Psychoanalysis Books
The Psychoanalytic Craft: How to Develop as a Psychoanalytic Practitioner
Why is developing as a psychoanalytic practitioner so often laden with anxiety? A simple answer is that psychoanalytic work is intrinsically complex and difficult. But Laurence Spurling argues... (more)
Sexual Difference in Debate: Bodies, Desires, and Fictions
Now well into the twenty-first century, relevant changes in symbolic codes that organize social bonds are observed. Important modifications regarding the model of the nuclear family in Western... (more)
Specialty Competencies in Psychoanalysis in Psychology
In its evolution, psychoanalysis has become a broad spectrum of theories making use of an approach that can be considered psychoanalytic in that it is based on the existence and importance of... (more)
The Fictions of Dreams: Dreams, Literature, and Writing
The Fictions of Dreams explores the close connection between the narrative nature of dreams and the narrative devices employed in literature and creative writing. The book is unique in its... (more)
The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: Claiming the Baby: Second Edition
The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is a comprehensive handbook, addressing the provision of therapeutic help for babies and their parents when their attachment relationship is... (more)
Psychoanalytic Treatment in Adults: A Longitudinal Study of Change
The outcomes of psychoanalysis, as with other psychotherapies, vary considerably. This book examines the results of a longitudinal study of change during psychoanalysis, illuminating the... (more)
The Cornerstones of Psychoanalysis: Volume 2: Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi
This volume considers Freud's psychoanalytic work alongside social and medical practices in the late 19th century, exploring the role of women and femininity in relation to Freud's self-analysis.... (more)
The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis
The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis, introduces new perspectives on desire and longing, in and outside of the analytic relationship. This exciting volume explores the... (more)
Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis
Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis, demonstrates the demanding, clinical and humanitarian work that psychotherapists often undertake with... (more)
Kohut's Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human
Kohut's Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human chronicles a 10-year-voyage in which the authors struggled, initially independently, to make sense of Kohut's intentions when he... (more)
Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity
Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity is a landmark contribution that provides fresh insights into the experience and process of mourning. It includes fourteen original essays by... (more)
Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge: The Fascinated and the Disenchanted
Psychoanalysis flourishes in the development of its theories and has become an enriched and multifaceted discipline, now enjoying a particularly exciting period of intellectual and clinical... (more)
The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity
Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, and Susan Farrell, and clinical case studies, Susan Kavaler-Adler offers penetrating... (more)
What is this Professor Freud Like?: A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments
In 1921, a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud. In a diary, she recorded what moved her. The present volume not only contains a full translation of these records, but also... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theory: Perspectives, Techniques and Social Implications
From the inception of psychoanalysis as an exploration of unconscious motivations and the power of fantasy life, the field has adopted a Cartesian worldview. From this perspective, the focus of... (more)
Further Researching Beneath the Surface: Psycho-Social Research Methods in Practice - Volume 2
Contributions in this volume cover ways of knowing, the dynamics of research encounters, new methods of psycho-social inquiry, and the first-hand experience of being a researcher. Since the first... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Inside and the Outside
This book explores how psychoanalysis and architecture can enhance and increase the chances of mental 'containment', while also fostering exchange between inside and outside.
The way in which... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China (2023 Institutional Print Subscription)
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
From Psycho-Analysis to Culture-Analysis: A Within-Culture Psychotherapy
From Psycho-Analysis to Culture-Analysis confronts the barriers that face the cross-cultural application of western psychotherapy. It puts forward an argument for applying culture analysis, in which... (more)
Wilhelm Reich, Biologist
Psychoanalyst, political theorist, pioneer of body therapies, prophet of the sexual revolution all fitting titles, but Wilhelm Reich has never been recognized as a serious laboratory scientist,... (more)
Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious
Octave Mannoni worked in France, Madagascar, and Africa throughout the twentieth century to develop Lacanian psychoanalytic methods in the feld of ethnology. He is best known for his research on the... (more)
Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses - psychoanalysis and historicism.... (more)
The Weary Sons of Freud
In this passionately written and controversial book, first published in 1978, Catherine Clement, Communist, feminist and analysand, asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and... (more)
The Language of Distress: Understanding a Child's Behaviour
This book describes a series of cases where the child’s presenting complaint is seen to be the expression of an underlying emotional conflict that the child expects the parents to understand and help... (more)
The Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis: Evidence and Confirmation
In his Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique, Adolf Gru¨nbaum claimed that the arguments supporting psychoanalytic hypotheses are both logically invalid and unsound. They are... (more)
Identity, Narcissism, and the Other: Object Relations and their Obstacles
Practitioners of psychoanalysis find three central themes to be recurrent and ubiquitous in every analysis; firstly, issues around identity, the struggle to know the self, to understand the self and... (more)
Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction
Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In... (more)
Ethics of Evil: Psychoanalytic Investigations
In today’s world where every form of transgression enjoys a psychological motive and rational justification, psychoanalysis stands alone in its ability to uncover the hidden motives that inform... (more)
Life After Loss: The Lessons of Grief
How we cope with grief and come to terms with the death of a loved one shapes our world. In this comprehensive guide to the mourning process, Dr Volkan, a world-recognised authority on grief, shows... (more)
Daseinsanalysis
Daseinsanalysis—the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic school of thought founded by Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss in the 1940s—had a huge impact on the development of existential therapies in the... (more)