Psychoanalysis Books
Primitive Agony and Symbolization
The fundamental outlook of this book is clinical. It attempts to establish a unitary model of the processes at work in different forms of narcissistic pathology, and to offer a model that is both an... (more)
The Language of Bion: A Dictionary of Concepts
Considering that introductory books cannot replace an author's original words, and that Bion's concepts are often found to be difficult to grasp, Dr Paulo Sandler has compiled an unusual style of... (more)
Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: An Analytic Approach to Intellectual Disability: Second Updated Edition
This book was an instant classic when it first appeared in 1992 and has continued to be a key text ever since. Easy to read yet profound in its meaning, it offers hope to professionals, family... (more)
Matters of Life and Death: Psychoanalytic Reflections
The author's focus in this book is upon the intrapsychic vicissitudes of what it means to be truly alive and how death accompanies us at each step of our life's journey. He attempts to show that,... (more)
Betweenity: A Discussion of the Concept of Borderline
From its inception psychoanalysis has sought to effect a cure through the therapeutic relationship between analyst and analysand. Betweenity looks at what happens when the established framework of... (more)
The Wound of Mortality: Fear, Denial, and Acceptance of Death
Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in... (more)
Intimacies
Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here engage in a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as... (more)
Under the Skin: A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification
Considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and... (more)
Her Hour Come Round at Last: A Garland for Nina Coltart
This title is a celebration of the life of Nina Coltart, who had a career in medicine and psychoanalysis and was author of bestselling titles in psychotherapy The Baby and the Bathwater and How to... (more)
Working with Violence: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach
It has become an urgent priority to tackle the problem of violence. But in an age preoccupied with public protection and risk, violent behaviour is more likely to provoke a punitive response than any... (more)
Bion's Dream: A Reading of the Autobiographies
'This book offers a definitive reading of Bion's remarkable autobiographical writings from a perspective embedded in the poetry of the ages, that of the Romantics in particular. It is at once learned... (more)
A New Freudian Synthesis: Clinical Process in the Next Generation
This work presents a vision of contemporary Freudian psychoanalysis. The contributors show how modern Freudian analysts have translated and retranslated the contributions of analysts on whose... (more)
Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment
The chapters in this fascinating book are undergirded by the concept that the meanings which arise from unformulated experience are catalyzed by the states of relatedness in which the meanings... (more)
Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies
Whether they are supervisees entering analytic training or veteran analysts with twenty years of private practice, many capable psychoanalysts express frustration or doubt when trying to locate their... (more)
Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory
In recent years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. Most of the scholarly focus in this area has been in the areas of... (more)
Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process: Selected Papers
In this profound and subtle study, a practising psychoanalyst explores the dynamics of the interaction between the patient and the analyst. Michael Feldman draws the reader into experiencing how the... (more)
Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion
Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destruction of the self or others has been described as... (more)
But at the Same Time and on Another Level: Volume 1: Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique in the Kleinian/Bionian Mode
'This work is organized as a primer and handbook, a "beginning", to elucidate general principles on how the psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist may optimally provide and... (more)
Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis
George Makari answers two fundamental questions: How did Freudian theory come together as a body of ideas, and how did these ideas attract followers who spread this model of the mind throughout the... (more)
The Work of Confluence: Listening and Interpreting in the Psychoanalytic Field
This book aims to expand the Barangers' oeuvre to the English language and, consequently, to a broader spectrum of readers. These contributions represent a pioneering work of great interest to the... (more)
On Freud's "Constructions in Analysis"
In Constructions in Analysis Freud introduces the notion of constructions, different from interpretation, and considers it necessary - under certain conditions - to reconstruct a part of the... (more)
On Freud's "Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence"
This book includes the development of the concept of "splitting" from both metapsychological and clinical perspectives, emphasizing the great importance of this topic for contemporary psychoanalysis.... (more)
Sigmund Freud and the History of Anna O: Reopening a Closed Case
In his published writings Sigmund Freud maintained that it was the success of Josef Breuer's treatment of the patient known as Anna O. that prepared the ground for the development of psychoanalysis.... (more)
The Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma
Brings together for the first time contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanist therapy traditions, looking at how trauma and enactments affect psychotherapeutic practice. Enactments... (more)
The Infinite Question
Christopher Bollas uses detailed studies of real clinical practice to illuminate a theory of psychoanalysis which privileges the human impulse to question. From earliest childhood to the end of our... (more)
Technique in Child and Adolescent Analysis
These are the edited papers from a conference held in 2008 on the topic of problems with child and adolescent analysis. The contributors come from widely differing theoretical backgrounds and use a... (more)
The Quest for Conscience and the Birth of the Mind
This book offers a new perspective on conscience as an as yet unrealized human potential, but a potential toward which human beings are naturally driven. A distinction is made between a "mature" or... (more)
Enduring Loss: Mourning, Depression and Narcissism Throughout the Life Cycle
This book comprises a selection of papers initially presented as a series of lectures organised by the Psychoanalytic Forum of the British Psychoanalytical Society. The aims of these lectures was to... (more)
Destructiveness, Intersubjectivity and Trauma: The Identity Crisis of Modern Psychoanalysis
'At last we have a book that provides a comprehensive overview and assessment of the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis, showing its logical and clinical limitations and exploring its social and... (more)
Understanding Dreams in Clinical Practice
This book presents a simple, effective and illuminating way of understanding and working with dreams in clinical practice. It describes the mechanisms through which the mind/brain processes our... (more)