Psychoanalysis Books
Symbiosis and Ambiguity: A Psychoanalytic Study
Symbiosis and Ambiguity is the first English edition of the classic study of early object relations by influential Argentinian psychoanalyst Jose Bleger (1922-1972). It is rooted in Kleinian thinking... (more)
Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious
At a time when the place and significance of myth in society has come under renewed scrutiny, Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious contributes to shaping the new interdisciplinary field of myth... (more)
Winnicott and Religion
This is the first in-depth exploration of the role of religion in the life and work of D. W. Winnicott. It uses previously unpublished materials from the Winnicott archives in London and New York to... (more)
What is Madness?
What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad? In this landmark work Darian Leader undermines... (more)
Winnicott's Children: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Winnicott's Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of D.W. Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the settings where we work, and how it has... (more)
Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran
Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love,... (more)
The Petrified Ego: A New Theory of Conscience
Due to the inherent contradiction in Freud’s concept of the Superego, there is a gap in our psychoanalytic understanding of how conscience evolves. This distinction is essential for the successful... (more)
Sandor Ferenczi - Ernest Jones: Letters 1911-1933
The Ferenczi-Jones correspondence presented here is an important document of the early history of psychoanalysis. It spans more than two decades and addresses many of the relevant issues of the... (more)
Psychoanalysis Online: Mental Health, Teletherapy, and Training
Psychoanalysis Online: Mental Health, Teletherapy and Training, edited by Jill Savege Scharff, MD, is an international collaboration by psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who consider the impact of... (more)
Psychoanalytic Listening: Methods, Limits, and Innovations
'Joseph Breuer’s celebrated patient, Anna O., designated psychoanalysis to be a "talking cure". She was correct insofar as psychoanalysis does place verbal exchange at the center stage. However, the... (more)
The Essential Sudhir Kakar
This volume includes some of the path-breaking essays by well-known psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar on themes ranging from Hindu childhood, modern mysticism, and India's healing traditions to male-female... (more)
A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalytic theory remains hugely influential to our understanding of the mind and human behaviour. It provides a rich source of ideas for therapeutic practice while offering dramatic insights for... (more)
Young Children and their Parents: Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Infant Observation
The book describes, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the development of the parent-infant relationship in the first years of life. It follows the development of the child's relationship to his or... (more)
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on clinical work with... (more)
If You Can't Trust Your Mother, Who Can You Trust?: Soul Murder, Psychoanalysis, and Creativity
The main theme of this book concerns the continuing psychic centrality of parents for their children. Several chapters examine an author and his works, outlining that author’s relationships with... (more)
The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud’s relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two... (more)
Freud's "On Narcissism: An Introduction"
On Narcissism: An Introduction is a densely packed essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated today – from the role of narcissism in normal and pathological development and the... (more)
Enabling and Inspiring: A Tribute to Martha Harris
Martha Harris (1919-1987) was one of the most influential and also one of the most loved psychoanalysts of the generation that trained with Melanie Klein. She also worked with Wilfred Bion, and wrote... (more)
Enduring Trauma Through the Life Cycle
This is a multi-authored book on the complex subject of psychic trauma as encountered at different stages of the life-cycle, and describes some of the clinical challenges, technical issues and... (more)
Updating Midlife: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (+ DVD)
"Midlife" is a concept used everywhere and from many different vertexes, though mostly imprecisely, even within the psychoanalytic paradigm. This book tries to settle its proper meaning through the... (more)
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition
Ronald Fairbairn developed a thoroughgoing object relations theory that became a foundation for modern clinical thought. This volume is homage to the enduring power of his thinking, and of his... (more)
Bothered By Alligators
Milner's final text, Bothered by Alligators, came about when, in her nineties, she unexpectedly came across a diary she had kept during the early years of her son's life, recording his conversations... (more)
Manual of Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Extended Range
This manual presents a carefully researched, detailed psychodynamic treatment program for the alleviation of a transdiagnostic range of primary Axis I anxiety disorders, including panic disorder,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Education: Minding a Gap
This book provides a unique and highly topical application of psychoanalytic theory to the broad context of education, including schools, universities, and adult learning. Education is understood as... (more)
The Damaged Core: Origins, Dynamics, Manifestations, and Treatment
This comprehensive and tightly argued book deals with the process through which a coherent self evolves, the various ways such development fails to occur, and the therapeutic measures to put things... (more)
The Christopher Bollas Reader
This reader brings together a selection of seminal papers by Christopher Bollas. Essays such as "The fascist state of mind", "The structure of evil," and "The functions of history" have established... (more)
With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories
This is a new kind of anthology. More conversation than collection, it locates the psychic and the social in clinical moments illuminating the analyst's struggle to grasp a patient's internal life as... (more)
Independent Psychoanalysis Today
Independent Psychoanalysis Today is a book that shows how contemporary Independent psychoanalysts think and work. There are three themes to the book: Independent thinking including the theory of... (more)
The New Dictionary of Kleinian Thought
The New Dictionary of Kleinian Thought provides a comprehensive and wholly accessible exposition of Kleinian ideas. Offering a thorough update of R.D. Hinshelwood's highly acclaimed original, this... (more)
Between Winnicott and Lacan: A Clinical Engagement
D.W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, two of the most innovative and important psychoanalytic theorists since Freud, are also seemingly the most incompatible. And yet, in different ways, both men... (more)