Psychoanalysis Books
Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and Attachment
The recent explosion of new research about infants, parental care, and infant-parent relationships has shown conclusively that human relationships are central motivators and organizers in... (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)
A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix: How Siblings Shape our Lives
Siblings play a vital part in our lives, yet their impact is frequently underestimated. A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix offers a fresh group analytic approach to siblings,... (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)
Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field
Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field centers on the mutually reinforcing relationship between erotic and creative energies. Erotic embodiment is given context within a... (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)
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)
Portrait of a Life: Melanie Klein and the Artists
Melanie Klein was a Viennese psychoanalyst who extended the work of Sigmund Freud in significant and innovative ways. She lived and worked in the UK from 1926 until her death in 1959. During her life... (more)
A Psychoanalyst on His Own Couch: A Biography of Vamik Volkan and His Psychoanalytic and Psychopolitical Concepts
Vamik Volkan puts himself on his couch and tells his fascinating life story as an international psychoanalyst who has seen and studied humans in many parts of the world to renowned writer,... (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)
Four Discussions with W. R. Bion
These four discussions held by Wilfred Bion with a small group of psychiatrists and psychotherapists in Los Angeles in 1976 were first published in 1978, edited by Francesca Bion. Despite its brevity... (more)
Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: Paternal Subjectivity interfaces theoretical ideas about fatherhood and their incorporation into the clinical practice of... (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)
Changing Notions of the Feminine: Confronting Psychoanalysts' Prejudices
As culture changes, so do notions of the feminine. Today, women are exploring new gender identities, gender dynamics, and family configurations. They are questioning and redefining what it is to be... (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)
Forced Migration and Social Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sociology and Politics
Forced Migration and Social Trauma addresses the topic of social trauma and migration by bringing together a broad range of interdisciplinary and international contributors, comprising refugee care... (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)
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)
A Meltzer Reader: Selections from the Writings of Donald Meltzer
'Donald Meltzer was a distinguished psychoanalyst and one of Klein's most productive and prominent analysands. He was a very influential teacher internationally and an extraordinary practitioner and... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Apathy, and the Postmodern Patient
The postmodern turn underlies a new development in psychoanalysis, which has theoretical and practical implications. Psychoanalysis, Apathy, and the Postmodern Patient involves a detailed reading of... (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)
Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue
Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is... (more)
Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis
'This volume reflects the passion, creativity and commitment of Antonino Ferro and his colleagues from Pavia as they strive to forge a psychoanalysis built upon a creative, intersubjective dialogue... (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 Fantasy Principle: Psychoanalysis of the Imagination
The Fantasy Principle makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology'. It radically affirms the centrality of imagination and emphasizes the... (more)