Psychoanalysis Books
The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology
The ground-breaking book which attempts to bridge the gap between the psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological theories of child development. (more)
The Ego and Analysis of Defense: Second Edition
'The Ego and Analysis of Defense' represents a major advance in analytic technique. This book, together with the series of seminal journal articles he published over the past thirty years are a... (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.
Doing Supervision and Being Supervised
There is always a lively interest in the supervisory process and its explication. Courses in supervision abound and the critical role of supervision in becoming a psychotherapist is widely... (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)
Clinical and Observational Psychoanalytic Research: Roots of a Controversy - Andre Green & Daniel Stern
Few topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. The text collects papers from a London conference, along... (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 Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion
Psychoanalysis, as seen through Bion's eyes, is a radical departure. The Symingtons explain Bion's concepts in relation to clinical practice. Each chapter looks in depth at a particular theme. (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)
Essential Papers on Suicide
A collection of 40 papers looking at the psychodynamics of Suicide from a variety of perspectives. (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.
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)
Papers on Psychoanalysis
This volume brings together many of the important writings of Hans Loewald, one of the major theoreticians of psychoanalysis today. Among other subjects, Dr. Loewald discusses the nature of the... (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
160 pages. (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)
The Wolf-Man and Sigmund Freud
It is a well known that the Wolf-Man was the subject of what James Strachey described as 'the most elaborate and no doubt the most important of all Freud's case histories'. It is less well known that... (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)
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as... (more)
Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain: The Work of Melanie Klein, W.R.D. Fairbairn and D.W. Winnicott
Tracing the line of succession from Sigmund Freud, through Melanie Klein to Fairbairn and Winnicott, Judith Hughes demonstrates the internal development of the British school of psychoanalysis and... (more)
A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: New Edition
This dictionary provides helpful and incisive definitions which, read together, comprise a sustained commentary on psychoanalysis. The text has been thoroughly revised with an extended introduction,... (more)
The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi
This book is an edited version of the clinical diary of Sandor Ferenczi, a noted Hungarian psychoanalyst. In a sequence of short, condensed entries, he records self-critical reflections on... (more)
About Children and Children No Longer: Collected Papers 1942-1980
About Children and Children-no-Longer is the long awaited collection of Paula Heimann's published and unpublished papers. From the published work it includes the seminal paper 'On... (more)
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?: A Memorial to W.R. Bion
All the contributors to this compilation knew Bion personally and were influenced by his work. They include: Herbert Rosenfeld, Frances Tustin, Andre Green, Donald Meltzer and Hanna... (more)