Psychoanalysis Books
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 The Unpublished...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)
Attachment, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Jeremy Holmes
For three decades Jeremy Holmes has been a leading figure in psychodynamic psychiatry in the UK and across the world. He has played a central role in promoting the ideas of John Bowlby and in... (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)
The Courage of Simplicity: Essential Ideas in the Work of W.R. Bion
Relying on and developing the ideas of W.R. Bion, this book observes psychoanalytic thinking through three prisms: person, group and society. The book is divided into four sections.
The first... (more)
Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting
In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though their efforts to... (more)
Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice: A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination
This book helps us understand the current resurgence of social prejudice against ethnic minority groups, the logics of scapegoating and the resulting violence.
Our time is characterised by a... (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)
Traumatised and Non-Traumatised States of the Personality: A Clinical Understanding Using Bion's Approach
This book offers an original conception of trauma and of the working mind that has not been previously presented. It is mostly based on essentials taken from Bion's contributions.
All human... (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)
Psychoanalysis, International Relations, and Diplomacy
The author has three goals in writing this book. The first is to explore large-group identity such as ethnic identity, diplomacy, political propaganda, terrorism and the role of leaders in... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement: Interpretation and Action
What is the ethical anchoring of psychoanalysis? What does it mean to be a subject and how is it different from being a self? Is analytic psychotherapy doomed to promote individualism? Psychoanalysis... (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)
Talking with Couples: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Couple Relationship
‘In this compact and illuminating study of the evolving theoretical framework informing psychoanalytic work with couples, the authors highlight concepts that have been most drawn upon in developing... (more)
Hamlet in Analysis: Horatio's Story—A Trial of Faith
Revised Edition (more)
An Introduction to W.R. Bion's A Memoir of the Future: Volume Two: Facts of Matter or a Matter of Fact?
In the last years of his life Bion gathered unusual manuscripts handwritten in his tidy lettering that assumed the form of a trilogy. Finely typed and edited by his dedicated wife, they were named A... (more)
Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches
Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches represents the leading edge of work in the field by members of the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Committee on Prejudice... (more)
Minding the Social Brain
A generation of social neuroscientists uses acronyms to identify the structural neural networks revealed in the NIH Human Connectome Project. They know that a medial brain hub of nodal networks, the... (more)