Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Key Papers on Borderline Disorders: With IJP Internet Discussion Reviews
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series brings together the most important psychoanalytic papers in the journal's eighty-year history in a series of accessible monographs.... (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)
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)
A Pattern of Madness
Author of many respected psychoanalytic works including Narcissism: A New Theory, Emotion and Spirit, Making of a Psychotherapist and Spirit of Sanity, the distinguished psychoanalyst Neville... (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)
Elaborate Selves: Reflections and Reveries of Christopher Bollas, Michael Eigen, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Samuel and Evelyn Laeuchli, and Marie Coleman Nelson
In this fascinating volume, Anthony Molino interviews some of today's foremost thinkers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Organized around the fertile and controversial concept of multiplicity,... (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)
Ordinary People and Extra-ordinary Protections: A Post-Kleinian Approach to the Treatment of Primitive Mental States
This text investigates the development and function of "extra-ordinary protections", created to keep at bay any awareness of deeply traumatic happenings occurring at some point in life. The study... (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)
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)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Independent Tradition
This book is a collection of papers to which seven senior members of the British Association of Psychotherapists have contributed. Each essay discusses a problem or impasse the author has encountered... (more)
The Ferenczi-Groddeck Correspondence 1921-1933
A volume of the correspondence between Ferenczi and Groddeck, two psychoanalysts within the circle of Sigmund Freud. The letters bear witness to the friendship between the two men and reflect the... (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)
Soul Murder Revisited: Thoughts about Therapy, Hate, Love, and Memory
New in paperback. A reflection on the circumstances of child abuse, and on the consequences of this abuse. There are examples from literature and from clinical material. 328 pages. (more)
The Mystery of Things
In The Mystery of Things, Christopher Bollas takes the reader right to the heart of psychotherapy, examining the mysterious aspects of the self that are revealed by analysis.
The method of... (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)
The Savage God: A Study in Suicide
320 pages. (more)
Toxic Nourishment
A profound look at the origins of patient's maladies and the way they lead their lives. The author describes the analyses leading to de-programming these patients from their toxins and intoxicators.... (more)
The Chains of Eros: The Sexual in Psychoanalysis
André Green, a leading figure in contemporary psychoanalytic theory, deplores the absence of sexuality and the erotic from current psychoanalytic theory and practice. Instead, he demonstrates how... (more)
The Privacy of the Self
The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of Masud Khan's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work. He was nurtured in the tradition of Anna Freud,... (more)