Psychoanalysis Books
Characterological Transformation
Johnson uses an active treatment approach that draws upon all major schools of psychotherapeutic thought, choosing techniques that serve specific purposes and outlining changes in behavioral,... (more)
The Freud Reader
Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-Century life. To understand Freud entails exploration not only of Freud's scientific and psychological papers, but also his writings on art,... (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)
D.W. Winnicott
Presents the life, theoretical contributions, and legacy of Donald Winnicott who, as well as a psychoanalyst, was also a child psychologist and paediatrician. The book explains in detail the... (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)
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)
Essential Papers on Masochism
A comprehensive collection of papers on this key psychoanalytic topic, from the early days of psychoanalysis to the latest theories. 533 pages. (more)
Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis: New Edition
Using the theories of Freud and Klein, the author argues that psychoanalysis provides the most penetrating answers concerning the problems of the subconscious and irrationality.
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)
Elements of Psychoanalysis
Elements is a discussion of categorising the ideational context and emotional experience that may occur in a psychoanalytic interview. The text aims to expand the reader's understanding of cognition... (more)
Theatres of the Mind: Illusion and Truth on the Psychoanalytic Stage
'Theatres of the Mind is one of the finest contributions of contemporary French psychanalysis', writes Otto Kernberg in his foreword to this book. Using the idiom of drama, Joyce McDougall... (more)
Plea for a Measure of Abnormality
This is Joyce McDougall's most comprehensive clinical and theoretical book. Its title conveys her tolerant stance toward human differences and forms of deviance. It is among the wisest and best-loved... (more)
Human Nature
This is Donald Winnicott's only attempt to write an overview of his ideas. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main... (more)
Creativity and Perversion
Explores the relationship and contrast between the creative mind and 'the artful universe of the pervert'.
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)
Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred
'Why in this enlightened day would one choose to entitle a work Perversion, a term that is becoming passé? The great research published in the last decade or two has taught us that aberrant sexual... (more)
Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life
'This is a study of sexual excitement. It is the fifth book - perhaps more accurately, the fifth chapter in one work - on masculinity and femininity (gender identity), carrying forward ideas examined... (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)
Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1972–1975
A highly controversial and divisive character, Masud Khan’s story is both fascinating and complex. The publication of his private Work Books, which record personal encounters and opinions, present... (more)
Using Psychoanalysis to Understand and Address AI Bias: Refractions in the Digital Mirror
In Using Psychoanalysis to Understand and Address AI Bias: Refractions in the Digital Mirror, Karyne E. Messina uses a psychoanalytic lens to explore the subconscious forces driving AI... (more)
The Defenses in Psychoanalysis: Theoretical Concepts to Empirical Research
The Defenses in Psychoanalysis explores the nature and assessment of defense mechanisms through an integration of psychoanalytic theory and empirical research in contemporary... (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)
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)