Psychoanalysis Books
The Castration Complex: What is So Natural About Sexuality?
This book explores the psychoanalytic concept of castration and its relation to human sexuality. The central argument is that the contemporary perceptions of sexuality as ‘natural’ or ‘given’ or as... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction: How to Flourish in the Workplace
Freud said that love and work are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the good life. While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to... (more)
Developments in Object Relations: Controversies, Conflicts, and Common Ground
Developments in Object Relations provides a highly accessible account of how British Object Relations developed in the second half of the twentieth century, focusing on the generation who took up... (more)
Psychotic Organization of the Personality: Psychoanalytic Keys
The book is a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis as a particular organisation of the personality, based on 'psychotic personality' (Bion) and 'pathological organisations' (Steiner). The... (more)
Reading Klein
Reading Klein provides an introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest psychoanalysts, known in particular for her contribution in developing child analysis and for her vivid... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Shadow of the Parent: Mythology, History, Politics and Art
What do we mean when we say of others, of family members, and particularly of our elders, that they are “a hard act to follow”? Are we speaking of their achievements, their personality, their talents... (more)
The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott
12-Volume Set
Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of Britain's leading psychoanalysts and pediatricians. The author of some of the most enduring theories of the child and of child analysis,... (more)
Freud: The Unconscious and World Affairs
This book sheds a new light on Freud, who from the beginning was aware that the psychoanalytic edifice he was constructing – which revealed in each individual an “ego not master in its own house” –... (more)
Journeys in Psychoanalysis: The Selected Works of Elizabeth Spillius
Elizabeth Spillius is a greatly respected and influential psychoanalyst, particularly within the Kleinian school of thought. This book brings together a collection of Spillius's papers from across... (more)
Obsessions: The Twisted Cruelty
This book explores the interrelatedness between obsessive compulsive disorders, thinking disorders, and depression. The issue is considered both from a psychiatric viewpoint and from a psychodynamic... (more)
Thinking in Cases
Today many philosophers and historians of science would acknowledge that there are different kinds of activity that we call science and different kinds of reasoning that are practised in them. But... (more)
Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting
Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting is a highly topical, continuing conversation on the role of technology in psychoanalysis and its tremendous potential for outreach to patients in the... (more)
When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia
Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic... (more)
Karl Abraham: At the Roots of Analytic Theory
This book describes the life of Karl Abraham, his work in Zurich and Berlin, and his scientific relationship with Freud. Abraham wrote important papers which form the base of clinical psychoanalysis... (more)
Balint Matters: Psychosomatics and the Art of Assessment
This book explores the life and theories of Michael Balint, who kept alive Ferenczi’s analytic traditions in Budapest and brought them to London, where they became a vital part of the Independent... (more)
Echoism: The Silenced Response to Narcissism
This book introduces the importance of Echoism as both a clinical entity and a theoretical concept. In Ovid's version of the myth of Echo and Narcissus, the character Echo receives equal attention to... (more)
Meltzer in Sao Paulo
This book is one of a series that record Donald Meltzer’s clinical seminars and supervisions, which were conducted in various countries on a regular basis over many years. Despite his interest in the... (more)
The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Volume I
This systematic and comprehensive volume, written in a lively and clear style, is devoted essentially to the fundamentals of psychoanalytic technique: transference and resistance. Dr. Greenson... (more)
Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management
Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management is replete with clinical pearls and highly useful tips for the management of patients driven by feelings of guilt and remorse. Eight distinguished... (more)
The Work of Psychoanalysis: Sexuality, Time and the Psychoanalytic Mind
Psychoanalysts working in clinical situations are constantly confronted with the struggle between conservative forces and those which enable something new to develop. Continuity and change, stasis... (more)
Reclaiming Unlived Life: Experiences in Psychoanalysis
In Reclaiming Unlived Life, influential psychoanalyst Thomas Ogden uses rich clinical examples to illustrate how different types of thinking may promote or impede analytic work. With a unique style... (more)
Dialogues with Children and Adolescents: A Psychoanalytic Guide
Psychoanalytic work with children is popular, but the sophisticated language used in psychoanalytic discourse can be at odds with how children communicate, and how best to communicate with them.... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Craft: How to Develop as a Psychoanalytic Practitioner
Why is developing as a psychoanalytic practitioner so often laden with anxiety? A simple answer is that psychoanalytic work is intrinsically complex and difficult. But Laurence Spurling argues... (more)
The Collected Works of Melanie Klein
A four-volume set including Melanie Klein's best-known works.
This is a facsimile edition of the 1975 Hogarth Press four-volume set.
Volume I - “Love, Guilt and Reparation” and Other Works... (more)
The Fictions of Dreams: Dreams, Literature, and Writing
The Fictions of Dreams explores the close connection between the narrative nature of dreams and the narrative devices employed in literature and creative writing. The book is unique in its... (more)
Oedipus and the Oedipus Complex: A Revision
In contemporary psychoanalytic thought, Freud’s concept of the Oedipus complex is inclined to overshadow the interpretation of the myths surrounding Oedipus. The authors counter this situation by... (more)
The Freud Folder
THE FREUD FOLDER
Composed of five charts, which provide a permanent source of information and complementary material to the study of Freud’s life, work, and the psychoanalytical movement. The Freud... (more)
Ethics of Evil: Psychoanalytic Investigations
In today’s world where every form of transgression enjoys a psychological motive and rational justification, psychoanalysis stands alone in its ability to uncover the hidden motives that inform... (more)
Confessions from the Couch: Psychoanalytical Notions Illustrated with Extracts from Sessions
The unconscious? The Oedipus complex? The castration complex? Neurosis? The objet a? What are they? And what does one say to an analyst? What happens during an analysis?
For those asking... (more)
Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex
Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex examines the progressive construction of the notion of paternal function and its central relevance in psychoanalysis.The distinction... (more)