Psychoanalysis Books
On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and... (more)
Herbert Rosenfeld at Work: The Italian Seminars
Between 1978 and 1985 Dr Herbert Rosenfeld was one of a number of British analysts invited by a group of Societa di Psicoanalisi Italiani members to conduct a series of seminars and supervisions for... (more)
Fairbairn and the Origins of Object Relations
This work brings together the work of the most eminent of Fairbairn's followers. It includes sections on child abuse, infant development, and borderline and narcissistic disorders. Contributors... (more)
Internal Objects Revisited
The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of transference... (more)
Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach
Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event.... (more)
Cogitations
Cogitations, the last of the posthumous publications, is a collection of occasional writings representing Bion's attempts to clarify and evaluate both his own ideas and those of others by casting... (more)
A Memoir of the Future: Volumes I, II & III
A Memoir of the Future, Bion's unorthodox attempt to cast psychoanalytic speculation in fictional form, is composed of three semi-autobiographical novels: The Dream (1975), The Past Presented (1977),... (more)
Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
Second Thoughts is a collection of papers on Schizophrenia, Linking and Thinking, and his commentary upon them in the light of later work. Originally composed between 1950 and 1962, it derives its... (more)
Experiences in Groups
A classic study which, by synthesizing the approaches of psychoanalysis and group dynamics, has added a new dimension to the understanding of group phenomena. This collection of Bion's writings on... (more)
The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development
The collection of papers that forms The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment brings together Dr. Winnicott's published and unpublished papers on psychoanalysis and child... (more)
Freud: A Modern Master: Second Edition
Now available again in paperback. A fine, concise account of the life and work of Freud, which might prove useful to anyone seeking a general overview before plunging into Freud's works. (more)
Universals of Psychoanalysis: In the Treatment of Psychotic and Borderline States
An original synthesis of Kleinian and Piagetian ideas, applied to the treatment of psychotic and borderline states, by a psychoanalyst working at the Maudsley Hospital. The book examines both the... (more)
The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal
Examines the role of the ego-ideal not only in narcissism but in its connection to psychic life and society. (more)
Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of a Psychoanalyst
Taking Oneself Playfully is a fascinating journey into the life and work of Marta Badoni, a highly respected adult and child training analyst in Italy and France.
The book is mainly formed of a... (more)
Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities: Resistances to Differences
Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities considers and challenges expectations about psychoanalytic work with LGBTQIA+ patients.
The book is organised into three parts,... (more)
Publisher of the Mind: Seventy-Five Years of Karnac Books
Karnac Books is internationally renowned as the world’s leading independent psychoanalytic bookseller and publisher. Founded in 1950, it has a rich history now captured in fascinating detail by... (more)
Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind
Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind allows readers to examine one of the most significant areas of clinical psychoanalytic thinking, focusing on Bion’s idiom that dreaming is the... (more)
Adolescents in Crisis: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Challenges of Adolescence
Adolescents in Crisis offers a psychoanalytic perspective on the complex that can arise when young people renegotiate their relationship with the world and their own bodies as they experience... (more)
Couple Relations: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Mary Morgan provides a comprehensive overview understanding of couple relations.
Taking a psychoanalytic perspective, Morgan explores some of the fundamental tensions in being... (more)
Psychopathologies of the Living: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida
Psychopathologies of the Living makes the work of the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida (1934-2002) available in English for the first time.
Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint present key essays... (more)
Exploring Eating Disorders Through Psychoanalysis: Unravelling the Psyche
Exploring Eating Disorders through Psychoanalysis explores eating disorders as complex clinical conditions and uses psychoanalysis to explore the psychological factors behind them.
Humberto... (more)
Case Studies in Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: If I Could Turn Back Time
This book brings the reader behind the closed door of the psychotherapy office through a selection of nine riveting psychotherapy and psychoanalytic case studies.
Each story delves into the... (more)
Against Catastrophism: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Hope for the Future
Against Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals.
Bringing together contributors from psychoanalysis,... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Female to Male Transition
Drawing on theory from a range of schools of psychoanalytic thought, this timely book addresses and explores the phenomenon of the increasing number of people who were assigned female at birth and... (more)
The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond
The Queerness of Psychoanalysis is an exploration of psychoanalysis’ often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness, as well as its multifaceted heritage.
Throughout the... (more)
New Maladies of the Soul
"These days, who still has a soul?" asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Drawing on her many years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, Kristeva... (more)
In Short: Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst
In Short: Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst is wise, uplifting and inspiring. Salman Akhtar brings his talent for poetic literature to gift us 111 pithy ‘proto essays’ on a wide range of subjects. His... (more)
Learning from Experience
Wilfred R. Bion was one of the foremost psychoanalysts of his generation, whose work has shaped and enriched psychoanalysis and psychotherapy indelibly. Renowned for some highly original and... (more)
The Clinical Paradigms of Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion: Comparisons and Dialogues
This book introduces the psychoanalytic principles of both Winnicott and Bion, to compare the ways in which their concepts evolved, and to show how their different approaches contribute to... (more)
Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction
This insightful and innovative book sheds light on the complexity of the concept of guilt, while exploring aspects of guilt that have previously been overlooked in psychoanalytic theory and... (more)