Psychoanalysis Books
The Fantasy Principle: Psychoanalysis of the Imagination
The Fantasy Principle makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology'. It radically affirms the centrality of imagination and emphasizes the... (more)
Sexy Bodies: Strange Carnalities of Feminism
This text investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi-, transracial, and even hetero-. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also... (more)
The Transmission of Affect
The idea that one can "soak up" someone else's mood or sense the tension in a room is familiar - as in "negative energy". This ability to borrow or share states of mind is now pathologized, as the... (more)
Guilt: Revenge, Remorse and Responsibility After Freud
Guilt is an original, closely argued examination of the opposition between guilty man and tragic man. Starting from the scientific and speculative writings of Freud and the major pioneers of... (more)
Between Couch and Piano: Psychoanalysis, Music, Art and Neuroscience
Between Couch and Piano links well-established psychoanalytic ideas with historical and neurological theory to help us begin to understand from a psychoanalytic perspective some of the reasons behind... (more)
In Pursuit of Psychic Change: The Betty Joseph Workshop
The members of the Betty Joseph Workshop have provided major contributions to psychoanalytic thinking since the meeting's inception in 1962. This book is a celebration of Betty Joseph's work, and the... (more)
For and Against Psychoanalysis: Second Edition
For and Against Psychoanalysis provides an accessible introduction and critical guide to the current standing of psychoanalysis. It is essential reading for students of psychoanalysis, counselling,... (more)
The Danger of Change: The Kleinian Approach with Patients Who Experience Progress as Trauma
Confusing clinical standoffs, loyalty to self-destruction and abrupt terminations are challenging and under-examined problems for the modern psychoanalytic practitioner. "The Danger of Change" is a... (more)
The unconscious a conceptual analysis
This text distinguishes between the two uses of the Freudian term "unconscious": the descriptive, where Freud is seen as offering a non- causal description of psychological phenomena; and the... (more)
Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature
This text explains what madness is, showing that it can be understood in psychological terms, and that by studying it we can learn important insights about the normal mind. 'Bentall demystifies... (more)
Studies in Hysteria
The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time it is the most elusive. Freud's recognition that hysteria stemmed from... (more)
The Psychology of Love
This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality - that there is no sexuality... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting
Do political concerns belong in psychodynamic treatment? How do class and politics shape the unconscious? The effects of an increasingly polarized, insecure and threatening world mean that the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Knowledge
Psychoanalytic Knowledge presents cutting edge thinking on some fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis by important international scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It explores... (more)
Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst
To help patients with their affect intolerance, therapists need to tolerate, contain and manage their own feelings. This text shows how to work with more difficult patients in psychotherapy and... (more)
Working With Eating Disorders: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are increasingly prevalent in today's society and of great concern to a wide range of health-related professionals, including counsellors and... (more)
Harvesting Free Association
This book is about the fundamentals of free association. Working from a large amount of clinical material, it enables us to see how the problems of the symbolization process are created in the minds... (more)
On the Freud watch: public memoirs:
"On the Freud Watch: Public Memoirs" opens and closes with autobiographical pieces, but the book as a whole reflects an intensely personal account of how Roazen became known as a "controversial"... (more)
Confidentiality: Ethical Perspectives and Clinical Dilemmas
Linking general issues of privacy to the intimate details of psychotherapeutic encounter, this text should serve as a basic guide to a wide range of professionals, including lawyers, social... (more)
Real and Imaginary Fathers: Development, Transference, and Healing
In this work, Salman Akhtar looks at how many fathers unconsciously, and sometimes quite consciously, attempt to revise their own traumatized childhood by providing their children with possibilities... (more)
The Future of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy faces multiple challenges in the new millennium. How can it organize, teach and offer therapy in ways that are relevant to the diverse complex and social and cultural... (more)
Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia
A comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive... (more)
Violence or Dialogue? Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism
Our understanding of terrorism since the events of September 11th 2001 has usually been channelled through the two dimensional lens of religion and politics. This important new work contributes a... (more)
Pluralism and Unity? Methods of Research in Psychoanalysis
A major challenge for the future of psychoanalysis as a science and as a profession, both in theory and in practice, is the ongoing development of conceptual, clinical and empirical research. This... (more)
The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression
We are, Julia Kristeva writes, strangers to ourselves; and indeed much of contemporary theory, whether psychoanalytic, historical, social, or critical, describes the human condition as one of... (more)
Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to womens sexuality as a dark continent for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer's Henry Morton Stanley's use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While... (more)
Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May 1968 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concepts of rebellion and revolution. But is it still possible to build and nurture a... (more)
Coping and Complaining: Attachment and the Language of Dis-ease
Good clinical practice is impossible without an understanding of the ways in which patients present their complaints. Patients have their own styles of coping and of expressing their concerns, and... (more)