Psychoanalysis Books
Learning from the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Approaches in Educational Psychology
Each of us has an inner world, influenced by experience, environment and the people and places we encounter. As individuals engaged with children and those around them, educational psychologists... (more)
Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession
In this first-of-kind book, senior psychoanalysts from around the world offer personal reflections on their own training, what it was like to become a psychoanalyst, and what they would like most to... (more)
Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis: Cultural, Clinical, and Research Perspectives
This book is the first comprehensive treatment in recent decades of silence and silencing in psychoanalysis from clinical and research perspectives, as well as in philosophy, theology, linguistics,... (more)
Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings
This book demonstrates the use of psychoanalytic thinking in front-line mental health settings and aims to make an approach to working with emotional and mental disturbance available to a wide range... (more)
Finding the Piggle: Reconsidering D. W. Winnicott's Most Famous Child Case
The Piggle is one of the most famous and beloved child cases in the history of psychoanalysis. A two-year-old girl suffering from terrible nightmares, depression, and self-harming behaviours, the... (more)
Psychoanalysis from the Inside Out: Developing and Sustaining an Analytic Identity and Practice
In the face of considerable scepticism over the function and effectiveness of psychoanalysis, Lena Ehrlich demonstrates how analysis is unique in its potential to transform patients at an emotionally... (more)
Body Psychotherapy for the 21st Century
Body psychotherapy currently attracts more interest than ever before and is taking up an important role in the general psychotherapy field, bringing awareness of embodiment into what has been a... (more)
Essential Readings from the Melanie Klein Archives: Original Papers and Critical Reflections
Essential Readings from the Melanie Klein Archives: Original Papers and Critical Reflections brings together a selection of previously unpublished material by Melanie Klein, one of the key architects... (more)
Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious
This book addresses a range of fundamental questions around the nature of psychoanalysis. It distinguishes how psychoanalysis differs from other forms of therapy, explores the ways in which insights... (more)
A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis
The science of Psychoanalysis is now more than a century old. During this period, it has been established as the instrument offering the most profound understanding of the human mind, and as the most... (more)
Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
One hundred (and one) tales to mark Salman Akhtar’s one hundredth book! Divided into eight informative parts – Dr Akhtar’s journey to psychoanalysis; the lessons he learned from his teachers,... (more)
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear explores the importance of listening, being able to speak, and those who are silenced, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular,... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples: Clinical Perspectives on Suffering
Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples rethinks the ways in which conflicts present today in psychoanalytic consulting rooms and the nature of suffering in family, couple, and sibling... (more)
The Handbook of Psychoanalytic Holocaust Studies: International Perspectives
This book is a unique compilation of essays about the genocidal persecution fuelling the Nazi regime in World War II. Written by world-renowned experts in the field, it confronts a vitally important... (more)
The Unconscious: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications
Weaving together state-of-the-art research, theory, and clinical insights, this book provides a new understanding of the unconscious and its centrality in human functioning. The authors review... (more)
Psychoanalysts, Psychologists and Psychiatrists Discuss Psychopathy and Human Evil
Evil - along with its incarnation in human form, the psychopath - remains underexamined in the psychological and psychoanalytic literature. Given current societal issues ranging from increasingly... (more)
Loss: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
The experience of loss is ubiquitous in human life, but its nature and impact have great variations. When loss is phase-specific, expected, and accompanied by compensatory supplies, it can lead to... (more)
Innovations in Psychoanalysis: Originality, Development, Progress
From its very inception, psychoanalysis has been a discipline encompassing two contradictory tendencies. This dualistic tendency - tradition alongside disenchantment and the will to improve knowledge... (more)
Eros Crucified: Death, Desire, and the Divine in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Religion
Weaving together psychoanalytical, philosophical, and theological thought from art and literature, this work provides a fresh perspective on how humans can make sense of suffering and finitude and... (more)
Freud's Early Psychoanalysis, Witch Trials and the Inquisitorial Method: The Harsh Therapy
In Freud's Early Psychoanalysis, Witch Trials and the Inquisitorial Method: The Harsh Therapy, Kathleen Duffy asks why Freud compared his 'hysterical' patients to the accused women in the witch... (more)
The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Listening for the Subtext
The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Listening for the Subtext outlines the core concepts that frame the reciprocal encounter between psychoanalytic therapist and patient, taking the... (more)
Groundwork for a Transpersonal Psychoanalysis: Spirituality, Relationship, and Participation
This book explores how a deeper engagement with the theme of spirituality can challenge and stimulate contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. Bringing relational psychoanalysis into conversation with... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let the Conversation Begin
In Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let the Conversation Begin, Paul Marcus uniquely draws on psychoanalysis and social psychology to examine what affects the ethical... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind: I Woke Up Dead
In this in-depth and unique collaboration between a patient and his psychoanalyst, Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind: I Woke Up Dead examines the... (more)
Eroticism: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
With contributions from distinguished scholars and clinicians who view human erotic desire from modern developmental, relational, societal, and cross-cultural perspectives, Eroticism: Developmental,... (more)
Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle: Clinical Perspectives
The impact of trauma can be both destructive and transformative. This important new book presents not only a range of theoretical frameworks through which different trauma can be understood, from the... (more)
Sexuality, Excess, and Representation: A Psychoanalytic Clinical and Theoretical Perspective
Sexuality, Excess, and Representation develops a psychoanalytic understanding of psychic bisexuality and how it can be understood theoretically and in clinical practice. Rosine Perelberg articulates... (more)
In the Shadow of Freud's Couch: Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices
In the Shadow of Freud's Couch: Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices uses text and images to form a complex portrait of psychoanalysis today. It is the culmination of the authors 15-year... (more)
Psychoanalysis with Wilfred R. Bion: Contemporary Approaches, Actuality and The Future of Psychoanalytic Practice
Psychoanalysis with Wilfred R. Bion is the product of Francois Levy's efforts over a period of twenty years to represent clearly the classical elements and the innovatory propositions of the thought... (more)
Dialogues with Michael Eigen: Psyche Singing
Dialogues with Michael Eigen spans 20 years of diverse interviews and interactions with the acclaimed psychologist Michael Eigen, including interlocutors from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Argentina,... (more)