Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
The Impossible Return – Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning
The Impossible Return – Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning is a work of creative non-fiction and auto-theory. It is part cancer memoir, part psychoanalytic theorizing,... (more)
Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence: Concepts and Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy
Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence presents a comprehensive integrative theory and style of therapeutic involvement that reflects a relational and non-pathological perspective.
Containing... (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)
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)
Getting Lost: Reflections on Psychopolitical Isolation and Withdrawal
Getting Lost is focused not on physical distancing and literal sequestration but on psychosocial isolation and withdrawal following a crisis such as the global Covid-19 pandemic. It draws on... (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)
Learning and Unlearning through the Clinical Encounter: Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
This book examines the learning process of becoming a psychoanalytic practitioner and presents training experiences at the Tavistock Clinic through the lens of both teachers and trainees.
The... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Childhood: A Memoir of Growing up in Mid-Twentieth-Century New York
Writer Caroline Zilboorg tells the fascinating story of growing up in New York City in the 1950s as the daughter of the Russian-American psychoanalyst and medical historian Gregory Zilboorg, a... (more)
Exploring Psychoanalytic Concepts through Culture, the Arts and Contemporary Life: Learning from Observation and Experience
This book explores how psychoanalytic ideas and thinking enhance our understanding and engagement with the creative arts and contemporary life.
Many of us love to read poetry and novels and... (more)
Psychodynamic Supervision Theory and Practices: In a New Key
This book sets out a new model for psychodynamic supervision, designed around relational psychoanalytic theory and practice. It emphasizes the development of the self of the therapist and working... (more)
Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children: Learning to Surf
In Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children: Learning to Surf, Mary Brady expertly guides the reader through the challenging and vital process of working with young analysands.
Brady... (more)
Bion's Transformations Revisited and Expanded: Essays on the Complexity of Psychoanalysis
In this illuminating volume, Arnaldo Chuster provides a thorough critique of Wilfred Bion's seminal 1965 work, Transformations.
Offering a rich and nuanced opportunity to enhance one's... (more)
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan explores convergences and divergences in the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, with a special focus on the implications of their work... (more)
The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice
Mitchell Wilson explores the fundamental role that lack and desire play in psychoanalytic interpretation by using a comparative method that engages different psychoanalytic traditions: Lacanian,... (more)
For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience can shed light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art.
Through neuroscienfitic and... (more)
Freud's Student Years: A Psychobiography
In Freud’s Student Years, Florian Houssier presents the life experiences and inner conflicts of Sigmund Freud from his eighteenth birthday to his clinical practice, showing how these experiences... (more)
Formative Media: Psychoanalysis and Digital Media Platforms
Formative Media presents a psychoanalytic and psychosocial inquiry into the significance of the most widely used digital platforms – including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter (X), and Instagram –... (more)