Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society
Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society explores the connections between psychoanalysis and law, arguing that these are required not only for conceptual or theoretical needs in both fields, but also for the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership considers how these factors can be understood, nurtured, or thwarted and the subsequent impact on women's... (more)
Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer
Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer offers a comprehensive overview of the theory of Intersubjective Self Psychology and its clinical applications. Readers will gain an in depth understanding... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Relational Analysis Interminable
Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis explores how relational analysts think about and pursue long-term therapeutic relationships in their practices. Many therapists... (more)
The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, Volume One: Revelation and Apocalypse
The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, Volume One: Revelation and Apocalypse is the first volume, fully annotated, of a major, previously unpublished, two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905-1960). It was... (more)
Victor Frankenstein, the Monster and the Shadows of Technology: The Frankenstein Prophecies
In Victor Frankenstein, the Monster and the Shadows of Technology: The Frankenstein Prophecies, Romanyshyn asks eight questions that uncover how Mary Shelley's classic work Frankenstein haunts our... (more)
Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst
In Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst, Barnaby B. Barratt illuminates a new perspective on what it means to open our awareness to the depths of psychic life and restores the... (more)
Concerning the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse
In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the... (more)
Privacy: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
In this, the latest in a series of books examining emotional states and psychological life, Salman Akhtar and Aisha Abbasi critically discuss a concept that remains, appropriately perhaps, elusive... (more)
Permanent Disquiet: Psychoanalysis and the Transitional Subject
Permanent Disquiet: Psychoanalysis and the Transitional Subject comprises the first English language translation of some of Michel Emile de M'Uzan's key writings, alongside an invaluable glossary by... (more)
Rediscovering Pierre Janet: Trauma, Dissociation, and a New Context for Psychoanalysis
Rediscovering Pierre Janet explores the legacy left by the pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist (1859-1947), from the relationship of between Janet and Freud, to the... (more)
Misogyny, Projective Identification, and Mentalization: Psychoanalytic, Social, and Institutional Manifestations
Misogyny, Projective Identification, and Mentalization looks at how the psychoanalytic concepts of projective identification and mentalization may explain the construction of society and how they... (more)
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis: Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis proposes a major revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Freud believed that psychosis is the consequence of... (more)
Formulated Experiences: Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm
In Formulated Experiences, Peter L. Rudnytsky continues his quest for a re-vision of psychoanalysis by coupling his revival of the unjustly neglected figure of Erich Fromm with his latest... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography
Psychoanalysis is a strange and mysterious practice. In his new book, Ian Parker offers insights into his own experiences, first as trainee then as analyst, the common assumptions about... (more)
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoses: Current Developments in Theory and Practice
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoses brings together a distinguished international set of contributors, offering a range of views and approaches, to explore the latest thinking in the psychoanalytic... (more)
An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis is a book of transpositions, collecting together the author's clinical vignettes, enigmatic objects, stray thoughts, projects, images, notes from readings,... (more)
The Soul of Narcissism
The notion of narcissism introduced by Sigmund Freud has become a victim of its own success. On the one hand, with its emphasis on self-love and new forms of well-being, it can take the form of a... (more)
The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis
The Emergence of Analytic Oneness is a profound and penetrating exploration of a fundamental dimension of analytic presence and patient-analyst interconnectedness that offers new possibilities for... (more)
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressing Life's Challenges in Clinical Practice
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living examines how psychoanalysts can draw on their training, reading, and clinical experience to help their patients address some of the recurrent... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Knowing and Being Known
The importance of knowing and being known is at the heart of the human experience and has always been the core of the psychoanalytic enterprise. Freud named his central Oedipal construct after... (more)
Homosexuality Transsexuality Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism
Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish... (more)
Freudian Dictionary: A Comprehensive Guide to Freudian Concepts
The Freudian Dictionary provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to essential Freudian terms and concepts. Organized conceptually, the book is grounded in detailed and meticulous readings, and... (more)
Creative States of Mind: Psychoanalysis and the Artist's Process
What is it like to be an artist? Drawing on interviews with professional artists, this book takes the reader inside the creative process. The author, an artist and a psychotherapist, uses... (more)
Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive: In Theory Clinical Practice and Culture
Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive provides a sustained discussion of the death drive from the perspective of different psychoanalytic traditions. Ever since Freud introduced the... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Buddhist Reflections on Gentleness: Sensitivity Fear and the Drive Towards Truth
Inspired by Buddhist teachings and psychoanalytic thought, this book explores gentleness as a way of being and a developmental achievement. It offers reflections on the unique position of "gentle... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Dreams: Bion, the Field and the Viscera of the Mind
Psychoanalysis and Dreams explores some of the cornerstones of Antonino Ferro's theoretical model but also attempts to extend the dreamlike boundaries of the model. Based on Bion's theory of alpha... (more)
Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis
Sabina Spielrein stands as both an important and tragic figure-misunderstood or underestimated by her fellow analysts (including Jung and Freud) and often erased in the annals of psychoanalytic... (more)
Trauma and Primitive Mental States
Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective offers a clinically based framework through which adult survivors of early childhood trauma can re-engage with painful past events... (more)