Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Sex and Sexuality: Winnicottian Perspectives
"Winnicott" and "sex" are two subjects that are rarely associated with one another. Sexuality is not a prominent theme within the work of Winnicott, who preferred to concentrate on the development of... (more)
The Mind of the Paedophile: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
The Mind of the Paedophile discusses one of the most controversial and misunderstood subjects in the psychoanalytic arena today - paedophilia. A variety of treatments and therapies, including brain... (more)
The Vale of Soulmaking: The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind
The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the "internal object" with its... (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)
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)
Borderline Welfare: Feeling and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare
Which ‘forms of feeling’ are facilitated and which discouraged within the cultures and structures of modern state welfare? This book illuminates the social and psychic dynamics of these new public... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Children and Adults: Meltzer in Barcelona
This volume is a collection of seminars and lectures Donald Meltzer gave to the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona under Dr Leon Grinberg, and later Dr Benito Lopez, during his visit to Barcelona. The... (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)
The Portable Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. (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)
A Language for Psychosis: Psychoanalysis of Psychotic States
This volume brings together papers from a number of international writers who are concerned with understanding and treating psychoses. The orientation of the text is psychoanalytic, but it is also... (more)
Herbert Rosenfeld at Work: The Italian Seminars
Between 1978 and 1985 Dr Herbert Rosenfeld was one of a number of British analysts invited by a group of Societa di Psicoanalisi Italiani members to conduct a series of seminars and supervisions for... (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)
Winnicott Studies. No 11
The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application. (more)
Winnicott Studies. No 6
The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application. (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)
Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision
This work investigates one of the most controversial, yet influential figures in recent history. Sigmund Freud - the enigmatic founder of psychoanalysis - is analyzed through the myths he developed... (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)
Anna Freud: A View of Development, Disturbance and Therapeutic Techniques
This study takes a fresh look at the relatively unknown contributions of Anna Freud's work to psychoanalytical theory and child development. The book highlights how her work is still relevant and... (more)
Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma and Dissociation
These collected papers constitute the unfolding of a clinical perspective - a series of reflections on the analytical relationship with its own implicit order, its own progression of ideas and its... (more)
The Uninvited Guest: Emerging from Narcissism towards Marriage
A fascinating and imaginative book combining psychoanalytic theory and literature - in particular classic plays about marriage and married couples - to help couples therapists as they piece together... (more)
Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse
This seminal work on the neglected topic of affect is structured in three parts: affect in psychoanalytic literature, clinical practice of psychoanalysis and theoretical study, and affect,language... (more)