Psychoanalysis Books
The Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond
The question of what it means to be a mother is a very contentious topic in psychoanalysis and in wider society. The Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond explores our relationship to the maternal... (more)
From Illiteracy to Literature: Psychoanalysis and Reading
From Illiteracy to Literature presents innovative material based on research with 'non-reading' children and re-examines the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, through the... (more)
Attachment Across Clinical and Cultural Perspectives: A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach
Attachment Across Clinical and Cultural Perspectives brings together leading thinkers in attachment theory to explore its importance across cultural, clinical and social contexts and the application... (more)
Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis: Theory and Clinical Applications
Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis provides a detailed look at the intricacies of attaining emotional presence in psychoanalytic work. John Madonna and a distinguished group of contributors draw on... (more)
Advances in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Concept and Future Development
Field Theory is a powerful and growing paradigm within psychoanalysis, but has previously been split between various schools of thought with little overlap. In this book, a distinguished group of... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Stories, Dreams, and Metaphor
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory articulates the theory, heuristic principles, and clinical techniques of psychoanalytic field theory. S. Montana Katz describes the historical, philosophical... (more)
Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics
Psychoanalysis engages with the difficult subjects in life, but it has been slow to address climate change. Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics draws on the latest scientific evidence... (more)
Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting
Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting is a highly topical, continuing conversation on the role of technology in psychoanalysis and its tremendous potential for outreach to patients in the... (more)
When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia
Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic... (more)
Mindbrain, Psychoanalytic Institutions, and Psychoanalysts: A New Metapsychology Consistent with Neuroscience
In this book, Antonio Imbasciati criticises the isolationism of traditional psychoanalytic associations, compared to those of other branches of psychology, and their suspicion of neuroscience. Today,... (more)
Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders: A Motivational Systems Approach to Theory and Treatment
Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders draws on major theorists and the very latest research to help formulate and introduce the Relational/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA),... (more)
Building Bridges: The Impact of Neuropsychoanalysis on Psychoanalytic Clinical Sessions
This volume addresses the issue of the clinical relevance of neuroscience to psychoanalysis. New findings are revealing unexpected aspects of neuroscience and pushing the entire field toward... (more)
The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction
The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction explores Bollas's extraordinarily wide contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis. The book aims to introduce and explain the fundamentals... (more)
Good Stuff: Courage, Resilience, Gratitude, Generosity, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice
Good Stuff is divided into two main parts; Part I addresses Positive Attributes and Part II, Positive Actions. The former contains chapters on Courage, Resilience, and Gratitude. The latter contains... (more)
Family and Couple Psychoanalysis: A Global Perspective
This book explores family interaction and family psychoanalysis from varying standpoints used around the world. It illustrates these with extensive clinical cases discussed from varying perspectives.... (more)
Psychodynamics of Writing
Although psychoanalysis began as the 'talking cure', Freud's ideas and speculations were in many ways worked out in and through writing. The large Freudian corpus includes case studies, theory... (more)
Freud at Work: On the History of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice, with an Analysis of Freud's Patient Record Books
Presenting a new frame of reference, the author argues that Freud’s theories are not the result of his genius alone but were developed in exchange with colleagues and students, which is not always... (more)
The Essential Being: Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism
This book explores the concept of “pre-conceptual trauma”, drawing in particular on the pioneering research of Wilfred Bion. A comparison is established between two different groups of individuals:... (more)
A Dangerous Place to Be: Identity, Conflict, and Trauma in Higher Education
This book investigates recent conflictual events on college and university campuses, including protests directed at university leaders deemed victimizers, debates over the inclusion of “trigger... (more)
Your Secret Mind: Getting to Know and Living with Your Unconscious
This book will help the reader get to know their unconscious mind through a series of exercises. Results will serve all curious readers well, especially psychotherapists, writers, artists, actors and... (more)
Changing Sexualities and Parental Functions in the Twenty-First Century
Recent societal changes have challenged long-established concepts in psychoanalysis, including the Oedipus complex, parental functions, and male and female psychosexuality. ‘Postmodern families’,... (more)
Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections
This is a book about death, loss, grief and mourning, but with an unusual twist. It is different in that it explores specific kinds of deaths encountered within families and households, rather than... (more)
Mistrust: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Humans are weak. Lacking the claws and thick skins of other animals, we are forced to rely on members of our own species to survive and flourish in the world. The fact that the human infant is born... (more)
Balint Matters: Psychosomatics and the Art of Assessment
This book explores the life and theories of Michael Balint, who kept alive Ferenczi’s analytic traditions in Budapest and brought them to London, where they became a vital part of the Independent... (more)
Migration Trauma, Culture, and Finding the Psychological Home Within: Views From British Object Relations Theory
Migration Trauma, Culture, and Finding the Psychological Home Within is an in-depth study of Eastern European migration to the United States. In presenting the clinical case studies of Eastern... (more)
Future Psychoanalysis: Toward a Psychology of the Human Subject
A crisis in psychoanalysis has been developing since the 1970s, manifesting in a gradual but persistent loss of patients and young mental health providers in psychoanalytic training and therapy. In a... (more)
Freud's Other Theory of Psychoanalysis: The Replacement for the Indelible Theory of Catharsis
Freud's Other Theory of Psychoanalysis: The Replacement for the Indelible Theory of Catharsis argues that Freud's familiar theory of psychoanalysis is an elaboration of his catharsis theory. Although... (more)
Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment
In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr Norman Straker proposes that death anxiety is responsible for the American society's failure to address costly... (more)
The Clinical Problem of Masochism
The problem of how to understand and to treat masochism has plagued the vast majority of clinicians. The Clinical Problem of Masochism focuses on the common and difficult clinical problems posed by... (more)
Consciousness and the Aconscious in Psychoanalytic Theory
In the last few decades consciousness has become a major topic of interest for neurologists, psychologists, and a host of other professionals in various disciplines. Their concerted efforts to define... (more)