Psychoanalysis Books
Marion Milner: The Life
Artist, poet, educationalist and autobiographer, Marion Milner is considered one of the most original of psychoanalytic thinkers whose life (1900-1998) spans a century of radical change. Marion... (more)
From Ultrasound to Army: The Unconscious Trajectories of Masculinity in Israel
Daring to gaze directly into the core of parenting in Israel, this book presents, for the first time, a study that focuses on the conscious and unconscious aspects of the Israeli parenting experience... (more)
The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change
The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change takes a fresh look at the many forms of unconscious communication that take place in the analytic situation. Bringing together two decades of... (more)
Why It Is Good to Be Good: Ethics, Kohut's Self Psychology and Modern Society
John H. Riker argues that modernity, by undermining traditional religious and metaphysical grounds for moral belief, has left itself no way to explain why it is personally good to be a morally good... (more)
Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis: Point/Counterpoint
Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis features pro and con essays on some of the most extreme Freudian claims, including the Freudian unconscious and the Oedipus complex. M. Andrew Holowchak... (more)
Shamans and Analysts: New Insights on the Wounded Healer
Shamans and Analysts provides a model by which to understand the wounded healer phenomenon. It provides evidence as to how this dynamic arises and gives a theoretical model by which to understand it,... (more)
Sexuality and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Criticisms
The relationship between sexuality and psychoanalysis can be described in terms of an old and stormy love affair. The same can be said about the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy. It... (more)
Disciplining Freud on Religion
It is well known that in formulating his general theoretical framework and views on religion Freud drew on multiple disciplines within the natural and social sciences, as well as from the humanities.... (more)
The Relational Origins of Prejudice: A Convergence of Psychoanalytic and Social Cognitive Perspectives
This book shows how people's overidentification with the collective identity of a large group, rather than as an individual, leads to prejudice. It asserts that prejudice can be understood to be an... (more)
The Personality Disorders: A New Look at the Developmental Self and Object Relations Approach
In this extraordinary book, Masterson, pioneer of the developmental self and object relations approach to the personality disorders, has stopped to look both backward and forward - to appraise how... (more)
Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory
This is a powerful theological engagement with psychoanalytic theory in Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, and Zizek, as well as major expressions of contemporary Continental philosophy, including Deleuze,... (more)
Taking Risks from the Unconscious: A Psychoanalysis from Both Sides of the Couch
Taking Risks from the Unconscious tells the story of a remarkably successful psychoanalysis from the point of view of both analyst and patient. The analyst, Dr Marcus, describes the risk he undertook... (more)
Living Systems, Evolving Consciousness, and the Emerging Person: A Selection of Papers from the Life Work of Louis Sander
This collection of previously published papers can be viewed as a story of the gradual emergence of an overarching idea through the course of a lifes work. The idea concerns the way emerging... (more)
Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery
In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of... (more)
Sigmund Freud
Bursting defiantly and gleefully beyond the bounds of orthodox biography, Sigmund Freud is a wildly humorous exercise in bending, stretching and speculating on the activities of the so-called Father... (more)
Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva: Literature, Art, Therapy
In 'Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva', Carol Mastrangelo Bové explores how Kristeva's theoretical and fictional writings contribute to an understanding of contemporary personal and... (more)
The Self in Social Judgement
This volume begins with a historical overview of the self in social judgment, and outlines the major themes discussed. In conclusion, a chapter summary reviews the various approaches and identifies... (more)
Before Words
Psychoanalysis has continuously been applied to the exploration of creativity and artistic genius, but up to now, this has not produced its own systematic body of knowledge. The traditional... (more)
Becoming Alive: Psychoanalysis and Vitality
Becoming Alive draws on the Winnicottian idea of transitional objects, and puts forward the argument that human beings relate to and use objects in order to generate experiences of 'being alive'. (more)
Psychoanalysis: Its Image and Its Public
Moscovici's development of the theory of social representations has long been recognised as a major contribution to social psychology, but discussion of the theory has been limited by the... (more)
The Texture of Treatment: On the Matter of Psychoanalytic Technique
In simple, jargon-free language, Herbert Schlesinger sets out to demystify technique, to show how it is based on basic principles that are applicable both to psychoanalysis and to the psychotherapies... (more)
Lesbian lives: Psychoanalytic narratives old and new
This text focuses on developmental and psychological consequences of identifying as homosexual and having lesbian relationships. It covers: lesbian adolescents; "coming out"; interaction of... (more)
Transference and transcendence:
This is an exploration of the work of Ernest Becker. It particularly looks at those insights that are applicable to the practice of psychotherapy and psychological and pastoral counselling. Becker's... (more)
