Psychoanalysis Books
Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory and research into our understanding of the nature of change in child... (more)
Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies: In Transition
Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies introduces new thinking on non-conforming gender representation, addressing transsexuality as a subjective experience that highlights... (more)
Conundrums and Predicaments in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: The Clinical Moments Project
From time to time therapists find themselves in a bind-faced with a challenging situation, unsure how to proceed. Such a conundrum leaves the therapist on edge, concerned that the success of... (more)
Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind
Through a series of radical and innovative chapters, Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition of applied psychoanalysis that has long dominated... (more)
Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: The Work of Irma Brenman Pick
Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter brings together Irma Brenman Pick's original contributions to psychoanalytic technique. Working within the Kleinian tradition, she produces vivid clinical... (more)
Metapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival: Integration of Traumatic Helplessness in Psychoanalysis
Metapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival explores the integration of traumatic helplessness in the course of psychoanalytic treatment. Based on the author's many years of experience of... (more)
From Dualism to Oneness in Psychoanalysis: A Zen Perspective on the Mind-Body Question
From Dualism to Oneness in Psychoanalysis: A Zen Perspective on the Mind-Body Question focuses on the shift in psychoanalytic thought, from a view of mind-body dualism to a contemporary non-dualistic... (more)
Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques
In Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, alongside its companion piece Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Morris N. Eagle asks: of the core concepts and formulations of psychoanalytic... (more)
Race in Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind
Race in Psychoanalysis analyzes the often-unrecognized racism in psychoanalysis by examining how the colonialist discourse of late nineteenth-century anthropology made its way into Freud's... (more)
Beginning Analysis: On the Processes of Initiating Psychoanalysis
How does a psychoanalysis begin? What goes on when analyst and prospective analysand meet for the first time, and what processes are activated to make the project for an analysis possible? This... (more)
British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition
British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition is a new and extended edition of The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition, which explored the successes... (more)
Emotions of Menace and Enchantment: Disgust, Horror, Awe, and Fascination
Emotions of Menace and Enchantment examines four pivotal human emotions. It explores what defines these emotions, how they interact, and how they impact the experience of self-boundary. All four... (more)
Further Developments in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s: Evolving Interest in the Analyst's Subjectivity
Further Developments in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s is the second collection of selected classic articles of the modern era by psychoanalysts identified with the interpersonal... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Passion: Meanings and Manifestations in the Clinical Setting and Beyond
Passion! The word brims with and exudes power, movement, intensity, vitality, desire, and fulfillment. Its multifaceted meanings include eroticism, rage, sex, suffering, drive, commitment,... (more)
Psychoanalytic Case Studies from an Interpersonal-Relational Perspective
Psychoanalytic Case Studies from an Interpersonal-Relational Perspective contains reports of long-term treatments, including many dialogues and dreams, with commentaries following each one. Drawing... (more)
Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: The Iridescent Thing
Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy explores how and why Freud's late work on fetishism led to the beginnings of a re-formulation of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Freud himself,... (more)
Hamlet on the Couch: What Shakespeare Taught Freud
Hamlet on the Couch weaves a close reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet with a large variety of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychological theory, looking at the interplay of ideas between the two. ... (more)
Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice
In Dramatic Dialogue, Atlas and Aron develop the metaphors of drama and theatre to introduce a new way of thinking about therapeutic action and therapeutic traction. This model invites the patient's... (more)
Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis
Sublime Subjects explores two fundamental questions: What is the start of humanity? When and how does a newborn child become a subject? These are relevant to psychoanalysis not only theoretically,... (more)
Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques
In Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, alongside its companion piece Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, Morris N. Eagle asks: of the core concepts and formulations of psychoanalytic... (more)
Elizabeth Severn: The 'Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis
Elizabeth Severn: The `Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis chronicles the life and work of Elizabeth Severn, both as one of the most controversial analysands in the history of psychoanalysis, and as a... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World: On The Body
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World: On the Body examines the importance of the body in everyday psychoanalytic practice and beyond. Written by world leading clinicians and... (more)
Memories and Monsters: Psychology, Trauma and Narrative
Memories and Monsters explores the nature of the monstrous or uncanny, and the way psychological trauma relates to memory and narration. This interdisciplinary book works on the borderland between... (more)
Old and Dirty Gods: Religion, Antisemitism, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis
Freud's collection of antiquities-his old and dirty gods-stood as silent witnesses to the early analysts' paradoxical fascination and hostility toward religion. Pamela Cooper-White argues that... (more)
Arrogance: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Arrogance as a specific constellation of affect, fantasy, and behavior has received little attention in psychoanalysis. This is striking in light of the enormous amount of literature accumulated on... (more)
Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel
What does one do when a dangerous paedophile, six feet and seven inches in height, threatens to kill you? How does one manage when a brain-damaged, psychotic patient spits on the office floor two... (more)
The Psychology of Political Extremism: What Sigmund Freud would have thought about Islamic State
Islamic State is primarily seen through a political lens; the psychological motivation of such groups is poorly understood. But we need to ask the question; do the inner disquiets of Islam make more... (more)
Freud's Russia: National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis
Freud's lifelong involvement with the Russian national character and culture is examined in James Rice's imaginative combination of history, literary analysis, and psychoanalysis. Freud's Russia... (more)
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in Cognitive Multi-Agent Systems
Human cognitive processes and defense mechanisms, as described in psychoanalysis, bring about new notions and paradigms for artificial intelligence systems. One key reason is that the human cognitive... (more)
Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis: Its Function and Structure in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory
Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis explores the idea of `the frame' at a time when this concept is undergoing both systematic revival and widespread transformation. It has always been... (more)