Psychoanalysis Books
The Uncanny
Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The major pieces collected here explore the vivid but seemingly trivial childhood memories that often screen far more... (more)
An Outline of Psychoanalysis
New Introductory Lectures (1932) and An Outline of Psychoanalysis (1938).
No discovery has done more to shape modernity than Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the part it plays in determining... (more)
Traumatic Experience in the Unconscious Life of Groups: The Fourth Basic Assumption: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M
With full respect for the constraints of the social unconscious, Earl Hopper applies his theory of Incohesion to the treatment of difficult patients in group analysis. The personification of... (more)
Containing the Uncontainable: Alcohol Misuse and the Personal Choice Community Programme
One of the first books on abstinence-based treatment to integrate psychoanalytic and cognitive/behavioural models structurally, Containing the Uncontainable is a practical account of establishing and... (more)
Divine Therapy: Love, Mysticism and Psychoanalysis
Many debate whether religion is good for our health. Starting with this question, Janet Sayers provides a fascinating account of today's psychotherapy. Divine Therapy is told through love stories.... (more)
The Penguin Freud Reader
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case... (more)
Apprehending the Inaccessible: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Existential Phenomenology
Throughout history, philosophers have relentlessly pursued what may be called "inaccessible domains." This book explores how the traditions of existential phenomenology and Eastern philosophy, in... (more)
Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis
What is a dream? Dreams are universal, but their perceived significance and conceptual framework change over time. This book provides new perspectives on the history of dreams and dream... (more)
Teaching Freud
The 14 contributors to this volume, recognised scholars of religion and psychoanalysis, describe how they address Freud's contested legacy: "they teach the debates". They describe their courses on... (more)
Relational Perspectives on the Body
Contemporary relational theorists synthesize a variety of theoretical trends and influences - including feminism and postmodernism - in order to provide innovative relational models of psyche-soma... (more)
The Uncanny: an Introduction
This study is of the uncanny; an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies,... (more)
Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis
The intersubjective perspective regards all psychological processes as emanating from personal interrelatedness. First presented by Robert D. Stolorow in his classic work Faces in a Cloud (1978), it... (more)
Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck
In a stunning fusion of literary criticism and intellectual history, Peter L. Rudnytsky explores the dialectical interplay between literature and psychoanalysis by reading key psychoanalytic texts in... (more)
Why Psychoanalysis?
Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic of distress being addressed only by an increasing reliance on prescription drugs. (more)
Image Formation and Psychotherapy
A practical introduction to understanding the human capacity for image making. This work also provides guidance for effectively utilising clinical knowledge in the therapeutic situation. (more)
Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital
Adamson aims in this text to put life back into contemporary politics, ethics and aesthetics, to reveal how science and capitalism are manifestations of a broader tendency that is transforming life... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason
How did the language of psychoanalysis become the dominant idiom in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions? Ernest Gellner offers a forceful and complex answer... (more)
The Language of Emotions: Developmental, Psychopathology, and Technique
This book is about affect-its origins, development and uses-and how it is viewed in a clinical setting. The authors track and further develop the recent major changes in the understanding of affect.... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Focus
This much-needed introduction to the major criticisms of psychoanalysis as a theory and as a practice forms part of the 'Counselling and psychotherapy in focus' series and encourages psychoanalysts,... (more)
Integrating Body Self and Psychological Self
David W. Krueger illustrates a novel synthesis of fundamental psychodynamic principles with evolving advances in developmental, self, neuropsychological, and attachment theories. (more)
Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-Type Murder: Murdering Minds
What turns an apparently 'normal' individual into a killer?
The Last Resistance: Concept of Science as Defense against Psychoanaly
Radical and uncompromising, The Last Resistance is a penetrating rediscovery of the essential nature of psychoanalysis. Looking behind the masks of reason adopted by Freuds chief critics, Bowman... (more)
Psychic Trauma: Dynamics, Symptoms, and Treatment
This book offers a clinical study of psychic trauma and provides a framework through which to understand the long term effects of overwhelming life experiences. Ira Brenner draws on two different... (more)
Freud and Faith: Living in the Tension
Bingaman shows how Freuds critique of religion can enrich and strengthen, rather than destroy, the faith of the believer. What emerges from the authors argument is a creative method for living within... (more)
Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology
Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?
So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected... (more)