Psychoanalysis Books
Attention and Creation: Growth in the Vertices of W.R. Bion
The implicit background of this book consists of an optimistic approach to creating mind forms that improve the condition of humanity, deriving from the legends of Christ and the Buddha and the... (more)
The Evocative Object World
Christopher Bollas builds on Freud's account of dream formation, combining it with perceptive clinical, theoretical and cultural insights to show how the psychoanalytical method can provide a rich... (more)
Time, Space, and Phantasy
Time, Space, and Phantasy examines the connections between time, space, phantasy and sexuality in clinical practice. It explores the subtleties of the encounter between patient and analyst,... (more)
Sex and the Psyche: The Truth About Our Most Secret Fantasies
What's going on in your head when you go to bed? We talk about sex increasingly openly today, but when it comes to our most private fantasies it's often a different matter.
Here psychotherapist... (more)
Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable: The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches
How do we know when what is happening between two people should be called psychoanalysis? What is a psychoanalytic process and how do we know when one is taking place? Psychoanalysis Comparable and... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance
This book presents the proceedings of the of the conference on the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance held in Belfast in June 2008.
The aim of the conference was to offer a state of the... (more)
Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work
Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work recounts and explores the disappointing and sometimes tragic evolutions of the treatments of certain patients who are resistant to the effects of... (more)
Guilt and Its Visissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality
How do psychoanalysts explain human morality? "Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality" focuses on the way Melanie Klein and successive generations of her followers pursued... (more)
Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy
People like to talk. We know that talking to an attentive and thoughtful listener can be helpful in clarifying conscious and unconscious feelings, thoughts, and motivations. But is talk enough? The... (more)
Skin in Psychoanalysis
Skin in Psychoanalysis is an important theoretical contribution, revising several authors starting with Freud in whose writing we can now discover multiple direct or indirect references to the skin.... (more)
Side Effects
Side effects are things we do not intend. And, in this collection of essays, Adam Phillips examines how the things we don't mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most... (more)
What is This Thing Called Love? A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples
A clear how-to guide for carrying out psychotherapy with couples from a psychoanalytic perspective. The book draws on both early and contemporary psychoanalytic knowledge, explaining how each theory... (more)
Time and Memory
The concern with time permeates Freud's work, from Studies on Hysteria to Analysis Terminable and Interminable, which point out to a network of concepts that indicate Freud's complex theories on... (more)
Mothers and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity
"Mother and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity" challenges the theory of the Oedipus complex, which permeates psychoanalytic theory, psychology, semiotics and cultural studies. The book... (more)
Interpreting Dreams
One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, this project reimagines one the modern era's greatest writers.... (more)
Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
This book provides easy to read, concise, and clinically useful explanations of over 1800 terms and concepts from the field of psychoanalysis. A history of each term is included in its definition and... (more)
Generation: Preoccupations and Conflicts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Generation is both an introduction to and a comparative study of contemporary psychoanalytic clinical theory. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of how new ways of thinking about... (more)
Recovery of the Lost Good Object
This book brings together the hugely influential papers and seminars of Eric Brenman, revealing his impact on the development of psychoanalysis and allowing a better understanding of his distinctive... (more)
Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling
Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between patient and analyst. Antonino Ferro... (more)
The Anorexic Mind
Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence which may be transitory, to serious and chronic mental illnesses. The Anorexic Mind offers a coherent approach to... (more)
The Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique
A revised and updated edition of this recent classic, including new material on insight and early development, amongst others. Within each subject, the author presents the theories and observations... (more)
A Secure Base
Controversial yet powerfully influential to this day, this classic collection of Bowlby's lectures offers important guidelines for child rearing based on the crucial role of early relationships. As... (more)
On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and... (more)
The Unconscious
One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our... (more)
Human Development: An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Growth, Maturity and Ageing: Fourth Edition
This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate new developments in the field. The authors discuss each of the crucial stages in human development through birth, adolescence,... (more)
Emotional Storm
Eigen explores the broad spectrum of emotions we experience in our relatedness to others, from feelings of longing, plenitude, and fulfillment to starvation, suffocation, and blind rage. Unlike... (more)
Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism
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The Italian Seminars
Previously unpublished in English, this book comprises lectures W.R. Bion gave in Rome, in 1977. The volume consists of questions from the floor and Bion's fascinating and, at times, controversial... (more)
Sibling Relationships
For this volume, Prophecy Coles has brought together a group of distinguished writers to explore a wide range of issues affecting sibling relationships. This exciting collection of papers addresses a... (more)