Psychoanalysis Books
Sexual Difference, Abjection and Liminal Spaces: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Abhorrence of the Feminine
This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways in which sexual difference can be understood as an encounter with otherness through the abjected, investigating social discourses and... (more)
Winnicott Studies. No 9
The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application. (more)
The Baby and the Bathwater
A collection of papers, forming a useful introduction to, and expression of, English psychoanalysis in the Independent Tradition. (more)
The Neurotic Personality of Our Time
In this reissue of her classic work, Karen Horney explores the basic structure of neurosis in the context of cultural assumptions. Her topics range from the neurotic need for affection, to guilt... (more)
The Handbook of Psychoanalytic Holocaust Studies: International Perspectives
This book is a unique compilation of essays about the genocidal persecution fuelling the Nazi regime in World War II. Written by world-renowned experts in the field, it confronts a vitally important... (more)
The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, Volume Two: Hasidism
The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, Volume Two: Hasidism is the second volume, fully annotated, of a major, previously unpublished, two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905-1960). It was written between... (more)
Concerning the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse
In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Adolescent Development
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Adolescent Development: Non-Linear Perspectives on the Regulation of the Self explores how psychoanalysis can combine its theoretical perspectives with more recent... (more)
Four Discussions with W. R. Bion
These four discussions held by Wilfred Bion with a small group of psychiatrists and psychotherapists in Los Angeles in 1976 were first published in 1978, edited by Francesca Bion. Despite its brevity... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on The Freudian Death Drive: In Theory, the Clinic, and Art
Psychoanalytic Reflections on The Freudian Death Drive is a highly accessible book that investigates the relevance, complexity and originality of a hugely controversial Freudian concept which, the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men: Gender Identity in a Time of Uncertainty
Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in the United States. New perspectives that capture the complexity of men and this rapidly changing... (more)
A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence: The Holocaust, Group Hallucinosis and False Beliefs
A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence makes an analytic examination of the enactment of genocide by Nazi Germany during World War II to explore how mass and state-sponsored... (more)
A Different Path: An Emotional Autobiography
"Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my... (more)
Treatment of Severe Personality Disorders: Resolution of Aggression and Recovery of Eroticism
In Treatment of Severe Personality Disorders: Resolution of Aggression and Recovery of Eroticism, the influential psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Otto Kernberg presents an integrated update of the... (more)
Freud/Tiffany: Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the 'Best Possible School'
With over 100 archival photographs and nine original, wide-ranging essays, Freud/Tiffany brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education. Out of the cultural and political... (more)
Bion and Meltzer's Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life: Beyond the Spectrum in Psychoanalysis
Drawing on the influential contributions of Wilfred Bion and Donald Meltzer to psychoanalysis, Bion and Meltzer's Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life explores and addresses the clinical... (more)
The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper
The selected papers of one of the leading intellectual figures in psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper M.D., record his unique ability to reflect upon the process of change and help us understand not... (more)
The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression
We are, Julia Kristeva writes, strangers to ourselves; and indeed much of contemporary theory, whether psychoanalytic, historical, social, or critical, describes the human condition as one of... (more)
Why Psychoanalysis?
Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis - Freud's so-called "talking cure" - when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth... (more)
Everything is Permitted, Restrictions Still Apply: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Social Dislocation, Narcissism and Post Truth
In a highly subjectivist contemporary culture, in which the power of a compelling emotional narrative is privileged over claims to objective knowledge, there is a tendency to take defensive refuge in... (more)
Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis: A Model for Theory and Practice
In this book, Kirshner explains and illustrates the concept of intersubjectivity and its application to psychoanalysis. By drawing on findings from neuroscience, infant research, cognitive... (more)
A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice
Often overlooked because he is so easy to mock, ridicule, or just plain misunderstand, Freud introduced many techniques for clinical practice that are still widely employed today. Yet surprisingly,... (more)
The Purloined Self: Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
The Purloined Self: Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis brings together nineteen essays in updated form, still as relevant, witty and informative today as when the book originally published.... (more)
Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality
Everyday Evils takes a psychoanalytic look at the evils committed by ordinary people in different contexts - from the Nazi concentration camps, to Stockholm Syndrome, to the atrocities publicized by... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict: A Critical Reassessment
Since its inception, and throughout its history, psychoanalysis has been defined as a psychology of conflict. Freud's tripartite structure of id, ego and superego, and then modern conflict theory,... (more)
Bion in Film Theory and Analysis: The Retreat in Film
In Bion in Film Theory and Analysis: The Retreat In Film, Carla Ambrosio Garcia introduces the rich potential of the thinking of British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion for film theory. By so doing, she... (more)
An Analytic Journey: From the Art of Archery to the Art of Psychoanalysis
This book is a journey through almost forty years of practice. Each chapter is independent of the others and develops around a specific theme: psychoanalysis in France, the transference, fathers... (more)
Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting
Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting is a highly topical, continuing conversation on the role of technology in psychoanalysis and its tremendous potential for outreach to patients in the... (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)