Psychoanalysis Books
Why Read Klein? The Importance of Melanie Klein's work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Why Read Klein? explores the importance of Melanie Klein’s work to contemporary psychoanalysis, her contributions as a key early psychoanalyst and continued influence on contemporary... (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)
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)
Polymorphisms: Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Polymorphisms presents an overview of key theories, ideas and issues within psychoanalysis relating to sexual and gender diversity.
The chapters consider key topics including the... (more)
Gender, Identifications, and Identities: Dialogues at the Edges
Gender, Identifications, and Identities considers the increasing visibility of sexual and gender diversity and reflects on how this is felt within psychoanalysis.
The international contributors... (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)
Subterranean Politics and Freud’s Legacy: Critical Theory and Society
Subterranean Politics and Freud's Legacy seeks to reestablish psychoanalysis as an ally to critical theory's efforts to restore subjectivity and oppose systemic domination in modernity. Given... (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)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Psychiatric Practice: Premises and Clinical Portraits
In this uniquely intimate and clinical book, Mark Kinet explores the vital role of psychodynamic psychotherapy in psychiatric work.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Psychiatric Practice: Premises... (more)
The Loss of Self: Self-Writing as a Tool in Borderline Psychoanalysis
The Loss of Self considers distinctions and connections between the writing of survival and survival as a mode of being and thinking encountered in analytic work with borderline... (more)
The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck: Psychoanalysis and Religion
The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck provides an overview of the life of Dr. Leo Baeck (1873–1956), a German-Jewish rabbi, theologian, historian and Holocaust survivor, from a psychoanalytic... (more)
The Fraternal Complex in the Middle East: Group and Family Psychoanalysis for Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
The Fraternal Complex in the Middle East extends group and family psychoanalytic concepts to formulate hypotheses on the psychic functioning of nation-states as very large families.
Focusing on... (more)
Radical Freud: Reconstructing the Bisexuality Thesis
Radical Freud reveals a radical dimension to Sigmund Freud's sexual theory that has previously been neglected.
Thomas Olver argues that Freud's radical heritage has been transformed into an... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Governance: Discourse and Decisions, Identities and Futures
Psychoanalysis and Governance makes a cogent argument for the use of psychoanalytic perspectives in the understanding of governance, the process of collective decision-making which maintains and... (more)
The Psychodynamics of Trauma and Modern Horror Cinema: I Am What Haunts Me
In this illuminating volume, Carlos Pitillas and Ismael Martínez-Biurrun provide in-depth analysis of contemporary horror films from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Drawing on Freudian... (more)
Depression: A Contemporary Introduction
This book serves as a practical and comprehensive introduction to depression, and its deep roots in trauma.
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber looks at the heterogeneous and complex phenomenon of... (more)
Passion, Shame, and the Freedom to Become: Seizing The Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis
This book examines how humans can overcome feelings of shame through self-acceptance and regain their innate passion and freedom to grow.
Peter Shabad examines in detail how self-shaming and... (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)
Disorganisation & Sex
Never does the patient seem more ill than when they try to order associations into a logical tale. Classical analysis sees this in terms of a repudiation of sexuality: an attempt to avoid speaking... (more)
Screening the Scars: The Cinematic (In)visibility of Social Trauma
Using the cultural medium of film to show how very differently social trauma is negotiated and narrated in different societies, a varied group of international experts offer a careful analysis of the... (more)
Absolute Freedom: Individuation and Individualization in Second-Late-Modern Societies
Within this book, the fields of analytical psychology and sociology combine to examine and explore current social theory and the concept that the author has termed ‘absolute freedom’.
This work... (more)
Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction
In this passionate volume, Sandra Buechler introduces Erich Fromm's groundbreaking contributions to psychoanalysis, sociology, philosophy, political action, and social criticism. Buechler explores... (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)
Understanding Human Life through Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Tragedy: Explorations of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus
Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens,... (more)
Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis
Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis reflects on contemporary views on pregnancy, while offering guidance on how to work with women and couples experiencing infertility as well as the... (more)
The “Here and Now” of French Psychoanalysis: Conversations with Contemporary Psychoanalysts
The “Here and Now” of French Psychoanalysis provides an overview of the living psychoanalytic landscape in France through the voice of experienced psychoanalysts who continue and transform Freud,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore, miss or sidestep? What factors, personal, social, political, inform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic... (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 "Neurosis and Psychosis" and "The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis": 100 Years Later
On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” explores these two key papers on the topics of psychosis and neurosis and their relationship to the unconscious... (more)
Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939: A Biographical Compendium
Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939 draws on a wide range of primary sources to present all the datable events that took place in Sigmund Freud’s life, shining new light on his day-to-day... (more)