas. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main... (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)
Psychotic States: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Psychotic States brings together a number of Herbert Rosenfeld's papers written between 1946 and 1964 dealing with the psychopathology and treatment of various psychotic and borderline conditions... (more)
Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1972–1975
A highly controversial and divisive character, Masud Khan’s story is both fascinating and complex. The publication of his private Work Books, which record personal encounters and opinions, present... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions: Legacy, Transformation and Becoming
Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions provides a thorough appraisal of the current state of psychoanalytic groups and how they might move forward under fraught conditions, representing the outcome... (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)
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)
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a... (more)