Psychoanalysis Books
A Psychoanalytic Exploration On Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel?
In dialogue with the most famous myth for the origin of different languages - The Tower of Babel - A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel? provides a series of timely... (more)
Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, Winnicott, and the Body of the Void
In Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis, Touria Mignotte explores an innovative conception of cruelty. Integrating the life sciences and quantum physics, this approach shows that... (more)
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a... (more)
Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder: Literary and Psychoanalytic Reflections
Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder discusses the conditions of Phantom Limb Syndrome and Body Integrity Identity Disorder together for the first time, exploring examples from... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis at the Heart of Teaching and Learning: How and Why it Matters
This book introduces the insights of contemporary relational psychoanalysis to educational thought and uses them as the foundation for a comprehensive model for understanding and informing teaching... (more)
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness and how they have been shaped by historical trends and dominant... (more)
The Unconscious: A Bridge Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Neuroscience
The Unconscious explores the critical interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Characterised by Freud as `the science of the unconscious mind',... (more)
The Analyst's Analyst Within:
This study examines how psychoanalysts' experiences with their own analysts affect their lives, their loves and their evolving professional identities. (more)
September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds
Our view of massive trauma has been shaped by the events of September 11, 2001. This volume focuses on the World Trade Center attack and its psychological consequences in order to deepen... (more)
On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World
The whole book circles around issues of intimacy and privacy, versus the need to speak out, to define and organise the world through writing, analysis and politics - exploring the uncomfortable... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get On with Life
People with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorders have a serious mental illness that primarily affects their intimate, personal, and family relationships. Often they appear to be normally... (more)
How to Talk to a Borderline
In How to Talk to a Borderline, Joan Lachkar introduces Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and outlines the challenges and difficulties it presents to clinicians. She expands current understanding... (more)
Plato's Silence: A Study in the Imagination
'This is an extraordinary book. The author is unique in the world of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: he strides the landscape of psychoanalytic theory and of philosophy with equal felicity as though... (more)
A Psicologia da Pessoa
Este novo título do renomado autor Neville Symington irá inspirar tanto psicanalistas como os leitores em geral.
"Neste livro procuro esboçar uma ‘Psicologia da Pessoa’. A definição de ‘pessoa’... (more)
Inquietações <-> Serenidade: Efeitos das Contribuições de Bion
Uma súmula e apreciação crítica de um evento abrigando 490 psicanalistas de vários países, realizado no Colégio Santa Cruz, na cidade de São Paulo, sob o patrocínio da Sociedade Brasileira de... (more)