Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma
Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma proposes that asexuality is a libidinally founded desire for no sexual desire, a concept not included in psychoanalytic... (more)
The Covid Trail: Psychodynamic Explorations
The idea of The Covid Trail developed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using the language of psychoanalysis and system psychodynamic thinking, it seeks to find a way to think about and... (more)
Group Analysis throughout the Life Cycle: Foulkes Revisited from a Group Attachment and Developmental Perspective
Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete present a captivating journey through human development, group lives and group attachment from infancy all the way into old age. Co-constructed with meticulous... (more)
The Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma in Psychoanalysis: Fear of Madness
This collection addresses the theory of claustro-agoraphobic anxieties and schizoid phenomena. It provides psychoanalytic case studies of the transference and counter-transference dynamic inherent in... (more)
The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task: Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families
The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early... (more)
Mutual Impact: At the Crossroads of Psychoanalysis and Literature
What can psychoanalysis contribute to the interpretation and understanding of cultural products, in particular, literary works? What, on the other hand, can novels and plays offer to widen the... (more)
Contemporary Object Relations in Los Angeles: Building on the Work of the London Kleinians
In 1984 the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) was established as a direct outcome of the work of Albert Mason, Wilfred Bion, and the visiting analysts who influenced the thinking and practice... (more)
Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen: Oblivion and Wisdom, Madness and Music
Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen is an accessible and engaging introduction to this ground-breaking psychoanalytic sage. Through exploration of Eigen’s two key texts, The Psychotic Core and... (more)
Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity
This book, first published in the year of the author’s death, expresses Mitchell’s vision for the theory of relational psychoanalysis, and provides his most-developed expression of its foundations.... (more)
Michael Eigen: A Contemporary Introduction
This insightful book critically reviews and presents an accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the most celebrated modern psychoanalysts, Michael Eigen.
With work spanning over... (more)
The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, 1921-1939: Psychoanalysis and Politics in the Interwar Years
Freud wrote 76 letters to the Dutch psychoanalyst Jeanne Lampl-de Groot between 1921 and 1939. These letters are personable, lively, and compassionate and convey his respect and caring for Jeanne,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory: An Introduction
Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory introduces the key concepts, figures and movements of both psychoanalytic theory and the history of literary criticism and theory, engaging with Freud, Zizek,... (more)