Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
The Mother's Hands: Desire Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal
The social changes of the last century have fundamentally transformed motherhood. From a patriarchal society which reduced women almost entirely to their maternal function, new social and sexual... (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 Kleinian Development - Part III: The Clinical Significance of the Work of Bion
The Kleinian Development derives from lectures delivered at the Institute of Psychanalysis, London, and the Tavistock Clinic (1965–78). It is divided into three volumes that examine, in turn, the... (more)
The Kleinian Development - Part II: Richard Week-by-Week: Melanie Klein's 'Narrative of a Child Analysis'
The Kleinian Development derives from lectures delivered at the Institute of Psychanalysis, London, and the Tavistock Clinic (1965–78). It is divided into three volumes that examine, in turn, the... (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)
Sexual States of Mind
A ground-breaking psychoanalytic study on sexuality which maintains its originality today, forty-five years after its first publication. The book is a revision of psychoanalytic theory, starting with... (more)
Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Emotions and the Present Moment
In this book, Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional experience that arises unconsciously in the here-and-now of the clinical... (more)
A Different Path: An Emotional Autobiography
"Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my... (more)
The Essential Writings of Sabina Spielrein: Pioneer of Psychoanalysis
Sabina Spielrein's writings explore the burning topics in the early days of psychoanalysis while providing insight into the culture of the time and her own personal struggles. After a comprehensive... (more)
Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice
Freud's Papers on Technique is usually treated as an assemblage of papers featuring a few dated rules of conduct that are either useful in some way, or merely customary, or bullying, arbitrary and... (more)
Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Politics, History, and Mourning
Today sees the rise of nationalism, the return of totalitarian parties in Europe to electoral success, and the rise of the alt-right and white supremacists in the US. Thus, there is urgency for... (more)
Growing Up?: A Journey with Laughter
This book, by a well established author previously writing in a quite different genre, that of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and counselling, is written for an entirely different readership. Patrick... (more)
Psychoanalytic Aesthetics: An Introduction to the British School
'This is a book to which the attention of students of art theory and criticism, and all those interested in the important application of psychoanalysis to other fields of study, should be drawn.... (more)
Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice
Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science with those working in the different... (more)
The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning
Psychoanalysts increasingly find themselves working with patients and states that are not amenable to verbal and dialogic engagement. Such patients are challenging for a psychoanalytic approach that... (more)
Analytic Engagements with Adolescents: Sex, Gender, and Subversion
In Analytic Engagements with Adolescents, Mary T. Brady takes on the intensity and heat of adolescent psychoanalytic treatment.She is a guide in the distinctive challenges of work with adolescents.... (more)
Beginning Analysis: On the Processes of Initiating Psychoanalysis
How does a psychoanalysis begin? What goes on when analyst and prospective analysand meet for the first time, and what processes are activated to make the project for an analysis possible? This... (more)
Melanie Klein: The Basics
Melanie Klein: The Basics provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and work of Melanie Klein, whose discoveries advanced those of Freud and other analysts, deepening our insight... (more)
The Work of Psychic Figurability: Mental States Without Representation
Based on experience of analytic practice and illustrated by fascinating clinical material, this book addresses what the authors call the work of figurability as a way of outlining the passage from... (more)
Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery: The Genesis of Suffering and the Role of Psychoanalysis
This captivating book explores Antonino Ferro's conception of the way the mind works, his interpretation of the analytic understanding of psychopathology, his reconceptualization of the therapeutic... (more)
In Pursuit of Psychic Change: The Betty Joseph Workshop
The members of the Betty Joseph Workshop have provided major contributions to psychoanalytic thinking since the meeting's inception in 1962. This book is a celebration of Betty Joseph's work, and the... (more)
Aggression and Destructiveness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This book makes a valuable contribution to the attempt to make sense of human aggression, destructiveness and violence perpetrated against the self, others and reality. It will be of great interest... (more)
