Psychoanalysis Books
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of... (more)
Philosophy and Working-through the Past: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Social Pathologies
At certain moments in his political essays, Kant conceives of socio-historical emancipation as a process of working ourselves out of pathological legacies, suggesting that emancipation would involve... (more)
Freud on Religion
Freud argued that religions originate in the unconscious needs, longings and fantasies of human minds. His work has served to highlight how any analysis of religion must explore mental life, both the... (more)
Cixous, Derrida, Psychoanalysis
This book considers the different ways psychoanalysis is of immense importance to the work of Helene Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Bringing together original essays by leading contemporary thinkers in... (more)
The Sphinx and the Riddles of Passion, Love and Sexuality
An international cooperation of psychoanalysts presents the role of symbolization in the development of the human mind. Based on Freud's theory of the Unconscious and of infantile sexuality we have... (more)
Ego Damage and Repair: Toward a Psychodynamic Neurology
As a psychiatric trainee at Harvard in the early 1960s, Dr Allan Hobson was taught commitment to psychoanalytic theory that was already suspect and is now almost entirely obsolete. Via a series of... (more)
The Birth of Intersubjectivity: Psychodynamics, Neurobiology, and the Self
This book, the exciting collaboration of a developmental psychoanalyst at the forefront of functional magnetic resonance attachment research and a leading neurobiological researcher on mirror... (more)
Mental Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and its Pathology
‘Salman Akhtar and Vamik Volkan’s dynamic book, Mental Zoo, takes the reader on a panoramic tour illuminating the rich world of animals in human experience. Here Freud’s rats, wolves, and horses join... (more)
Cultural Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and its Sublimation
‘This book is a major contribution to culture and to the psychoanalytic literature. The authors explore how animals, both wild and domesticated, have powerful symbolic meanings in our psyches,... (more)
Donald W. Winnicott: A New Approach
Winnicott was continually innovating, inventing, and proposing unexpected solutions in his analytical work whenever he noticed that clinical experience “didn’t stick to the theory”. This approach can... (more)
The Failed Assassination of Psychoanalysis: The Rise and Fall of Cognitivism
It can happen that a law incurs the wrath of the very people it set out to protect. This is what happened in France at the end of 2003 with the Accoyer Amendment, a Bill that intended to regulate the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Technique and Theory: Taking the Transference
This volume consists of a series of essays inspired by Freud’s paper on Jensen's novel Gradiva - “she who steps along.” In the story a young archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, suffers from delusions but... (more)
Siblings in the Unconscious and Psychopathology: Womb Fantasies, Claustrophobias, Fear of Pregnancy, Murderous Rage, Animal Symbolism, Christmas and Easter "Neuroses", and Twinnings or Identifications with Sisters and Brothers
This book examines adults’ identifications and internal relationships with their siblings’ mental representations. The authors believe that the best way to illustrate clinical formulations and... (more)
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated,... (more)
Psychiatric Rehabilitation: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Recovery
Recovering from severe mental illness is one of the most terrifying human experiences in health care. Often conventional rehabilitation approaches focus on helping the patient with his or her... (more)
The Birth of Experience
The birth of experience goes on all life long. Giving birth to oneself involves many processes. The first chapter of this book expands on Eigen’s final talk on "Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah" for the... (more)
Elements of Reparation: Truth, Faith, and Transformation in the Works of Heidegger, Bion, and Beyond
Damage and reparation are central themes of human existence. Melanie Klein, among other pivotal discoveries, noted our capacity for destructiveness towards others and ourselves. More importantly, she... (more)
The Promise: Who is in Charge of Time and Space?
Our sense of identity begins (our psychological birth sometime in the first year of life) with the feeling that we are the centre of the universe, protected by godlike benevolent parents who will... (more)
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)
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)