Psychoanalysis Books
Explorations in Autism: A Psychoanalytical Study
This clinical study by five analysts working with autistic children sheds new light on the primitive developmental phases of every human mind, with the emergence of concepts such as dismantling,... (more)
The Psychoanalytical Process
Sets forth an integrated concept of the 'natural history' of the psychoanalytical process, viewed in the light of experience gained in the child-analytical playroom, and applied to the more... (more)
The Apprehension of Beauty: The Role of Aesthetic Conflict in Development, Art and Violence
This volume has grown over the years as a family project of Martha Harris, her two daughters Meg and Morag and her husband, Donald Meltzer. It therefore has its roots in English literature and its... (more)
Sex Now, Talk Later
Sex matters. It is a crucial part of whom we are and what to do. So why do we police what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘bizarre’? As Estela Welldon argues in this insightful book, whenever we disapprove... (more)
Imaginary Existences: Dream, Daydream, Phantasy, Fiction
Imaginary Existences interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and... (more)
Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning: Clinical and Theoretical Contributions
In the last several decades, the analytic field has widened considerably in scope. The therapeutic task is now seen by an increasing number of analysts to require that patient and analyst work... (more)
Envy and Gratitude Revisited
These stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalytic inspiration. Sixteen highly regarded analysts,... (more)
Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women: Second Edition
The analysis of women by women has made a valuable contribution to the development of psychoanalytic technique and theories on femininity, sexuality and embodiment. Female Experience presents... (more)
On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and... (more)
Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context
Melanie Klein left Germany in 1926 and settled in London where she soon quarrelled with Anna Freud. Klein pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of... (more)
Envy And Gratitude
Melanie Klein's writings, particularly on infant development and psychosis, have been crucial both to theoretical work and to clinical practice. Envy and Gratitude collects her writings from 1946... (more)
A Memoir of the Future: Volumes I, II & III
A Memoir of the Future, Bion's unorthodox attempt to cast psychoanalytic speculation in fictional form, is composed of three semi-autobiographical novels: The Dream (1975), The Past Presented (1977),... (more)
Universals of Psychoanalysis: In the Treatment of Psychotic and Borderline States
An original synthesis of Kleinian and Piagetian ideas, applied to the treatment of psychotic and borderline states, by a psychoanalyst working at the Maudsley Hospital. The book examines both the... (more)
An Introduction to Object Relations
Presents a critical introduction to the work of Melanie Klein, D.W.Winnicott, W.R.D. Fairbairn, Michael Balint, H.J.S. Guntrip and John Bowlby. Subsequent chapters concentrate on the practice of... (more)
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality: Collected Papers
The classic work on object relations, which bases its understanding of human development upon the infant's innate need for relationships.
The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi
This book is an edited version of the clinical diary of Sandor Ferenczi, a noted Hungarian psychoanalyst. In a sequence of short, condensed entries, he records self-critical reflections on... (more)
Anxiety: Clarification, Critique and Update
A much-needed exploration of anxiety from a variety of outlooks: conceptual, developmental, cultural, and clinical – from both the patient and the analyst’s viewpoint. Ten original papers from ten... (more)
Bion and Psychosis: A Long Road to Clinical Discovery
This comprehensive work systematically describes Wilfred Bion’s work on psychosis and critically develops his contribution in order to arrive at an appropriate and modern understanding of the... (more)
A Critical Companion to Bion: Functions of a Psychoanalytic Personality
A Critical Companion to Bion is an introduction to the extraordinary contributions of W.R. Bion, providing a close and detailed reading of his work, anchored in systematic critical expositions of the... (more)
Psychosis: A Contemporary Introduction
Psychosis: A Contemporary Introduction offers an in-depth exploration of psychosis from a psychoanalytic perspective, combining historical developments, clinical reflections, and the author’s... (more)
Paths of Symbolization
Paths of Symbolization explores philosophical and psychoanalytic questions about the concept of symbolization.
Alain Gibeault connects symbolization with concepts like enactment and the practice... (more)
Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of a Psychoanalyst
Taking Oneself Playfully is a fascinating journey into the life and work of Marta Badoni, a highly respected adult and child training analyst in Italy and France.
The book is mainly formed of a... (more)
Community Psychoanalysis: Bringing the Individual and the Communal Together
This book delves into the history, current status, and possible future directions of psychoanalysis in the community, outside the traditional consulting room.
The book begins by digging into the... (more)
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's O
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's O pays homage to Wilfred Bion’s lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating... (more)
Love’s Labour
The bestselling debut from psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life, was about learning to live; his much-anticipated new book is about learning to love. Grosz reveals how to navigate the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis
With a new introduction from the author, this critical text of feminist theory explores how Freud's work helps us understand the subjugation of women today.
Psychoanalysis and Feminism had a... (more)
Why Read Klein? The Importance of Melanie Klein's work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Why Read Klein? explores the importance of Melanie Klein’s work to contemporary psychoanalysis, her contributions as a key early psychoanalyst and continued influence on contemporary... (more)
Bion’s Emotional Links: Love, Hate and Knowledge
In Bion's Emotional Links, Judy K. Eekhoff explores emotion as a bridge between unrepresented and represented states, highlighting the importance of both internal emotional and external relationships... (more)
An Introduction to Fairbairn’s Psychology of Dynamic Structure: The Analysis of Cultural Objects
This work introduces Fairbairn’s original object relations theory (his psychology of dynamic structure) and applies it to a number of cultural objects. Namely, a perplexing mannerist painting by... (more)