Psychoanalysis Books
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)
The Analytical Process: Journeys and Pathways
The term ‘psychoanalytical process’, though occurring but rarely in Freud’s works, has become firmly established nowadays despite being hard to define, explain, or pin down in conceptual or... (more)
Trauma, Trust, and Memory: Social Trauma and Reconciliation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Cultural Memory
Trauma is one of the most important topics discussed throughout the clinical, social and cultural field. Social traumatization, as we meet it in the aftermath of genocide, war and persecution, is... (more)
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death
Was 'death' a lacuna at the heart of Sigmund Freud's work? Liran Razinsky argues that the question of death is repressed, rejected and avoided by Freud, therefore resulting in an impairment of the... (more)
The Clinic of Disability: Psychoanalytical Approaches
This publication brings together eleven articles on the clinical treatment of disability from French researchers in the fields of psychology, anthropology, psychiatry, and philosophy. The authors all... (more)
Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves
Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves presents a unique approach to understanding the varied and multi-layered experience of immigration, exploring how social, cultural, political, and... (more)
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma is an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and... (more)
Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis
Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis is the first of two volumes that delves into the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning. The book uses... (more)
Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis
What is the truth of the unconscious? Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis explores the intersection of these two concepts within a Bionian framework. Giuseppe Civitarese maps out the... (more)
Demons in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Genocide, Slavery and Extreme Trauma in Psychoanalytic Practice
Demons in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Genocide, Slavery and Extreme Trauma in Psychoanalytic Practice is the second of two volumes addressing the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings... (more)
Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads: Reformation, Change and the Future of Psychoanalytic Training
Training in psychoanalysis is a long and demanding process. However, the quality of education available is hugely variable across the world. The structure of psychoanalytic education, centered on the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theory, Research and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg
Psychoanalytic Theory, Research and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg explores both Lichtenberg's psychoanalytic theoretical contributions and innovations in clinical technique, and... (more)
Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process: Sensibility, Engagement and Envisioning
Contemporary psychoanalytic thinking about the interdependence of subjectivity and intersubjectivity has reenvisioned the analytic process, and with it the very nature of creative and engaged... (more)
The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis
In The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis, Steven Cooper explores a subject matter previously applied more exclusively to patients, but rarely... (more)
Humanizing Evil: Psychoanalytic, Philosophical and Clinical Perspectices
Psychoanalysis has traditionally had difficulty in accounting for the existence of evil. Freud saw it as a direct expression of unconscious forces, whereas more recent theorists have examined the... (more)
Entering Night Country: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Loss and Resilience
None of us will escape the experience of personal loss, illness, aging, or mortality. Yet, psychoanalysis seems to shy away from a discussion of these core human experiences. Existential... (more)
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism provides rich new insights into the history of political thought and clinical knowledge. In these chapters, internationally renowned historians and... (more)
The Seed of Madness: Constitution, Environment, and Fantasy in the Organization of the Psychotic Core
More and more individuals with ego defects, severe object relations conflicts, affective turbulence, and unassimilated contradictions are seeking help from psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.... (more)
Clinical Dialogues on Psychoanalysis with Families and Couples
This book widens the scope of clinical and theoretical contributions on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis by collecting case presentations and discussions by analysts from Europe, North America, Latin... (more)
Under the Totem: In Search of a Path
Totem conveys spirit, a sense of the sacred. Freud attempted to get under the totem and explore psychic forces and pressures below the surface. Jung opened further depths in exploration of the... (more)
Researching the Unconscious: Principles of Psychoanalytic Method
Researching the Unconscious provides an exposition of key issues in the philosophy and methods of the social sciences which are relevant to psychoanalysis as both a clinical practice and a human... (more)