Psychoanalysis Books
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 Kleinian Tradition
This set of papers, from members of the British Association of Psychotherapists, demonstrates the vitality of the 'Kleinian tradition' in work with adult patients. It is a picture of work from... (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)
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)
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
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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)
Psychoanalysis and Developmental Therapy
Many books have recently appeared on a variety of psychoanalytic topics, but relatively few have dealt specifically with problems of technique and with the theory that informs those techniques. It is... (more)
Essays on Otherness
Jean Laplanche is an incisive and important representative of contemporary psychoanalytic theorists. This text presents in English many of Laplanche's key essays and also provides an overview of his... (more)
Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
This volume collates Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last fifteen years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. Topics include how the notions of objectivity and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective
Through her numerous books and papers in learned journals, Hanna Segal has made contributions that have profoundly influenced contemporary psychoanalytic thinking. This influence extends far beyond... (more)
Fathers, Families and the Outside World
This is the second monograph to be published under the auspices of Winnicott Studies, the Squiggle Foundation's renowned series of publications on contemporary applications of Winnicott's thought.... (more)
Reason and Passion: A Celebration of the Work of Hanna Segal
Hanna Segal is one of the best-known living British psychoanalysts. She was one of the first European psychoanalysts to receive the prestigious Sigourney Award for contributions to psychoanalysis.... (more)
Separation: Attachment and Loss: Volume 2
The second volume of Attachment and Loss continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he considers separation and the anxiety that... (more)
Circular Reflections: Selected papers of Malcolm Pines.
In this selection of papers, Malcolm Pines explores many different aspects of psychoanalysis and group analysis. Section One contains four papers which highlight mirroring, child development, and... (more)
Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies: Eating Disorders and Other Pathologies
Klein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. In a highly... (more)
Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis
A discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an 'other' - other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one... (more)
Splitting: A Case of Female Masculinity
A detailed case-study of a woman, intelligent and apparantly sane, who was nevertheless convinced that she possessed - internally - a set of fully functioning male organs. The account of the womans... (more)
The Psycho-Analysis of Children
This book demonstrates Klein's work in devising the techniques of child analysis. She made treatment of young children possible and threw light on psychological development in childhood and on the... (more)
The Making of a Psychotherapist
In the first part of the book - 'Personal Qualities' - we are reminded that Psychotherapy means 'Healing the Soul', and that the healer has a moral responsibility for the state of his own mental... (more)
All My Sins Remembered: Another Part of a Life & The Other Side of Genius: Family Letters
All My Sins Remembered is the continuation of Wilfred Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end. Although it is by no means a full account of his thirty years following the First World War - and he... (more)
Cogitations
Cogitations, the last of the posthumous publications, is a collection of occasional writings representing Bion's attempts to clarify and evaluate both his own ideas and those of others by casting... (more)
Brazilian Lectures: a1973, Sao Paulo; 1974, Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo
These lectures, delivered in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during 1973 and 1974, reveal Bion in his most vital and challenging mode both in respect of the material he presents, and in his responses to... (more)
Transformations
Transformations continues the investigation of various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice which Bion commenced with Learning from Experience (1962) and pursued in Elements of... (more)
Selected Papers: Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis
The collection of Foulkes' papers, which includes some unpublished material and some published in English for the first time, comprises not only the later Group-Analytic writings but also those from... (more)