Psychoanalysis Books
Cracking Up: Unconscious Work in Self Experience
In Being a Character , Christopher Bollas argued that Freud's vision of the dream process is a model for all unconscious mental experience. In Cracking Up he extends his exploration of the inner... (more)
Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions
Explores the role of aggression in severe personality disorders and in normal and perverse sexuality, integrating new developments in psycoanalytic theory with findings from clinical work with... (more)
My Kleinian Home: Into a New Millennium
Fully revised, and including a new chapter, this is a welcome new edition of a psychoanalytic classic. The extraordinary autobiography of a woman who has had Jungian, Freudian and Kleinian analyses,... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Theory of Infantile Experience: Conceptual and Clinical Reflections
Gaddini, an eminent training analyst, was interested in the relationship between mental development and early body development. In this edited selection of his papers, clinical examples support his... (more)
The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis
Marion Milner introduces this edited collection of her papers from 1942 to 1977 with a fascinating biographical account of her development in psychoanalysis. The collection includes her classic... (more)
The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity
A collection of papers from British, French and American perspectives, examining the interplay of body and psyche in analysis.
In Dora's Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism
'These new writings - feminist, deconstructive, and Lacanian, for the most part - have a wild playfulness and a sort of sexual sparkle that...give them an extraordinary verve... The sex-playful... (more)
Impasse and Interpretation: Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline and Neurotic Patients
A powerful argument for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms, and their alleviation through psychoanalytic means.
Theatres of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness
This book looks at people who react to psychological distress through somatic manifestations, and at the psychosomatic potential of individuals in those moments when habitual psychological ways of... (more)
The Origins of Love and Hate
One of the most passionate arguments for a therapeutic practice based on the physician's love for the deeply deprived patient. It also advocates a view of human nature congruent with the findings of... (more)
Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development
Anna Freud's book deals with a most neglected aspect of psychoanalysis - normality. Its chief concern is with the ordinary problems of upbringing which face all parents and the usual phenomena... (more)
Dream Analysis: A Practical Handbook of Psychoanalysis
Written originally as a practical handbook on dream analysis, this book has established itself as a work of lasting value not only to psychoanalysts engaged in therapy, for whom it is primarily... (more)
The Work of Hanna Segal: A Kleinian Approach to Clinical Practice
A selection of Hanna Segal's work from 1950 to 1978. (more)
Shame and the Self
Explores the affect and function of shame, and its relationship to sexuality, self and others. The book breaks new ground in establishing a perspective on narcissism that differs markedly from... (more)
Relational Foundations: A Relational-Neurodevelopmental Approach to Cumulative Trauma in Clinical Practice
This book develops a relational-neurodevelopmental framework for understanding how early experience becomes procedurally encoded, organised, and transmitted across generations.
Drawing on three... (more)
Exploring Perspectives in Group Analytic Psychotherapy in Europe: Assessing Current Status and Shaping Future Directions
Exploring Perspectives in Group Analytic Psychotherapy in Europe examines the theory, practice, research, and prospective developments of group analytic psychotherapy across European contexts. The... (more)
Our Eternal Home: Bion’s Idea of the Self
In this fascinating volume, Meg Harris Williams explores Wilfred Bion’s autobiographical works, analysing their theoretical importance and continued relevance to the personal experience of others.... (more)
Perversions: A Contemporary Introduction
Perversions: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive exploration of psychoanalytic theories of perversion, tracing their evolution from Freud through contemporary practice with particular... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Contemporary Introduction
In this illuminating volume, Tamas Pataki critically examines Freud’s psychoanalytic approach to religion, tracing its intellectual evolution and impact on contemporary theories and... (more)
Counter-Time: Temporality of thought and history in clinical practice and literature
This book explores how trauma affects our experience of time, how that experience may not be linear, and how we may experience “counter-time” – a disruption or arrest of time’s flow and a perpetual... (more)
The Anorexic’s World in Psychoanalysis: Internal Drama and External Corruption
This powerful book, a multifaceted examination of anorexia nervosa explores the anorexic’s internal experience as well as the key role that specific family dynamics play in the development,... (more)
The Psychic Life of Fragments: On Splitting and the Experience of Time in Psychoanalysis
The Psychic Life of Fragments rethinks trauma and psychic fragmentation starting from the psychoanalytic clinic.
What does it mean to work with fragments in psychoanalysis? What is the psychic... (more)
Gravitational Psyche: Further Developments of the Psychoanalysis of Unstable Objects
Gravitational Psyche draws on ideas from physics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, to propose a radical reframing of how subjectivity is structured and sustained.
What if the psyche, like the... (more)
Queer Psychoanalysis: Minor Clinic and Deconstruction of Gender
Queer Psychoanalysis offers a detailed study of the tensions and contiguities between the field of queer theory and that of Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology.
Drawing on a detailed reading of the... (more)
EMDR, Dissociation, and Beyond: Reexamining and Expanding the Frame for Impactful Trauma Treatment
EMDR, Dissociation, and Beyond delves more deeply into the dissociative disorders’ literature than any previous text on this topic, providing much-needed connectivity between two fields that are... (more)
Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the Self
This revised edition of Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the Self offers a clear, detailed explanation of self-psychology theory, as it was written by Heinz Kohut.
A founder of the Self... (more)
A Philosophical Framework for Psychotherapy Integration: Psychoanalysis Meets Otherness
In this thought-provoking work Yael Peri Herzovich and Aner Govrin challenge the long-standing rivalry between psychoanalysis and other psychotherapeutic approaches, particularly cognitive behavioral... (more)
Echoes of Trauma: Meaning and Identity in Psychoanalysis
Intricately weaves psychoanalytic and developmental theory to explain how we become who we are, and how we might grow beyond the places we get stuck.
In recent decades psychological research and... (more)
Teaching Freud Now: Time Traveling Dialogues
This book offers practitioners involved in teaching and learning about Freud a new way to access and understand his ideas, blending the author's teaching legacy with feedback and insights from... (more)
Remembrances of Arnold Wm. Rachman: Sándor Ferenczi Scholar and Psychoanalys
This book explores the implications of Arnold Rachman’s work in interpreting and applying Sándor Ferenczi’s approach to psychoanalysis to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Drawing... (more)