Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
Clinical Seminars and Other Works
This selection of clinical seminars held by Wilfred Bion in Brasilia (1975) and Sao Paulo (1978) is the nearest we shall ever get to experiencing his application of his theories and views to... (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)
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)
Sincerity and Other Works: Collected Papers of Donald Meltzer
Among the subjects this volume touches on are adult psychopathology, psychoanalytic technique, developmental theory, the training of psychoanalysts, child and adolescent psychopathology, and the... (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)
The Long Week-End 1897-1919: Part of a Life
The Long Week-End is a reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of Wilfred Bion's life: eight years of childhood in India, ten years at public school in England, and three years in the... (more)
Countertransference: Theory, Technique, Teaching
A collection of papers on the Oedipus complex, divided into three parts: theory, practice and supervision. The contributors, who include Joyce McDougall, Hanna Segal, Otto Kernberg and Leon Grinberg,... (more)
The Unconscious as Infinite Sets: An Essay in Bi-logic
A systematic effort to rethink Freud's theory of the unconscious, aiming to separate out the different forms of unconsciousness. The logico-mathematical treatment of the subject is made easy because... (more)
Essential Papers on Dreams
This collection traces the history of psychoanalytically informed thinking about dreams, using selected contributions from Freud to the present to highlight both the legacy of The Interpretation of... (more)
Essential Papers on Object Loss
This choice collection contains some of the most significant contributions to psychoanalytic and psychological understandingof the effect of object loss on adults and children. Designed for... (more)
The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45
A complete record, including all relevant papers and correspondence, of the psychoanalytic feud between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein.
Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2: Mainly Practice
Includes papers on the interpretation of destructiveness, the use of 'part-object language', the role of the past in the present, and 'acting-in'. 315 pages. (more)
Developments in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a science evidently fore-ordained to growth and expansion, and among those who have extended the scope of both theory and practice Melanie Klein holds a unique place.
This book... (more)
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
When The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense was first published in German in 1936 it was at once recognized as a major contribution to psychoanalytic psychology, and its translation into English... (more)
A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought
A comprehensive overview of Kleinian terminology and theory. This book contains thirteen main entries on the basic Kleinian concepts - splitting, paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions,... (more)
Final Contributions to the Problems and Methods of Psycho-analysis
This final volume includes "Confusion of Tongues Between Children and Adults" in which Ferenczi formulates his controversal ideas on childhood sexuality, and the conflict between the languages of... (more)
Further Contributions to the Theory and Technique of Psycho-analysis
Charts the development of Ferenczi's 'Active Technique' in papers such as "The Technique of Psychoanalysis" and "Further Development of an Active Therapy". Ferenczi made outstanding contributions to... (more)
First Contributions to Psycho-analysis
This book is a collection of Ferenczi's early papers which secured him, in an amazingly short time, his prominent position among Freud's followers. Included here are several of the papers that now... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theories of Development: An Integration
Reviews the psychoanalytic literature on human development, and provides an original psychosexual theory based in the emotional, behavioural, cognitive and social. (more)
Unorthodox Freud: The View from the Couch
The authors examine the gulf between Freud's actual technique (the nature of the curative process on which it is based) and modern re-interpretations of it, which have been codified as the 'basic... (more)
On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
In this collection of psychoanalytic essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects, the author evolves his own distinctive version of psychoanalysis as part of a wider cultural... (more)