Psychoanalysis Books
Freud and the Buddha: The Couch and the Cushion
This book investigates what psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other, and offers chapters by a Buddhist scholar, a psychiatrist-author, and a number of leading psychoanalysts. It begins... (more)
Women and Creativity: A Psychoanalytic Glimpse Through Art, Literature, and Social Structure
This latest book in the Psychoanalysis and Women series includes writings from practising psychoanalysts mainly from Italy and Europe. They take a wide sweep in exploring many aspects of women's... (more)
Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Increased worldwide mobility and easy access to technology means that the use of technological mediation for treatment is being adopted rapidly and uncritically by psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic... (more)
Psychoanalytic Complexity: Clinical Attitudes for Therapeutic Change
Psychoanalytic Complexity is the application of a multidisciplinary, explanatory theory to clinical psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. It carries with it incisive and pivotal attitudes that aim to... (more)
Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma
Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma is an in-depth exploration of the relationship between trauma and creativity. It is about art in the service of healing, mourning, and... (more)
Understanding and Coping with Failure: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Failure is a theme of great importance in most clinical conditions, and in everyday life, from birth until death. Its impact can be destabilizing, even disastrous. In spite of these facts, there has... (more)
The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality
The Embodied Analyst brings together the history of embodied analysis found in the work of Freud and Reich and contemporary relational analysis, particularly as influenced by infant research. By... (more)
Psychoanalytic Therapy with Infants and Parents: Practice, Theory and Results
Psychoanalytic Therapy with Infants and Parents provides a clear guide to clinical psychoanalytic work with distressed babies and unhappy parents, infants and their parents, a numerous clinical group... (more)
Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Society and Culture
Paul Wachtel is widely regarded as the leading advocate for integrative thinking in personality theory and the theory and practice of psychotherapy. He is a contributor to cutting edge thought in the... (more)
The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis, Consciousness and the Human Soul
The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives. Roger Kennedy puts forward the central... (more)
On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead Certainties
For some years now, psychoanalysts have been trying to understand the implications of neuroscientific findings for psychoanalytic theory and practice. In On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death:... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in Mothers' Hands
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in Mothers' Hands is a playful exploration of how people's desires, fantasies, and emotions shape political events and social phenomena. It... (more)
Cupid's Knife: Women's Anger and Agency in Violent Relationships
Much domestic violence literature has called attention to the fact that women's material needs for shelter, daycare, employment, and legal protection may render them helpless to leave toxic... (more)
Melanie Klein and Marcelle Spira: Their Correspondence and Context
This book comprises letters from Klein to Spira set in an editorial framework and discusses them in the context of understanding Klein's later work.
Contents: Britton, Foreword. The Unpublished... (more)
Life Lessons from Freud
Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. He developed... (more)
A Psychoanalyst on the Couch
In A Psychoanalyst on the Couch we find the noted psychoanalyst and Lacan commentator Juan-David Nasio on the analyst's couch himself. In the interview that makes up this book, he provides insight... (more)
Philosophical Essays on Freud
This volume of essays, by some of today's leading philosophers, explores all these topics, as well as the methods, results and status of the theory itself, while two 'classical' discussions by... (more)
What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Psychoanalysis: A Local Habitation and a Name
Using Shakespeare's work to expand our understanding of what it is to be human, this book of applied psychoanalysis furthers the study of Shakespeare, literary theory, dramatic arts, and... (more)
Origins: On the Genesis of Psychic Reality
The question of what constitutes psychic reality has been of interest to philosophers and psychologists for as long as humans have thought about the mind. In Origins, Jon Mills presents a provocative... (more)
Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation
In this volume Daniel Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally, and as it is enacted relationally. Focusing on the dynamics of... (more)
Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst's Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional
Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst's Life Experience explores how leaders in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy address the phenomena of the psychoanalyst's personal life and... (more)
Managed Lives: Psychoanalysis, Inner Security and the Social Order
An inherent tension exists in the history of psychoanalysis and its applications between the concepts of freedom and security. In Managed Lives, this tension is explored from the point of view of... (more)
Endings and Beginnings: On Terminating Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Second Edition
In this second edition Herbert J. Schlesinger explores endings and beginnings within psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy; both the obvious main endings and beginnings of any course in... (more)
Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Method and Theory
Bringing a fresh contemporary Freudian view to a number of current issues in psychoanalysis, this book is about a psychoanalytic method that has been evolved by Fred Busch over the past 40 years... (more)
From Soma to Symbol: Psychosomatic Conditions and Transformative Experience
This book traces the theoretical history of psychosomatics in psychoanalysis, and with it the ways that psychoanalytically-trained clinicians have tried to understand and treat patients with complex... (more)
(Post)apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation
What are the psychical mechanisms that underlie a given social formation? (Post)apartheid Conditions investigates this question by exploring a series of psychosocial topics - the body,... (more)
What Holds Us Together: Popular Culture and Social Cohesion
Faced by the increasing divisiveness and volatility of electoral politics, and the rise of illiberal fundamentalisms, the social sciences may seem to lack the imagination necessary to make sense of... (more)
The Future of an Illusion
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, declared that religion is a universal obsessional neurosis in his famous work of 1927, The Future of an Illusion. This work provoked immediate... (more)
Teaching Meltzer: Modes and Approaches
This book is one of a short series on the teaching of post-Kleinian analysis, with a companion volume on Teaching Bion.
The trials and tribulations of teaching are intimately connected with... (more)
Teaching Bion: Modes and Approaches
This book is one of a short series on the teaching of post-Kleinian psychoanalysis, with a companion volume on Teaching Meltzer.
Wilfred Bion always emphasised that he had no desire to implant... (more)