Psychoanalysis Books
How Talking Cures: Revealing Freud's Contributions to All Psychotherapies
Sigmund Freud repeatedly revised his understanding of how our minds work, how to understand mental illness, and how to relieve emotional, psychological suffering. With each revision, however, he did... (more)
Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism
Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both... (more)
Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche
In Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche, Samuel Kimbles explores collective shadow processes, intergenerational transmission of group traumas, and social suffering as... (more)
Freud's Theory of Dreams: A Philosophico-Scientific Perspective
Freud's Theory of Dreams: A Philosophico-Scientific Perspective evaluates Freud's theory of dreams in light of the many philosophical and scientific criticisms that have been brought against it.... (more)
Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process
Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process offers an original theory of the nature of meaningful coincidences... (more)
Injured Men: Trauma, Healing, and the Masculine Self
Winner of the 2010 Gradiva Award, Injured Men is a unique casebook of clinical material pertaining to men who have sustained trauma. With the exception of those publications dealing with the... (more)
War is Not Inevitable: On the Psychology of War and Aggression
In 1932 Einstein asked Freud, 'Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?' Freud answered that war is inevitable because humans have an instinct to self-destroy, a death instinct... (more)
Critical Flicker Fusion: Psychoanalysis at the Movies
The premise of this book is that films, like other works of the imagination, may be elucidated by applying methods derived from psychoanalysis, and that doing so will result in a deeper and richer... (more)
The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women: Psychoanalytic and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
In recent years there has been a surge in awareness of the many arenas in which violence against women occurs. There is a growing attention to human and sex trafficking and femicide throughout the... (more)
The Linked Self in Psychoanalysis: The Pioneering Work of Enrique Pichon Riviere
Enrique Pichon Riviere was a pioneering psychoanalyst, writing in Spanish in Argentina in the middle of the 20th century. He has never been translated into English, so his ideas are only known... (more)
Meltzer in Venice: Seminars with the Racker Group of Venice
This book focuses on adolescence and adolescent states of mind. It is one of a series that record Donald Meltzer’s clinical seminars and supervisions, which were conducted in various countries on a... (more)
Sadism: Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspectives
Voyeuristic sadism as a form of entertainment seems to be on the rise, the increase corresponding with an upsurge in public appetite for sadomasochism as a recreational activity. Over the last... (more)
On Loving, Hating, and Living Well: The Public Psychoanalytic Lectures of Ralph R. Greenson
Ralph R. Greenson, MD, was perhaps psychoanalysis's most gifted and eloquent spokesperson. In this volume Dr Greenson is presented in one of the roles he enjoyed most: communicating to a lay audience... (more)
The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Volume I
This systematic and comprehensive volume, written in a lively and clear style, is devoted essentially to the fundamentals of psychoanalytic technique: transference and resistance. Dr. Greenson... (more)
Writing on the Moon: Stories and Poetry from the Creative Unconscious by Psychoanalysts and Others
This innovative book offers a collection of creative writings by psychotherapists – poems, short stories, and creative non-fiction. The
themes tap into our most passionate and spontaneous selves,... (more)
Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management
Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management is replete with clinical pearls and highly useful tips for the management of patients driven by feelings of guilt and remorse. Eight distinguished... (more)
Human Goodness: Origins, Manifestations, and Clinical Implications
Human Goodness: Origins, Manifestations, and Clinical Implications focuses on the positive attributes that exist in each human heart. In this volume eight distinguished clinicians elucidate the... (more)
The Work of Psychoanalysis: Sexuality, Time and the Psychoanalytic Mind
Psychoanalysts working in clinical situations are constantly confronted with the struggle between conservative forces and those which enable something new to develop. Continuity and change, stasis... (more)
Radical Psychoanalysis: An Essay on Free-Associative Praxis
Only by the method of free-association could Sigmund Freud have demonstrated how human consciousness is formed by the repression of thoughts and feelings that we consider dangerous. Yet today most... (more)
Reading Italian Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis in Italy is a particularly diverse and vibrant profession, embracing a number of influences and schools of thought, connecting together new thinking, and producing theorists and... (more)
The Clinical Erik Erikson: A Psychoanalytic Method of Engagement and Activation
The twentieth century has been described as the time of man's discovery of himself; few have contributed more to this cause than Erik Erikson. The Clinical Erik Erikson: A Psychoanalytic Method of... (more)
The Ethical Turn: Otherness and Subjectivity in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Levinas (1969) claims that morality is not a branch of philosophy, but first philosophy and if he is right about this, might ethics also serve as a first psychology? This possibility is explored by... (more)
New Models of Bereavement Theory and Treatment: New Mourning
New Models of Bereavement Theory and Treatment: New Mourning is a major contribution to our culture's changing view of bereavement and mourning, identifying flaws in old models and offering a new,... (more)
The Couple: A Pluridisciplinary Story
The Couple: A Pluridisciplinary Story asks two questions and endeavours to answer them: What is the couple? And what story are we talking about? Eric Smadja presents his view of 'the couple' as a... (more)
Life in the Consulting Room: Portraits
This book offers a series of noteworthy vignettes that occurred in the author’s consulting room. Although the context and objective of each consultation varied, the decision to present them here is... (more)
Psychoanalysis Listening to Love: Passion and Bonds
This book is about love, about how we fall in love and why we fall in love, and about how much we suffer if unable to love or be loved. The need to love and be loved can be read as the prototype of... (more)
Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion
Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destruction of the self or others has been described as... (more)
Melanie Klein: Early Analysis Play and the Question of Freedom
This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations... (more)
A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom: On the Human Condition in Education
A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom provides rich descriptions of the surprising ways individuals handle matters of love and hate when dealing with reading and writing in the classroom. With wit and... (more)
Carved by Experience: Vipassana, Psychoanalysis, and the Mind Investigating Itself
How does the tendency to crave pleasure and reject pain shape our lives? How does it affect the way we perceive reality, and how is it related to the emergence of suffering and the way it is... (more)