Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalytic Principles in Psychiatric Practice: A Remedy by Truth
In this approachable book, Mark Kinet offers a unique methodology for integrating psychoanalytic work in the psychiatric setting.
Acknowledging the systemic rupture between psychoanalysis and... (more)
Why Read Ogden?: The Importance of Thomas Ogden's Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Why Read Ogden? explores the importance of Thomas Ogden's work to contemporary psychoanalysis, both as an interpreter of classic psychoanalytic thinkers and as a new and original theorist and... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Feminine
A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Feminine sees Houari Maïdi dissect the concepts and characteristics of the feminine in both male and females, separating them from womanhood and femininity, and... (more)
Narcissism: A Contemporary Introduction
Narcissism: A Contemporary Introduction provides a historical overview of this key foundational concept within psychoanalytic thought.
Richard Wood offers a critical overview of the theoretical... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa
Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa presents a unique insight into psychoanalytic practice with urban populations in Eastern Africa.
Barbara Saegesser describes her psychoanalytic work in... (more)
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
Freud and psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our independence and our creative abilities. But in the contemporary "entertainment" culture, is rebellion still a viable option?... (more)
Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality: Six Perspectives on Turning-To Versus Turning-Away
This book focuses on different forms of turning towards versus turning away from speech across a range of experiences in clinical treatment and general life.
The chapters of this volume deal... (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)
Primary Process Impacts and Dreaming the Undreamable Object in the Work of Michael Eigen: Becoming the Welcoming Object
Primary Process Impacts and Dreaming the Undreamable Object in the Work of Michael Eigen examines Eigen’s rich phenomenological work on becoming a welcoming object.
The contributors to this... (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)
The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis
The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis is a compilation of Judy Kantrowitz’s previously published papers on the patient-analyst "match" and its effect on... (more)
A Life of One's Own
How often do we really ask ourselves, “What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?” In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner, a renowned British psychoanalyst, artist and autobiographer... (more)
The Life-Death Instinct: Feeling Through Creative-Clinical Moments
Throughout this enlightening collection, Neil Maizels considers the helical tandem between the Life Instinct and the Death drive in the light of canonical literary figures like Thomas Hardy, Patricia... (more)
Body Words and the Analyst's Use of Self: Transforming the Unspeakable in Clinical Process
In this book, it becomes impossible to stand apart from the analytic field as abstract concepts, such as dissociation, intersubjectivity, and unconscious communication, as well as newly coined ones,... (more)
Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance
Each life story is unique, yet each also entwines with other stories, sharing recurring themes linked to issues of gender, Jewishness, women's education, politics, and migration.
The book's... (more)
Psychoanalytic Studies of Change: An Integrative Perspective
Psychoanalytic Studies of Change presents recent studies of the process and outcome of psychoanalytic therapy with an integrative perspective.
A recurrent challenge in the discussion of... (more)
Sigmund Freud and His Patient Margarethe Csonka: A Case of Homosexuality in a Woman in Modern Vienna
This book provides a historical analysis of one of Sigmund Freud’s least-studied cases, published in 1920 as The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman.
Scholars of sexuality often... (more)
Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients: Watching Experience at Work
Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients is a collection of key case studies that provides a rich resource of information and inspiration for clinicians working psychoanalytically... (more)
Michael Balint and His World: The Budapest Years
This fascinating collection explores the life of renowned psychoanalyst Michael Balint in his native Budapest. With a Balint revival in mind, Michael Balint and His World: The Budapest Years brings... (more)
Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach
Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression is a neuropsychoanalytic and scientific exploration of aggression and argues for its central role in psychopathology and the genesis of individual symptoms,... (more)
Recognising, Understanding and Treating Nameless States: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
In this captivating volume, Bernd Nissen considers the multiplicity of nameless states, and the impact of their discovery on psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The nameless is considered... (more)
Binocular Vision: An Inquiry into Psychoanalytic Techniques and Field Theory
Binocular Vision in Psychoanalysis explains field theory from a Bionian perspective, while exploring the relationship between art and psychoanalysis.
Elena Molinari starts from Bion’s double... (more)
Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis has not had a comfortable history in relation to "race" and racism, despite its origins in the Jewish lives of Freud and its other first-generation progenitors and the insistent... (more)
The Unconscious: A Contemporary Introduction
In The Unconscious: A Contemporary Introduction, Joseph Newirth presents a critical and comparative analysis of the unconscious and its evolution from a positivist to a postmodern frame of... (more)
Melanie Klein's Narrative of an Adult Analysis
Melanie Klein’s Narrative of an Adult Analysis offers the first detailed account of Melanie Klein’s work with an adult patient, Mr B, which spanned the years 1934 to 1949.
This volume includes... (more)
Melanie Klein: A Contemporary Introduction
This important book provides a concise introduction to Melanie Klein and the key concepts and theories she founded, outlining their application to psychoanalytic technique, and explaining how her... (more)
How the Mind Works: Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
There is a great deal of confusion about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, even among practitioners of these methods. One reason is the sheer volume of psychoanalytic psychotherapies... (more)
Herbert Rosenfeld: A Contemporary Introduction
This bold and insightful book is the first to present the full work of highly influential British analyst, Herbert Rosenfeld.
This Contemporary Introduction covers all of Rosenfeld’s significant... (more)
The Unconscious Body Image
The Unconscious Body Image espouses a completely original view of the links between physical and psychic development, providing fresh insight into our understanding of psychosomatic symptoms and... (more)