Psychoanalysis Books
Hamlet in Analysis: Horatio's Story—A Trial of Faith
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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)
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)
Plurality and Perspective in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a historical discourse of suffering and healing under conditions of modernity rather than a metaphysical discourse of universal truth, and must be so due to the ontological... (more)
Freud and Utopia: From Cosmological Narcissism to the Soft Dictatorship of Reason
Though Freud never makes utopia the subject of any one work, this book is an attempt to tease out Freud's notion of utopia through examination of his group-psychology works such as The Future of an... (more)
Thinking Through Error: The Moving Target of Knowledge
The aim of Thinking through Error: The Moving Target of Knowledge is to describe knowledge as it works in our everyday attitude and behavior. Often in life, when making decisions and choices, we do... (more)
Neither Victim Nor Survivor: Thinking Toward a New Humanity
In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the interrelated concepts of victim and survivor as they have been... (more)
Karl Abraham: The Birth of Object Relations Theory
Together with Ferenczi, Karl Abraham was perhaps Freud’s most creative and devoted disciple. In this book, after outlining the socio-cultural context of the day, Isabel Sanfeliu examines Abraham’s... (more)
Psychoanalysis is An Antiphilosophy
Love, hate, slavery, torture, addiction and death – as this book shows, only psychoanalysis can speak well of such matters.
Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the... (more)
Further Learning from the Patient: The Analytic Space and Process: Second Edition
In Further Learning from the Patient, Patrick Casement stresses the value of 'internal supervision' which monitors clinical work from the patient's point of view as well as the therapist's. This... (more)
Transference and Countertransference Today
Why has Heinrich Racker's original work on transference and countertransference proven so valuable? With a passionate concern for the field created by the meeting of analyst and patient, and an... (more)
Sigmund Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: Conquistador and Thinker
Sigmund Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis explores links between Freud's development of his thinking and theory and his personal emotional journey. It follows his early career as a medical student,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film
This distinctively interdisciplinary approach to the subject encompasses filmmaking, psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and offers a unique insight into documentary film practice from a... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life: Ordinary Genius
Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life: Ordinary Genius is an attempt to create a psychoanalytic space for the quest and questions of our everyday creativity. Official creativity is normally... (more)
Marion Milner: The Life
Artist, poet, educationalist and autobiographer, Marion Milner is considered one of the most original of psychoanalytic thinkers whose life (1900-1998) spans a century of radical change. Marion... (more)
Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective: Second Edition
Is there are baby in the relational consulting room? How and when can/should we try to hold our patients? What happens to the analyst's subjectivity when she tries to hold? In Holding and... (more)
Leonardo da Vinci
Sigmund Freud was already internationally acclaimed as the father of psychoanalysis when he turned his attention to the life of Leonardo. The result is a unique introduction to some of Freud's... (more)
The Inner World of Doctor Who: Psychoanalytic Reflections in Time and Space
As Doctor Who approaches its fiftieth anniversary recent series have taken the show to new heights in terms of popular appeal and critical acclaim.The Doctor and his TARDIS-driven adventures, along... (more)
From Ultrasound to Army: The Unconscious Trajectories of Masculinity in Israel
Daring to gaze directly into the core of parenting in Israel, this book presents, for the first time, a study that focuses on the conscious and unconscious aspects of the Israeli parenting experience... (more)
The Evolution of Winnicott's Thinking: Examining the Growth of Psychoanalytic Thought Over Three Generations
What happens to the thinking of a thinker who refuses a discipleship? This book attempts to answer this question in relation to D. W. Winnicott and the evolution of his thinking. He eschewed a... (more)