Psychoanalysis Books
Freud: An Intellectual Biography
The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into... (more)
The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis: Conflicts Dilemmas and the Future of the Profession
The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis is a wide-ranging exploration and examination of the organizational conflicts and dilemmas that have troubled psychoanalysis since its inception. Kenneth... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Testimony: Unwanted Memories of Social Trauma
Psychoanalytic work with socially traumatised patients is an increasingly popular vocation, but remains extremely demanding and little covered in the literature. In Psychoanalysis and Holocaust... (more)
The Discovery of the Self: A Study in Psychological Cure
Elizabeth Severn, known as R.N. in Sandor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary, was Ferenczi's analysand for eight years, the patient with whom he conducted his controversial experiment in mutual analysis, and... (more)
The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis, 1960s-1990s: Rethinking Transference and Countertransference
North American psychoanalysis has long been deeply influenced and substantially changed by clinical and theoretical perspectives first introduced by interpersonal psychoanalysis. Yet even today,... (more)
Nonlinear Psychoanalysis: Notes from Forty Years of Chaos and Complexity Theory
Nonlinear concepts from chaos theory, complexity studies, and fractal geometry have transformed the way we think about the mind. Nonlinear Psychoanalysis shows how nonlinear dynamics can be... (more)
What Would Freud Do?: How the Greatest Psychotherapists Would Solve Your Everyday Problems
Ever wondered what Wilfred Bion would have to say about your horrible boss's behaviour? Or how Carl Jung would feel about your mid-life crisis red Ferrari? Ever wondered if Eric Berne might have the... (more)
How to Think Like Sigmund Freud
The work of Sigmund Freud, one of the most important thinkers of the past two hundred years, redefined the fields of neurology and psychotherapy and the way we view the human mind. Most strands of... (more)
The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, the Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life
Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society: The Future of an Illusion andCivilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely... (more)
Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis: A Model for Theory and Practice
In this book, Kirshner explains and illustrates the concept of intersubjectivity and its application to psychoanalysis. By drawing on findings from neuroscience, infant research, cognitive... (more)
Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Mortal Gifts
Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter considers psychoanalysis from a fresh perspective-the therapist's mortality, in at least two senses of the word: the therapist can die, and the... (more)
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Reacting to Unexpected Developments
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis looks at the intersection of two types of psychoanalysis that challenge the classic model; child analysis, and field theory.
Children... (more)
A Beholder's Share: Essays on Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Imagination
A Beholder's Share is a comprehensive guide to Dodi Goldman's unique psychoanalytic sensibility. At heart, this book demonstrates how a sense of reality is evoked in the unpredictable space between... (more)
Beyond Doer and Done to: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third
Beyond Doer and Done to integrates new clinical developments in relational analysis while reformulating crucial themes such as the development of intersubjectivity, the splitting of gender... (more)
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must... (more)
A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice
Often overlooked because he is so easy to mock, ridicule, or just plain misunderstand, Freud introduced many techniques for clinical practice that are still widely employed today. Yet surprisingly,... (more)
Regret: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Missed opportunities, unfulfilled dreams, and broken promises are the stuff of everyday life and so is regret, the emotion that accompanies them. Unlike remorse which is consequent upon the... (more)
Systematic Desensitisation for Panic and Phobia: An Introduction for Health Professionals
Panic disorder and phobia are difficulties that are commonly encountered in our consulting rooms. There is an ongoing debate concerning the lack of provision within the NHS to help those with mental... (more)
Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting: Realisational Perspectives
Drawing from original source material, contemporary scholarship, and Wilfred Bion's psychoanalytic writings, Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting introduces the Zen notion of... (more)
Understanding Classical Psychoanalysis: Freudian Concepts in Contemporary Practice
Understanding Classical Psychoanalysis gives a clear overview of the key tenets of classical Freudian psychoanalysis, and offers a guide to how these might be best understood and applied to... (more)
Positive Psychoanalysis: Meaning, Aesthetics and Subjective Well-Being
Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have, in one way or another, focused on the amelioration of the negative. This has only done half the job; the other half being to actively bring positive experience... (more)
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Mind, Body, and the Question of Time
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis sets out to give a scientific consistency to the question of time and find out how time determines brain functioning. Neurological investigations into dreams... (more)
Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Mind, World, and Self
Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis is a complete revision of the theoretical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. It is an attempt to replace the traditional... (more)
Deconstructing Normativity?: Re-Reading Freud's 1905 Three Essays
Deconstructing Normativity? brings together a unique collection of chapters in which an international selection of contributors reflect on the fundamental and often very radical ideas present in... (more)
The Neuropsychodynamic Treatment of Self-Deficits: Searching for Complementarity
The Neuropsychodynamic Treatment of Self-Deficits examines how to work psychoanalytically with patients to address the problems that result from neuropsychological impairments, exploring the latest... (more)
Contacting the Autistic Child: Five Successful Early Psychoanalytic Interventions
Amid long-standing controversy on their causes, which most regard as neurological, and despite their increasing social impact, there has been scant progress in the therapy of the autistic spectrum... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction: How to Flourish in the Workplace
Freud said that love and work are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the good life. While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to... (more)
Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing: A Holistic Relational Perspective on the Therapeutic Process
Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing is both a personal analytic credo and a multidimensional approach to thinking about clinical interaction. The book's central theme is that of analytic... (more)
Developments in Object Relations: Controversies, Conflicts, and Common Ground
Developments in Object Relations provides a highly accessible account of how British Object Relations developed in the second half of the twentieth century, focusing on the generation who took up... (more)
Confusion of Tongues: A Return to Sandor Ferenczi
Sandor Ferenczi, Sigmund Freud’s brilliant pupil as well as an innovative psychoanalyst, was silenced by various generations of his contemporaries until, in the past decades, his work began to be... (more)