Psychoanalysis Books
Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Experience
Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Experience represents a decade of work from one of today's leading psychoanalysts. Michael Parsons brings to life clinical psychoanalysis and its theoretical... (more)
The Body Speaks: Body Image Delusions and Hypochondria
This book explores David Rosenfeld's pioneering work with severely disturbed patients, to show what it means to work and think as a psychoanalyst about transference and the internal world of a... (more)
Social Defences Against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm
This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety first set out by Elliott Jaques and Isabel Menzies Lyth in papers which they published in 1955 and 1960, and which have... (more)
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated,... (more)
Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Increased worldwide mobility and easy access to technology means that the use of technological mediation for treatment is being adopted rapidly and uncritically by psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic... (more)
The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis, Consciousness and the Human Soul
The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives. Roger Kennedy puts forward the central... (more)
The Courage of Simplicity: Essential Ideas in the Work of W.R. Bion
Relying on and developing the ideas of W.R. Bion, this book observes psychoanalytic thinking through three prisms: person, group and society. The book is divided into four sections.
The first... (more)
Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst's Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional
Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst's Life Experience explores how leaders in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy address the phenomena of the psychoanalyst's personal life and... (more)
Art and Analysis: An Adrian Stokes Reader
This edition is an introductory selection from the writings of Adrian Stokes (1902-1972), the Kleinian aesthete who created a unique vision of the relation between psychoanalysis, art, and aesthetic... (more)
The Skin-Ego
In this classic work, Didier Anzieu presents and develops his theory of the importance of ‘the Skin-ego’. Just as the skin is wrapped around the body, so Anzieu sees the ‘Skin-ego’ as a psychical... (more)
Good Stuff: Generosity, Resilience, Humility, Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice
Good Stuff is divided into two main parts; Part I addresses Positive Attributes and Part II, Positive Actions. The former contains chapters on Courage, Resilience, and Gratitude. The latter contains... (more)
Further Learning from the Patient: The Analytic Space and Process: Second Edition
In Further Learning from the Patient, Patrick Casement stresses the value of 'internal supervision' which monitors clinical work from the patient's point of view as well as the therapist's. This... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life: Ordinary Genius
Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life: Ordinary Genius is an attempt to create a psychoanalytic space for the quest and questions of our everyday creativity. Official creativity is normally... (more)
Boundaries and Bridges: Perspectives on Time and Space in Psychoanalysis
Time and space provide the coordinates for the exploration of psychological phenomena and, more specifically, of what takes place in the psychoanalyst’s consulting room: in the minds of the two... (more)
The Mutation of European Consciousness and Spirituality: From the Mythical to the Modern
From the early 1970s, Willy Obrist worked on the neglected theory of C.G. Jung’s depth psychology, incorporating it into modern knowledge about living organisms, and reflecting on the consequences of... (more)
Who's Behind the Couch?: The Heart and Mind of the Psychoanalyst
What is it like to be a working psychoanalyst? And what is it like to be held in the mind of one? These were the questions that led Winer and Malawista to interview seventeen notable analysts from... (more)
Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud 1904 - 1938
This book is the first publication of the complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud with his daughter Anna. The correspondence ranges over personal and family matters - social events, family holidays,... (more)
Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars
This book originates from a series of clinical supervisions that were held at the Sao Paulo Institute of Psychoanalysis by Antonino Ferro. Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars... (more)
Psychoanalysis in the Technoculture Era
By now the internet and other forms of virtual communication have been in place for at least twenty years. However, surprisingly little has been written about the use of new technologies in the... (more)
The Empty Couch: The Taboo of Aging and Retirement in Psychoanalysis
The Empty Couch is an introduction to the challenges and obstacles inherent in ageing as a psychoanalyst. It addresses the previously neglected issue of ill health, as well as the significance of... (more)
On Freud's "A Child is Being Beaten"
Presents a classic essay by Sigmund Freud, followed by discussions that set Freud's work in context and demonstrate its contemporary relevance. The contributors to this volume represent diverse... (more)
The W.R. Bion Tradition
This book engages a truly international group of distinguished Bion scholars, offering a wide variety of contemporary clinical and theoretical explorations and extensions of the seminal work of... (more)
Shame and Humiliation: A Dialogue between Psychoanalytic and Systemic Approaches
Shame and Humiliation aims at exploring a sub-set of universal emotions that are usually labelled as "negative" because of the sense of unease that they generate when we experience them and the... (more)
On Freud's "The Unconscious"
If there ever was one word that could represent the essence of Freud’s work, that word would be ‘unconscious’. Indeed, Freud himself regarded his 1915 paper ‘The Unconscious’ as central to clarifying... (more)
Betrayal: Developmental, Literary, and Clinical Realms
Betrayal underlies all psychic trauma, whether sexual abuse or profound neglect, violence or treachery, extramarital affair or embezzlement. When we betray others, we violate their confidence in us.... (more)
Psychoanalytic Filiations: Mapping the Psychoanalytic Movement
This book presents a collection of fifteen essays on the early history of psychoanalysis, focusing on the network of psychoanalytic “filiations” ("who analysed whom") and the context of discovery of... (more)
Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown
In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests... (more)
The Winnicott Tradition: Lines of Development—Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades
This volume in a book series on psychoanalytic leaders, provides a geographically global sampler of writing stemming from Winnicott’s complex and paradoxical thinking.
In the first section, on... (more)
The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique
What happens when the outside world enters the psychoanalytic space? In The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique, Aisha Abbasi draws on clinical material to describe... (more)