Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
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)
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)
Sigmund Freud
Part of the "Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy" series, this text considers the life, contributions and influence of Sigmund Freud. Freud's influence on psychodynamic counselling is... (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)
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)
