Psychoanalysis Books
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)
The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham 1907-1925
Karl Abraham was an important and influential early member of Freud's inner circle of trusted colleagues. As such, he played a significant part in the establishment of psychoanalysis as a recognised... (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)
The Basic Fault: Therapeutic Aspects of Regression
A classic work, which describes the primal trauma between parent and child.
Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion
Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion outlines the basic ideas in their thinking and shows in detail how these ideas can be used to tackle a clinical problem. The contributors correct some common... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Literature and War: Papers 1972-1995
This collection of writings by Hanna Segal shows how the same conflicts between life and death instincts, phantasy and reality, are experienced in the consulting room, reflected in literature, and... (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)
Projective Identification and Psychotherapeutic Technique
An examination of projective identification and its clinical uses from a Kleinian perspective. The author puts forward the hypothesis that identification is the patient's way of mastering significant... (more)
Dream, Phantasy and Art
Symbolism, aesthetics, dreams, and psychotic thinking are explored by Segal, who integrates the ideas of Freud, Klein and Bion.
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality: Collected Papers
The classic work on object relations, which bases its understanding of human development upon the infant's innate need for relationships.
Psycho-Analytic Insight and Relationships: A Kleinian Approach
Using theoretical exposition and case material, the author demonstrates how Klein's main concepts and theories illuminate the practice of social casework. (more)
Unimaginable Storms: A Search for Meaning in Psychosis
A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care... (more)
Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference
In this work, the author discusses gender issues from the perspective of developmental psychoanalysis. She makes a case for what she calls gender heterodoxy - a view of the similarities and... (more)
The Innocence of Dreams
Rycroft argues that dreams are not guilty fantasies, nor abnormal states, but innocent flights of the imagination, released from the censorship of the waking mind. He examines the many debates since... (more)
Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood
To Freud, female sexuality remained something of a mystery: a riddle and a dark continent. He urged his female colleagues to enlighten him. Many have since done so - and this book is a most vivid and... (more)
Shame: The Underside of Narcissism
Offers a thorough and critically-minded review of the literature on shame, integrating major concepts from object-relations and self psychology to arrive at a new understanding of the phenomena.
From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness: Second Edition
Violence is all around us; yet, despite its widespread prevalence, we remain unclear about its causes. In this book, Felicity de Zulueta begins by defining ‘violence' as distinct from ‘aggression',... (more)
Thinking, Feeling and Being
Ignacio Matte-Blanco has made one of the most original contributions to psychoanalysis since Freud. In this book, which includes an introductory chapter to his work by Eric Rayner and David Tuckett,... (more)
The Dynamics of the Social: Selected Essays Volume 2
The author reflects on a variety of social situations from a psychoanalytical perspective, drawing from her experiences of working over a thirty-year period. It concludes with a wide-ranging survey... (more)
Transference Neurosis and Transference Psychosis: Toward a Basic Unity
An intensely personal, idiosyncratic, yet earnest and straightforward book. Although some will disagree with the theoretical ideas, it would be impossible not to empathize with the author's struggle... (more)
Life and Death in Psychoanalysis
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Freedom to Relate: Psychoanalytic Explorations
What is the relationship between psychoanalysis and human freedom? Does psychoanalysis enhance it? Is it coercive? What are the limits? These may appear to be deceptively simple questions, but Roger... (more)
Pre-Object Relatedness: Earliest Attachment and the Psychoanalytic Situation
Explores the primitive (yet highly complex) emotional world of the infant, a preverbal world that predates memory, symbolic representation, self-reflection and verbal description. With detailed... (more)
The Power of Countertransference: Innovations in Analytic Technique: Second Edition
This book re-works current and past ideas on countertransference into a new, interpersonal approach to treatment. The author emphasises mutuality and debunks the idea that psychoanalysis needs to... (more)
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality
In 1914, Freud wrote in On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement: "Hungary, so near geographically to Austria, and so far from it scientifically, has produced only one collaborator, Sandor... (more)
Love Relations: Normality and Pathology
From adolescence to old age, this work examines the success and failure of sexual love in couples. Amongst other topics, it describes the biological and psychological determinants and elements of the... (more)
Nations Without Nationalism
Underlying Julia Kristeva’s Nations Without Nationalism is the idea that otherness, whether it be ethnic, religious, social, or political, needs to be understood and accepted in order to guarantee... (more)