Psychoanalysis Books
The Patient and the Analyst: The Basis of the Psychoanalytic Process
This is a completely revised and enlarged edition of the well-known classic by Sandler, Dare and Holder. In the twenty years since the previous edition was published much progress has been made in... (more)
Attention and Interpretation
Bion's central thesis in this volume is that for the study of people, whether individually or in groups, a cardinal requisite is accurate observation, accompanied by accurate appreciation and... (more)
The Long Week-End 1897-1919: Part of a Life
The Long Week-End is a reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of Wilfred Bion's life: eight years of childhood in India, ten years at public school in England, and three years in the... (more)
Essential Papers on Borderline Disorders: 100 Years at the Border
A broad cross-section of essays examining all facets of borderline disorders.
The Unconscious as Infinite Sets: An Essay in Bi-logic
A systematic effort to rethink Freud's theory of the unconscious, aiming to separate out the different forms of unconsciousness. The logico-mathematical treatment of the subject is made easy because... (more)
Essential Papers on Object Loss
This choice collection contains some of the most significant contributions to psychoanalytic and psychological understandingof the effect of object loss on adults and children. Designed for... (more)
Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry
Over a period of several decades, D.W. Winnicott evolved a personal way of relating to and communicating with children, offering them a live professional setting in which to discover themselves. He... (more)
The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45
A complete record, including all relevant papers and correspondence, of the psychoanalytic feud between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein.
Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1: Mainly Theory
Includes sections on projective identification, thinking, psychosis, and pathological organisations of the personality.
Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers
The value of Winnicott's work has become more and more widely recognized not only among psycho-analysts but also psychologists, educators, social workers, and men and women in every branch of... (more)
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 Spontaneous Gesture: Selected Letters of D.W. Winnicott
This volume consists of the collected letters of D. W. Winnicott, a central figure in British psychoanalysis in the generation following Freud. Suspicious of dogma and deeply committed to the value... (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)
Clinical Klein
An impressive examination of the evolution and contemporary practice of Kleinian psychoanalysis. In this book, the case histories of Melanie Klein and her followers are scrutinised, to examine both... (more)
The Language of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize rigidly into a definitive conceptual system. The need... (more)
Before I was I: Psychoanalysis and the Imagination
This volume is the collected papers of a leading figure in British psychoanalysis. The book is divided into three parts, which show her at work with individual patients, doctors and marital... (more)
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)
Freud: A Modern Master: Second Edition
Now available again in paperback. A fine, concise account of the life and work of Freud, which might prove useful to anyone seeking a general overview before plunging into Freud's works. (more)
Final Contributions to the Problems and Methods of Psycho-analysis
This final volume includes "Confusion of Tongues Between Children and Adults" in which Ferenczi formulates his controversal ideas on childhood sexuality, and the conflict between the languages of... (more)
Further Contributions to the Theory and Technique of Psycho-analysis
Charts the development of Ferenczi's 'Active Technique' in papers such as "The Technique of Psychoanalysis" and "Further Development of an Active Therapy". Ferenczi made outstanding contributions to... (more)
First Contributions to Psycho-analysis
This book is a collection of Ferenczi's early papers which secured him, in an amazingly short time, his prominent position among Freud's followers. Included here are several of the papers that now... (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)
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)
Psychic Experience and Problems of Technique
By examining changes in the patient's experience of 'inner space', this book records the development of the author's understanding of the patient's experience and its vicissitudes. The book goes on... (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)
Hidden Conversations: An Introduction to Communicative Psychoanalysis
Hidden Conversations introduces Robert Langs radical reinterpretation of psychoanalysis by presenting and expanding his ideas in new and accessible ways. It is the first clear account of the theories... (more)
The Analytic Experience: Lectures from the Tavistock
A useful exposition of clinical psychoanalysis, with particular emphasis on how it affects the patient and the analyst. There have been many expositions of psychoanalysis, but none so deeply rooted... (more)