Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
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)
The Origin of the Subject in Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Foundations of Lacanian Theory and Clinic
This highly original work uses the Big Bang theory as a conceptual tool to address the question of the origin of the subject in psychoanalysis.
The Origin of the Subject in Psychoanalysis... (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)
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)
The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis
The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis.
The papers included in this book span the course of... (more)
Clinical Storytelling, Art and the Problems of Being: The Analyst's Necessary Vertigo
In a series of overlapping clinical essays, sometimes highly personal, sometimes bristling with theory, sometimes employing experimental writing, Jade McGleughlin upends the ways we tell a... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.
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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)
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)
Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families
This book updates the Oedipus Complex for a contemporary audience in the light of social and cultural changes and explores its implications for psychoanalytic treatment and our understanding of queer... (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)
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)