Psychoanalysis Books
Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics
Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, providing an overview of the wide variety of psychoanalytic ideas that are... (more)
Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious
Andre Green attempts the complex task of identifying and examining the key ideas for a contemporary psychoanalytic practice. This undertaking is motivated both by the need for an outline of the... (more)
The Dictionary of the Work of W.R. Bion
This impressive work constitutes an important and timely addition to existing dictionaries of psychoanalytic ideas. It is not intended to replace the reading of Bion’s original texts nor is it a... (more)
Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents
The central theme of this book is concerned with the controversies on technique between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the 1920s and 1930s, and with a clear differentiation between child analysis... (more)
Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy
David Armstrong has been a leading figure internationally in the fields of organizational consultancy and group relations for many years. Robert French and Russ Vince have gathered together, for the... (more)
Play and Reflection in Donald Winnicott's Writings
The third book in the Winnicott Clinic Lecture Series contains a lecture from Professor Andre Green on Winnicott's theory on play. He discusses Winnicott's view on the importance of play and then... (more)
On Incest: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Incest is a universal taboo that is found throughout the history and mythology of the majority of societies. A neglected subject in more recent psychoanalytic work, this book was inspired by the... (more)
The Sensitive Self
We are all sensitive beings, both physically and emotionally. What do we do with our sensitivity? How much of our sensitivity can we take? How do we become partners with our sensitivity in ways that... (more)
The Electrified Tightrope
A collection of exceptional papers by Michael Eigen, selected and assembled by Adam Phillips, that represent 20 years of writing and 30 years of work. The papers examine the tension, caused by the... (more)
Psychic Deadness
Many people seek help because they feel dragged down by a sense of inner deadness that persists in an otherwise full and meaningful life. These individuals somehow remain untouched by their own inner... (more)
EMDR and the Energy Therapies: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), along with methods from the new field of energy psychology, such as the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), enable the rapid processing and... (more)
Oedipus and the Couple
This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors... (more)
Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony
This book argues that properly understood, irony plays a crucial role in therapeutic action. It is written as an invitation to clinicians to renew their own engagement with the fundamental concepts... (more)
The Sadomasochistic Perversion: The Entity and the Theories
In this book Franco de Masi examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism and surveys in detail the theories of other psychoanalysts. He explores the relationship between... (more)
Supervisions with Donald Meltzer: The Simsbury Seminars
'We see ourselves as elders, not only in age but in the tradition of a nostalgia for the fora where professionals, craftsmen, workers of all kinds meet to share tools, knowledge, skills, and... (more)
Mirror to Nature: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society
This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and... (more)
In the Analyst's Consulting Room
From the standpoint of the 'analytic field', Ferro explores basic psychoanalytic concepts, such as criteria for analysability and ending the analysis, transformations that occur during the session,... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theories: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology
This substantial and comprehensive addition to the field of psychoanalysis serves several functions. It is a source of both themes and psychoanalytic approaches to psychopathology, an evaluation of... (more)
Disappearing and Reviving: Sandor Ferenczi in the History of Psychoanalysis
This book is an indispensable work for anyone interested in the pioneering psychoanalyst Sandor Ferenczi.
As the supervisor of the recently published correspondence between Freud and Ferenczi,... (more)
Releasing the Self: The Healing Legacy of Heinz Kohut
This volume sets out the clinical observations and theories of psychoanalyst, Heinz Kohut, centering around "self psychology". It examines Kohut's own clinical illustrations and explores the... (more)
Anxiety as Symptom and Signal
These papers consider the many levels of meaning of "anxiety" and the ways anxiety functions in the analytic process. (more)
Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
According to the popular imagination, psychoanalysis is about men wanting to sleep with their mothers and women wanting penises. This book tells a different story about what has happened to sex in... (more)
Art, Creativity, Living
This volume in the Winnicott Studies series is dedicated to the life and work of Marion Milner and reflects, in varying ways, her unique use of Winnicott's work to shape her own thinking about art... (more)
Imprisoned Pain and Its Transformation
This book is a festschrift for Sydney Klein, an eminent British Psychoanalyst whose work on such topics as children, groups, psychosomatic illness, delinquent perversions, manic states, and autistic... (more)
Management of Countertransference with Borderline Patients
This is an open discussion of the emotional reactions that clinicians experience when treating borderline patients. The book offers a systematic approach to managing countertransference that... (more)
Post-Kleinian Psychoanalysis: The Biella Seminars
Kenneth Sanders' book combines a historical approach to the literature of Freud, Klein and the Post Kleinian development, with demonstrations of the central role of dream analysis. Students and... (more)
The Undead Mother
'A state of mourning is something that the late Twentieth Century has been uniquely unable to achieve. A culture based on the interchangeability of products and people, and a throw-away culture, is... (more)