Psychoanalysis Books
Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community
In Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community, Ryan LaMothe questions the ways in which psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theorists and clinicians have historically... (more)
The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis: Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial
Why does the field of sociology in the United States often overlook or marginalize psychoanalytic concepts like anxiety, defence mechanisms, and the unconscious dating back to Sigmund Freud? The... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Religion: Essays in Honour of Sudhir Kakar
This collection of essays celebrates three streams of knowledge-psychoanalysis, culture, and religion-and their confluence in Kakar's work as a kind of post-independence renaissances of the Indian... (more)
Recollecting Freud
This eyewitness account by one of Sigmund Freud's earliest students has been rediscovered for twenty-first-century readers. Isidor Sadger's recollections provide a unique window into the early days... (more)
Treating People with Psychosis in Institutions: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
This book brings together the histories of a number of psychoanalytically-informed hospitals, and provides a synthesis of the theoretical underpinnings in the institutional practice of each. Of... (more)
Freud: Off the Record
Throughout history, people have searched for explanations to make sense of their lives. First there was magic and religion, then there was science; and somewhere in between was Freud. Freud's whole... (more)
Dignity Matters: Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Perspectives
This book explores an ethical value central to all mental health professions. Although “dignity” appears near the beginning of many codes of ethics, it has been largely unexamined in the professional... (more)
Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out
A useful guide to understanding the mysteries of the mind and how we can change for the better. How can it be that perfectly intelligent people do such obviously counterproductive things so much of... (more)
Erotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios
Erotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios delves into erotic desires and fantasies ...above all, how our sexuality expresses our inner being and defines the ways in which we... (more)
Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Psychoanalysts About Endings
Psychoanalysis can make a huge difference in the lives of patients, their families and others they encounter. Myths have developed, however, about how psychoanalysis should end - what patients... (more)
Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders
In this edited volume, Jean Petrucelli brings together the work of talented clinicians and researchers steeped in working with eating disordered patients for the past 10 to 35 years. Eating disorders... (more)
The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy
The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy applies advances in relational psychoanalysis to the theory and practice of group psychotherapy. In this volume Robert Grossmark and... (more)
The Psychological Development of Girls and Women: Rethinking Change in Time: Second Edition
This thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative take on the psychological development of girls and women which emphasised the central role of time in shaping human... (more)
Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Libido Theory
The libido theory is one of the major areas of interest in psychoanalysis. Freud's insights in this field have been widely applied and used by psychoanalysts, adult and child psychiatrists,... (more)
Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on Metapsychology, Conflicts, Anxiety and Other Subjects
Originally published in 1970 and in contrast to the other three volumes in this series, which each dealt with a single subject, this volume is a miscellaneous one. Seventeen subjects were selected on... (more)
Freud and Culture
In this book Eric Smadja explores the representations of society and culture that Freud developed in the course of his work. Distinct from contemporary sociological and anthropological conceptions,... (more)
The Americanization of Narcissism
American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans... (more)
Donor Conception for Life: Psychoanalytic Reflections on New Ways of Conceiving the Family
This book is about the psychological experiences of women and men who have used donor conception to create their families. The authors offer diverse accounts of their clinical, research, and personal... (more)
Everyday Life and the Unconscious Mind: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Concepts
An increasing number of people are seeking to develop an understanding of psychoanalytic concepts in order to apply them to the ordinary situations that they encounter as they go about their work,... (more)
After Genocide: How Ordinary Jews Face the Holocaust
2015 was the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War Two, and, for Jews, the seventieth anniversary of the end of the worst Jewish catastrophe in diaspora history. After Genocide considers... (more)
The Abandonment Neurosis
First published in 1950, La névrose d’abandon was and still is a ground-breaking work. Guex’s research turns on two clinical observations: the frequent occurrence of analysands whose neurotic... (more)
On Freud's "Observations On Transference-Love"
This is the third volume in the series Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues, published for the International Psychoanalytical Association. Each volume presents a classic essay by... (more)
Karl Abraham: Life and Work, a Biography
Karl Abraham: Life and Work, a Biography is the first complete biography of Karl Abraham (1877-1925), a close colleague and friend of Sigmund Freud and one of the most important pioneers of... (more)
Freud and the Scene of Trauma
This book is a study of the central role of trauma in Freud's thought and practice. It argues that it is Freud's mapping of trauma as a scene, the elaboration of a scenography of trauma, that is... (more)
Time for Change: Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis - The Three-Level Model
How can we, analysts, evaluate whether analysis is generating transformations in our patients? The IPA Project Committee on Clinical Observation and Testing offers a tool: The Three-Level Model for... (more)
Psychopathology of Work: Clinical Observations
This book examines the processes at issue in the onset of psychiatric disorders linked to stress in the workplace. Six clinical observations are presented: an acute psychosomatic decompensation... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind: Unconscious Mentality in the Twenty-first Century
Of the topics found in psychoanalytic theory it is Freud’s philosophy of mind that is at once the most contentious and enduring. Psychoanalytic theory makes bold claims about the significance of... (more)
Wish-Fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: The Tyranny of Desire
Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy,... (more)
Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics
The first book of its kind to provide a detailed analysis of the history of the unconscious from the underworlds of Greek and Egyptian mythology to psychoanalysis and metaphysics, Jon Mills presents... (more)
Psychology After the Unconscious: From Freud to Lacan
What is the role of 'representation' in Freud's concept of the unconscious? What are the implications for our understanding of language in the clinic? How does Lacan radicalise this 'unconscious' in... (more)