Psychoanalysis Books
Otto Kernberg: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Frank E. Yeomans, Diana Diamond, and Eve Caligor provide a systemic review of Otto Kernberg’s multiple contributions to psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychology, and our understanding of... (more)
Contemporary Perspectives on Freud's Seduction Theory and Psychoanalysis: Revisiting Masson’s ‘The Assault on Truth’
This edited collection brings together the perspectives of a broad spectrum of experts who reflect on Freud’s Seduction Theory, psychoanalysis, and the reality of child abuse through the work of... (more)
Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch
Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sexuality. How does one address this organically in... (more)
The Unconscious as Space: From Freud to Lacan, and Beyond
The Unconscious as Space explores the experience of being and the practice of psychoanalysis by thinking of the unconscious in mathematical terms.
Anca Carrington introduces mathematical models... (more)
On Freud's Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through
In On Freud’s “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” international contributors from a range of psychoanalytic backgrounds reflect on this key 1914 paper.
Each chapter considers an aspect... (more)
A Life of One's Own
How often do we really ask ourselves, “What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?” In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner, a renowned British psychoanalyst, artist and autobiographer... (more)
The Darker Side of Leadership: Pythons Devouring Crocodiles
Manfred Kets de Vries is one of the most authoritative voices on organizational dynamics, leadership, executive coaching, and psychotherapy today. In all his roles, he has noticed that questions are... (more)
Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity: From Toxic to Seminal
Drawing on a broad range of psychoanalytic, cultural and social influences, the author examines the concept of toxic masculinity for how it brings into focus a widespread anxiety about toxicity... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional... (more)
Binocular Vision: An Inquiry into Psychoanalytic Techniques and Field Theory
Binocular Vision in Psychoanalysis explains field theory from a Bionian perspective, while exploring the relationship between art and psychoanalysis.
Elena Molinari starts from Bion’s double... (more)
Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text
Twenty-nine years since the first edition was released, Frank Summers has renewed his lucid and thorough clarification of the various object relations theories to demonstrate their evolution and... (more)
The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later
The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later revisits Freud’s classic 1923 essay, which developed key psychoanalytic concepts and presented a radical revision of his earlier theory.
International... (more)
Melanie Klein's Narrative of an Adult Analysis
Melanie Klein’s Narrative of an Adult Analysis offers the first detailed account of Melanie Klein’s work with an adult patient, Mr B, which spanned the years 1934 to 1949.
This volume includes... (more)
Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis: Creativity and Authenticity at Work
Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis celebrates the lives and work of female psychoanalysts whose significant contributions to the Independent Tradition have hitherto been overshadowed by... (more)
Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother
In Fratriarchy, Juliet Mitchell expands her ground-breaking theories on the sibling trauma and the Law of the Mother. Writing as a psychoanalytic practitioner, she shows what happens from the ground... (more)
W. R. Bion as Clinician: Steering Between Concept and Practice
Underpinned by rigorous close readings of his oeuvre, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the development, practice and evolution of Wilfred Bion’s clinical psychoanalytic work.
Starting... (more)
The Covid Trail: Psychodynamic Explorations
The idea of The Covid Trail developed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using the language of psychoanalysis and system psychodynamic thinking, it seeks to find a way to think about and... (more)
W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction
Annie Reiner’s introduction to Wilfred Bion’s theories of mind presents Bion’s intricate ideas in an accessible, original way without compromising their complexity.
Reiner uses comparisons to... (more)
Truth: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
This edited collection gathers together erudite and considered contributions from Salman Akhtar, Cobi Avshalom, Brett Clarke, Mali Mann, Gila Ofer, Thomas Ogden, Louis Rothschild, Batya Shoshani,... (more)
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter is a pioneering reflection on the psychology of racism and its impact on us all. With the intimacy of personal experience and depth of... (more)
Experiencing Endings and Beginnings: From Birth to Old Age: Second Edition
Experiencing Endings and Beginnings highlights the emotional turmoil which, to a greater or lesser extent, accompanies the changes we experience throughout life. It considers the nature of the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: A Contemporary Introduction
Within this important and insightful book, Sally Swartz introduces readers to early entanglements of psychoanalytic theory with colonialism and how it has led to significant and long-lasting... (more)
Freud/Lynch: Behind the Curtain
The films of David Lynch are sometimes said to be unintelligible. They confront us with strange dreamscapes populated with bizarre characters, obscure symbols and an infuriating lack of narrative... (more)
The Evil Imagination: Understanding and Resisting Destructive Forces
Roger Kennedy has written a masterful investigation into the concept of evil. He begins with a general view of the subject before moving into more detailed analysis. First is a review of the science... (more)
Lost Childhood and the Language of Exile
A seminal work reissued with a new introduction from Judit Szekacs-Weisz and welcoming words from Ivan Ward and Carol Siegel. The book features stories of great diversity from psychoanalysts,... (more)
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)
Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment
The kinds of hatreds that analysts have assumed make up part of the unspoken backdrop of Western civilization have now erupted into our daily foreground. This book, consisting of essays from eleven... (more)
Donald Meltzer: A Contemporary Introduction
In this intelligent and insightful work, Meg Harris Williams presents a clear and readable introduction to the works of influential psychoanalyst Donald Meltzer. The book covers Meltzer's ideas on... (more)
The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic Clinical Essays on Psychic Survival-of-the-Object
In this book, Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object and examines how psychic survival-of-the-object places the early m/Other at the... (more)
Plato’s Ghost: Minus Links and Liminality in Psychoanalytic Practice
Psychoanalytic encounters are filled with the unknowability of two unconscious minds meeting. Here one may forge a link that enables the process of meaning-making, or else it can become the space for... (more)