Psychoanalysis Books
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)
A Critical Companion to Bion: Functions of a Psychoanalytic Personality
A Critical Companion to Bion is an introduction to the extraordinary contributions of W.R. Bion, providing a close and detailed reading of his work, anchored in systematic critical expositions of the... (more)
Truth in a Time of Disinformation: Psychoanalytic Insights
Truth in a Time of Disinformation: Psychoanalytic Insights examines how the pursuit of truth—inner and outer, personal and collective—can restore coherence and integrity to a fractured world,... (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)
Philip Bromberg: A Contemporary Introduction
This important volume offers the first introduction to Philip Bromberg and his work, introducing the reader to his groundbreaking contributions to clinical psychoanalysis.
Anthony Bass and... (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)
With Climate in Mind: Psychoanalysts on Climate Breakdown
This groundbreaking book enriches and expands psychoanalytic theory and method as it applies to the climate.
It embeds psychoanalysis in environmental and cultural awareness; restores the... (more)
A Michael Eigen Companion: Moments of Wisdom from a Psychoanalytic Mystic
A Michael Eigen Companion offers 150 essential quotes, carefully selected from Michael Eigen's books, alongside explorative commentary.
An expert on the work of Eigen, Bagai’s curated quotes are... (more)
Gender with Sexuality: Situations of Psychoanalytic Learning
This book explores the changing attitudes and clinical responses to gender and transition in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
It examines gender as a dynamic and elusive psychic situation -... (more)
Ferenczi Revisited: Tongues, Trauma and Transformation
Ferenczi Revisited explores Sándor Ferenczi’s most significant contributions to psychoanalysis and their relevance for contemporary practice.
The book covers a range of topics, including... (more)
Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema
Inspired by the Wild About Horror segments on the Evolution of Horror Podcast, Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema investigates fifty films across six core subgenres—Mind, Body, Nature, Aliens, Vampires,... (more)
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Developmental Trauma: A Casebook for Working with Children and Their Families
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Developmental Trauma offers mental health practitioners a transdiagnostic model to support the needs of traumatised children with both internalising (emotional) and... (more)
Mentalization and Literary Form
This book examines the ways in which literary form facilitates mentalization and our ability to be aware of our own and others’ mental states, showing how we can use this awareness to make sense of... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health: Safe Harbor
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health reflects on psychoanalytic work with vulnerable people during the refugee crisis.
Chrysi Giannoulaki describes her work as a supervisor of... (more)
Lacan on Society: A Radical Archeology of the Social Bond
Lacan on Society is an exhaustive archeological and contingent review of Lacan’s approaches to society throughout his work, seminars, and écrits.
Through a systematic and chronological analysis... (more)
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis presents conversations with clinicians about their research interests, and their experiences in relation to psychoanalytic practice, focusing... (more)
Transactional Analysis: The Basics
This accessible textbook on transactional analysis (TA) provides a comprehensive overview of TA theory, with a strong emphasis throughout on practical application.
The core theory of TA is... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Play: Expanding Psychoanalytic Concepts from a Play Perspective
In this book, Steven H. Cooper expands on his thinking of psychoanalysis as a form of play and the implications of this for theory and clinical practice.
The most important activities of the... (more)
Inside Psychosis: A Clinical and Therapeutic Exploration of Working on Male and Female Acute Psychiatric Wards
This book offers an introductory overview of treatment of psychosis in in-patient acute ward settings, looking at both male and female wards.
Taking a broadly psychoanalytic perspective, the... (more)
Gender, Identifications, and Identities: Dialogues at the Edges
Gender, Identifications, and Identities considers the increasing visibility of sexual and gender diversity and reflects on how this is felt within psychoanalysis.
The international contributors... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts: Culture and Kulturarbeit
A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud’s anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works of fiction and poetry.
Giuseppina Antinucci offers close readings of the... (more)
Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions: Legacy, Transformation and Becoming
Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions provides a thorough appraisal of the current state of psychoanalytic groups and how they might move forward under fraught conditions, representing the outcome... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture
In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees: Bonds and Fractures Across Identities and Cultures
Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees presents a rich panorama of the clinical issues facing those who experience migration.
Thorough and empathetic in its approach, this book... (more)