Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining terms and building bridges
This book provides a clear introduction to the main contemporary psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives. Psychoanalysis is often thought of as an obscure and outdated method, and yet, those familiar... (more)
The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi: His Historical and Contemporary Importance in Psychoanalysis
The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi provides a concise yet thorough overview of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi. It seeks to help make his thought and work better known, as a controversial... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting looks at the role stepparents can play in the psychic development of children. Stepparenting requires enormous... (more)
Psychoanalytic Method in Motion: Controversies and evolution in clinical theory and practice
Psychoanalytic Method in Motion identifies and examines varied controversies about how psychoanalysts believe treatment should best be conducted. Irrespective of their particular school of thought,... (more)
Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis
Clinical psychoanalysis serves as our best laboratory for exploring the riddle of what it is to be a person, and how a person is at once singularly unique while always a piece of the interpersonal... (more)
Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice
Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice provides contemporary theoretical and clinical links between Relational Psychoanalysis, attachment theory,... (more)
The Challenge of Being Human
Freud wrote that the greatest problem facing humanity is its destructive urge. There is no one factor that solves the issue. The Challenge of Being Human explores tendencies that make us up and... (more)
Freud - The Key Ideas: From psychoanalysis and sex to dreams, the unconscious and more
Reading the complete works of Sigmund Freud would take more time than most of us have to spare. Freud - the Key Ideas condenses all the information you need about the life and work of the great man... (more)
Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the Movies
Consisting of contributions from psychoanalysts and therapists, as well as authors in such fields as literature and cinema studies, Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients explores how therapy and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide
Building on the enormous popularity of her two previous texts on diagnosis and case formulation, this important work from Nancy McWilliams completes the trilogy by addressing in detail the art of... (more)
Psychoanalysis at the Limit: Epistemology, Mind, and the Question of Science
Psychoanalysis has long been charged as being a pseudoscience. This timely book explores and reexamines the nature of psychoanalysis within contemporary debates about science, epistemology,... (more)
Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis Through Philosophy
This book celebrates and philosophically critiques Freud's most important contribution to understanding humanity: that psychic reality is governed by the unconscious mind. The contributors focus on... (more)
The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper
The selected papers of one of the leading intellectual figures in psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper M.D., record his unique ability to reflect upon the process of change and help us understand not... (more)
Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery: The Genesis of Suffering and the Role of Psychoanalysis
This captivating book explores Antonino Ferro's conception of the way the mind works, his interpretation of the analytic understanding of psychopathology, his reconceptualization of the therapeutic... (more)
The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan
In The Book of Love and Pain, Juan-David Nasio offers the first exclusive treatment of psychic pain in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic literature. Using insights gained from more than three... (more)
Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-sex Couples and Families
What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families address this question by... (more)
Culture, Subject, Psyche: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
A collection of in-depth interviews and essays which update the prevailing conceptions of psychoanalysis within anthropology, exploring distinctive psychoanalytic contributions and ethnographic... (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)