Psychoanalysis Books
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)
From Freud To Kafka: The Paradoxical Foundation of the Life-and-Death Instinct
This book takes the reader on a captivating journey leading from an erroneous founding assumption inherited from Freud, to the proposal of a principle better suited to allowing the psychoanalyst to... (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)
John Bowlby and Attachment Theory: Second Edition
John Bowlby is one of the outstanding psychological theorists of the twentieth century. This new edition of John Bowlby and Attachment Theory is both a biographical account of Bowlby and his ideas... (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)
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)
Hysteria Today
Hysteria, one of the most diagnosed conditions in human history, is also one of the most problematic. Can it even be said to exist at all? Since the earliest medical texts people have had something... (more)
The Rangell Reader
This volume presents a selected series of papers by Leo Rangell. A giant of psychoanalysis over the course of six decades,
Rangell sought to unify the old and the new, while resolving apparent... (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)
A Felt Sense: More Explorations of Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah
This book picks up where Michael Eigen's previous work, Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis, left off. It is based on two expanded transcriptions of seminars given for the New York University Postdoctoral... (more)
Freud and the Dora Case: A Promise Betrayed
Cesare Romano revisits Dora’s clinical case in light of Freud’s own seduction theory. His central thesis is that Freud failed to follow through with his initial proposition of confirming his theories... (more)
Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment
In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr Norman Straker proposes that death anxiety is responsible for the American society's failure to address costly... (more)
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families, and Schools
With the push toward accountability and test performance in schools there has been a decline in emphasis on creativity, imagination, and feelings in schools. Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working... (more)
Helping Men: A Psychoanalytic Approach
The authors do not specialize in, nor seek, patients with sexually deviant behavior. Occasionally, however, such patients have sought and received psychoanalytic treatment from them...As the authors... (more)
Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management
In this elegantly written book, eight distinguished psychoanalysts address the ubiquitous phenomenon of guilt. They describe the childhood experiences that form the bedrock of this emotion and... (more)
Depression as a Psychoanalytic Problem
Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders. This book investigates... (more)