Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution
An updated edition of the seminal book that explores why the interest in psychoanalysis in France exploded after 1968 and what it says about culture and therapy.
Among Western countries, France... (more)
New Maladies of the Soul
"These days, who still has a soul?" asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Drawing on her many years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, Kristeva... (more)
Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch
Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sexuality. How does one address this organically in... (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)
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)
The Unconscious as Space: From Freud to Lacan, and Beyond
The Unconscious as Space explores the experience of being and the practice of psychoanalysis by thinking of the unconscious in mathematical terms.
Anca Carrington introduces mathematical models... (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)
Bits of Psyche: Selected Seminars by Michael Eigen
This book includes material from Michael Eigen’s celebrated and long-running seminar series, to explore some of the classic and contemporary key concepts in psychoanalytic theory and... (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)
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)
Developmental Ruptures: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown and Defensive Solutions
This book questions the diagnostic categories applied to adolescents from a developmental viewpoint putting forth an alternative perspective for assessment that considers prognostic and risk... (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)
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker James Grotstein, A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often complex work of W. R. Bion.
This... (more)
Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text
Twenty-nine years since the first edition was released, Frank Summers has renewed his lucid and thorough clarification of the various object relations theories to demonstrate their evolution and... (more)
Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities
Following Freud’s rather cold conception of fathers and a relative neglect of their role in psychoanalytic theory is a challenge to continue more recent efforts to develop a psychoanalytically... (more)
Time in Practice: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Listening Differently
Time In Practice: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Listening Differently is an original exploration of diverse ways in which individuals ‘live’ time, consciously and unconsciously. Challenging the... (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: 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)
Increate Light
As with all Eric Rhode’s work, we are taken on a fast-moving journey where previous travellers have left few footprints. These are faint, and soon dissolve. Accompanying us are passions, intellectual... (more)
Besides Family: Extending the Orbit of Psychic Development
With contributions from Salman Akhtar, Patricia Boguski, Ann Eichen, April Fallon, Theodore Fallon, Jr., Rama Rao Gogineni, Mark Moore, Sonja Ware.
Collectively authored by psychoanalytic... (more)
Life Studies in Psychoanalysis: Faces of Love
Life Studies in Psychoanalysis consists of four psychoanalytic studies, each representing a patient’s course of treatment over several years.
These studies demonstrate how love, in an array of... (more)
Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis
Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the... (more)
A Dream That Interprets Itself
Sigmund Freud hired Otto Rank as his secretary and funded Rank’s PhD in literature at the University of Vienna. In 1910, at age 26, Rank published ‘A Dream That Interprets Itself’. Freud could not... (more)
W. R. Bion as Clinician: Steering Between Concept and Practice
Underpinned by rigorous close readings of his oeuvre, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the development, practice and evolution of Wilfred Bion’s clinical psychoanalytic work.
Starting... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma: Post-Traumatic Mental Functioning, the Zero Process, and the Construction of Reality
A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma presents a theory of the nature of trauma and post-traumatic mental functioning based on the concept of the ‘zero process’.
Joseph Fernando presents a... (more)