Psychoanalysis Books
The Deconstruction of Narcissism and the Function of the Object: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
The Deconstruction of Narcissism and the Function of the Object addresses the topic of narcissistic suffering and presents an innovative take on its psychoanalytic treatment through the... (more)
Living and Containing Psychoanalysis in Institutions: Psychoanalysts Working Together
Encompassing diverse perspectives on the psychoanalyst as individual, social being, and member of psychoanalytic institutions, this book provides practical and informed answers to the question of how... (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)
Freud's Arguments for the Oedipus Complex: A Philosophy of Science Analysis of the Case of Little Hans
In this close reading of Freudian theory, Jerome C. Wakefield reconstructs Freud’s argument for the Oedipal theory of the psychoneuroses, placing the case of Little Hans into a philosophy-of-science... (more)
What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis
What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis explores the impact Nazism had on the evolution of psychoanalysis and tackles the enigma of the transformation of individual hate into mass psychosis and of the... (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)
Freud/Lynch: Behind the Curtain
The films of David Lynch are sometimes said to be unintelligible. They confront us with strange dreamscapes populated with bizarre characters, obscure symbols and an infuriating lack of narrative... (more)
Playing and Vitality in Psychoanalysis
Building on their long-lasting scientific partnership, Civitarese and Ferro offer an array of thought-provoking writings bolstered by extensive clinical material, attesting to their shared... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance: Lacanian Perspectives
This innovative text addresses the lack of literature regarding intersectional approaches to psychoanalysis, underscoring the importance of thinking through race, class, and gender within... (more)
The Omnipotent State of Mind: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This book presents an examination and exploration of the concept of omnipotence, its qualities and expression as a psychic state, its origins in the psyche and its appearance in the psychoanalytic... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ecology: The Unconscious and the Environment
This book presents the psychoanalyst with the question of how our enormously modified environmental conditions determine our subjective mental changes and vice versa. The gravity of the environmental... (more)
Christopher Bollas: A Contemporary Introduction
This book provides a clear and accessible overview of the seminal clinical thinking of Christopher Bollas.
Placing Bollas's writings besides those of analysts including Milner, Bion, Winnicott,... (more)
Vital Flows between the Self and Non-Self: The Interpsychic
Vital Flows explores the concept of the Interpsychic, or that which exists in our unconscious or preconscious inter- and intra-human exchanges, and demonstrates its significance for understanding... (more)
Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents
Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Adolescents and Children is a groundbreaking collection of chapters by an international group of analytic authors. The book addresses the... (more)
Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care
Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care describes the many ways that analysts interact with the medical world and make meaningful contributions to the care of a variety of patients.
Clinicians... (more)
The Jouissance Principle: Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious
This book examines the concept of jouissance, a Lacanian term that refers to enjoyment experienced in different ways, from the enjoyment taken in an action that is ethically disapproved to the hidden... (more)
The Authority of Tenderness: Dignity and the True Self in Psychoanalysis
This insightful and beautifully written work explores non-linear processes of recovery of the loss of Self. The inherent healing power of hard-earned, wholehearted self-acceptance is conceived... (more)
Projective Identification: A Contemporary Introduction
This clear and thoughtful book by Robert Waska provides an accessible introduction to Projective Identification and the role it plays in internal and external life.
Waska explores how... (more)
Lost to Desire: The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive
This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of operatoire continues to inform the... (more)
Loss, Grief and Transformation: The Therapist's Personal Experience in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
This book is a timely and relevant book for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who process loss both in their own lives and in the lives of their patients, offering perspectives from a range of... (more)
Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice: Second Edition
What is psychoanalysis? Is it relevant to today's mental health crisis? How can psychoanalysis help people suffering from psychological distress and illness? This vital new book examines how... (more)
Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud
‘When my father was a little boy in Vienna, he told Anna Freud this dream: He is walking on the rim of the white gravel path that leads around the oval pond in the upper part of the Belvedere... (more)
Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond
This book explores the role of bodily phenomena in mental life and in the psychoanalytic encounter, encouraging further dialog within psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the humanities, and contributing... (more)
Autonomy, Relatedness and Oedipus: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Autonomy, Relatedness, and Oedipus is an innovative and inspiring work from Thijs de Wolf that takes a critical look at the field of psychoanalysis. He takes the view that psychoanalysis is about... (more)
Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear
This book looks at the trauma suffered by those in relationships with narcissists, covering topics such as surviving a cult, dysfunctional families, political dysfunction, and imbalances of power in... (more)
Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu and the Nazis
In this compelling book, the first in the new Freud Museum London series, Professor Brett Kahr describes how Sigmund Freud endured innumerable emotional pandemics during his eighty-three years of... (more)
Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood
Offering a uniquely psychoanalytic developmental perspective on male gender identity and the sense of maleness, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of masculinity in childhood... (more)
On Wanting to Change
From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.
We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves,... (more)