Psychoanalysis Books
Narcissism: A Contemporary Introduction
Narcissism: A Contemporary Introduction provides a historical overview of this key foundational concept within psychoanalytic thought.
Richard Wood offers a critical overview of the theoretical... (more)
Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution
An updated edition of the seminal book that explores why the interest in psychoanalysis in France exploded after 1968 and what it says about culture and therapy.
Among Western countries, France... (more)
Who Am I? Exploring Identity through Sexuality, Politics, and Art
Individual and collective identity are at the heart of key issues in politics, gender and sexuality, and the arts. This book explores nationalism, social violence, electoral processes, large... (more)
The Bion Seminars at the A-Santamaria Association: Clinical and Theoretical Explorations
The Bion Seminars at the A-Santamaria Association offers readers insightful analyses and commentaries on Bion’s key papers and books, as well as providing a unique set of discussions and explorations... (more)
On Freud's Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through
In On Freud’s “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” international contributors from a range of psychoanalytic backgrounds reflect on this key 1914 paper.
Each chapter considers an aspect... (more)
Michael Balint and His World: The Budapest Years
This fascinating collection explores the life of renowned psychoanalyst Michael Balint in his native Budapest. With a Balint revival in mind, Michael Balint and His World: The Budapest Years brings... (more)
The Women of Anna Freud's War Nurseries: Their Life and Work
In this volume, Christiane Ludwig-Körner describes the lives and work of the staff members of the War Nurseries set up and run by Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham during the Second World... (more)
Psychoanalysis Globally Networked: The Origins of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies
Since the very beginning with Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalytic movement has been in the sway of strong group dynamics. There have been hierarchies, tensions between subgroups, splits and exclusions.... (more)
Recognising, Understanding and Treating Nameless States: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
In this captivating volume, Bernd Nissen considers the multiplicity of nameless states, and the impact of their discovery on psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The nameless is considered... (more)
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker James Grotstein, A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often complex work of W. R. Bion.
This... (more)
Marion Milner: A Contemporary Introduction
This focused and thorough book by Alberto Stefana and Alessio Gamba delves into Marion Milner’s contribution to psychoanalytic clinical theory and technique.
The authors offer an overview of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional... (more)
Binocular Vision: An Inquiry into Psychoanalytic Techniques and Field Theory
Binocular Vision in Psychoanalysis explains field theory from a Bionian perspective, while exploring the relationship between art and psychoanalysis.
Elena Molinari starts from Bion’s double... (more)
Time in Practice: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Listening Differently
Time In Practice: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Listening Differently is an original exploration of diverse ways in which individuals ‘live’ time, consciously and unconsciously. Challenging the... (more)
How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers: Musings on Media Psychoanalysis
An investigation into how the fields of mental health and media can work together more collaboratively. Brett Kahr is well-known and was previously Resident Psychotherapist at the B.B.C. Explores... (more)
The Clinical Paradigms of Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion: Comparisons and Dialogues
This book introduces the psychoanalytic principles of both Winnicott and Bion, to compare the ways in which their concepts evolved, and to show how their different approaches contribute to... (more)
Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction
This insightful and innovative book sheds light on the complexity of the concept of guilt, while exploring aspects of guilt that have previously been overlooked in psychoanalytic theory and... (more)
The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later
The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later revisits Freud’s classic 1923 essay, which developed key psychoanalytic concepts and presented a radical revision of his earlier theory.
International... (more)
Bion's Theory of Dreams: A Visionary Model of the Mind
Through a richly detailed close reading of Wilfred R. Bion’s work on dreaming, as scattered across multifarious and largely unworked texts, this book argues that Bion’s thinking can form a unified... (more)
Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion
Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion takes a fresh approach to this much revered analyst, focusing on the unique contributions to be found in his analytical and supervisorial work and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality: A Contemporary Introduction
This important book examines the ways in which same sex desire, or "homosexuality" has been theorised by psychoanalysis during its history to date and the impact of that on clinical... (more)
Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis
Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the... (more)
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work
Longlisted for the 2022 CMI Management Book of the Year Award
Who do you bring with you to work?
Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow with our pyjamas when we... (more)
Herbert Rosenfeld: A Contemporary Introduction
This bold and insightful book is the first to present the full work of highly influential British analyst, Herbert Rosenfeld.
This Contemporary Introduction covers all of Rosenfeld’s significant... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Other Disciplines Confront Prejudice: Discrimination Against the Other
Psychoanalysis and Other Disciplines Confront Prejudice: Discrimination Against the Other presents interdisciplinary perspectives on prejudice.
This book considers both the negative and positive... (more)
Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma
Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma proposes that asexuality is a libidinally founded desire for no sexual desire, a concept not included in psychoanalytic... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans*
Transcending the sex and gender dichotomy, rethinking sexual difference, transgenerational trauma, the decolonization of gender, non-Western identity politics, trans*/feminist debates, embodiment,... (more)
Mourning and Metabolization: Close Readings in the Psychoanalytic Literature of Loss
By bringing together perspectives from psychoanalysis and literary studies and considering the reciprocal relation between ideas about mourning and our internal worlds, this book provides a guide to... (more)
The Marion Milner Tradition
The Marion Milner Tradition provides a comprehensive overview of Milner’s eight-volume oeuvre for the first time, and celebrates her pioneering achievements both in psychoanalytic world and in... (more)
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter is a pioneering reflection on the psychology of racism and its impact on us all. With the intimacy of personal experience and depth of... (more)