Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)