Psychoanalysis Books
Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents
Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Adolescents and Children is a groundbreaking collection of chapters by an international group of analytic authors. The book addresses the... (more)
Birth to Psychic Life
Based on rich clinical experience and on theory from numerous psychoanalytical works, this book explores and analyses the emergence and development of the psychic life.
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Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link
This clinically focused book explores W. R. Bion’s thinking on primitive and unrepresented mental states and shows how therapists can work effectively with traumatized patients who are difficult to... (more)
When the Body Speaks: A British-Italian Dialogue
This book is based on the work done by a group of British and Italian psychoanalysts who have been meeting twice yearly since 2003 to study clinically the relationship between the mind and the body... (more)
Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood
Offering a uniquely psychoanalytic developmental perspective on male gender identity and the sense of maleness, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of masculinity in childhood... (more)
The Cure for Psychoanalysis
In his first essay, ‘The Magic of Winnicott: Playing and reality, and reality’, Adam Phillips makes clear the subtlety and wisdom of Winnicott’s concept of play. Its inspiration came from a wonderful... (more)
Identification in Psychoanalysis: A Comprehensive Introduction
This fascinating book offers an in-depth exploration of the gradual development of the concept of identification as it has evolved in the Freudian tradition of psychoanalysis.
Featuring a... (more)
Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer: Volume 3: The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst
This new selection from the papers of Donald Meltzer spans his working life and serves as an introduction to all his key concepts, such as: aesthetic conflict, the claustrum, adhesive identification,... (more)
A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis
The science of Psychoanalysis is now more than a century old. During this period, it has been established as the instrument offering the most profound understanding of the human mind, and as the most... (more)
Suffering and Sacrifice in the Clinical Encounter
The authors identify the ways in which some patients seek to create what Freud termed a “private religion” and unconsciously substitute sacrificial enactments of scapegoat surrogates to protect them... (more)
The Erotic Screen: Desire, Addiction and Perversity in Cinema
The Erotic Screen takes as its starting point that Hollywood movies were steeped in eroticism from the beginning but censorship forced filmmakers to devise hidden sexual subtexts to preserve a film’s... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health offers a new understanding of identity and mental health, shining the light of twenty-first century... (more)
A Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Exploration of a Continent: Europe on the Couch
This important book gathers a set of influential international contributors with psychoanalytic and group analytic knowledge to provide a wide-ranging critical analysis of the present state of... (more)
Psychoanalysis in China
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)
Sexuality and Gender Now: Moving Beyond Heteronormativity
Sexuality and Gender Now uses a psychoanalytic approach to arrive at a more informed view of the experience and relationships of those whose sexuality and gender may not align with the heterosexual... (more)
Credo?: Religion and Psychoanalysis
Personal reflections on faith and psychoanalysis from a leading British psychoanalyst.
What is it that lies beyond our knowing, beyond our imagination and beyond our understanding: beyond the... (more)
Dream Psychology
'The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.'
In this fascinating work by one of the pioneers of psychology and psychoanalysis, Freud unlocks the secrets of the... (more)
The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, Volume Two: Hasidism
The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, Volume Two: Hasidism is the second volume, fully annotated, of a major, previously unpublished, two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905-1960). It was written between... (more)
Rediscovering Pierre Janet: Trauma, Dissociation, and a New Context for Psychoanalysis
Rediscovering Pierre Janet explores the legacy left by the pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist (1859-1947), from the relationship of between Janet and Freud, to the... (more)
Experiencing the Body: A Psychoanalytic Dialogue on Psychosomatics
Experiencing the Body: A Psychoanalytic Dialogue on Psychosomatics offers a range of perspectives on somatic illness, highlighting key points of convergence and difference between a range of... (more)
The Destroyed World and the Guilty Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Culture and Politics
David Levine and Mathew Bowker explore cultural and political trends organized around the conviction that the world we live in is a dangerous place to be, that it is dominated by hate and... (more)
The Unconscious in Social and Political Life
Traumatic events happen in every age, yet there is a particularly cataclysmic feeling to our own epoch that is so attractive to some and so terrifying to others. The terrible events of September 11th... (more)
Beyond the Primal Addiction: Food, Sex, Gambling, Internet Shopping and Work
Written by experienced practitioners in the fields of addiction and psychoanalysis, and illustrated by a range of moving vignettes, this groundbreaking book examines the psychological foundations of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being
Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being combines psychoanalytic, existential and dramaturgical perspectives on the study of anxiety.
The book explores the implications for... (more)
Bion in New York and Sao Paulo: And Three Tavistock Seminars
A new 2019 edition, edited and introduced by Meg Harris Williams.
These two talks given in 1977 and 1978 in New York and Sao Paulo respectively are an edited version of discussions and... (more)
The Affect Theory of Silvan Tomkins for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Recasting the Essentials
The Affect Theory of Silvan Tomkins for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy explores central issues in current clinical work, using the theories put forward by Silvan Tomkins and presenting them in... (more)
The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality
The Life and Work of Joan Riviere traces her journey from dressmaker's apprentice, and member of the Society for Psychical Research, to Sigmund Freud's patient and his favourite translator. Marion... (more)
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided... (more)
Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process
What role does ethics play in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy? For most of its history, psychoanalysis has viewed ethics as a side issue in clinical work-occasionally important, but... (more)
The Growth of Mind
The Growth of Mind is the product of a series of ten lectures by Neville Symington. It offers an understanding of the mind and its capacity to discover truth, establishing this as the foundation... (more)