Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalysis at the Limit: Epistemology, Mind, and the Question of Science
Psychoanalysis has long been charged as being a pseudoscience. This timely book explores and reexamines the nature of psychoanalysis within contemporary debates about science, epistemology,... (more)
The Freud Scenario
In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a script for a movie about Sigmund Freud. The Freud Scenario, found among Sartre's papers after his death, is the result. A fluent portrait of a... (more)
The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet
Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and... (more)
China on the Mind
Several thousand years ago Indo-European culture diverged into two ways of thinking; one went West, the other East. Tracing their differences, Christopher Bollas examines how these mentalities are... (more)
The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis
In The Violence of Emotions the author marries an ability to introduce the reader to the intimate climate of an analytic session with a passionate rereading of Bion. To emphasize both the empirical... (more)
Television and Psychoanalysis: Psycho-Cultural Perspectives
Despite the prominence of television in our everyday lives, psychoanalytic approaches to its significance and function are notoriously few and far between. This volume takes up perspectives from... (more)
How Does Analysis Cure?
The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of self-psychology, which sets aside the Freudian explanations for behavior and... (more)
Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis: Influential Theories and Practices in Healthy Child Development
In Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis Beatriz Markman Reubins presents the lives and theories of the early innovators of psychoanalytic theory as it is applied to child development - Sigmund Freud,... (more)
From Id to Intersubjectivity: Talking about the Talking Cure with Master Clinicians
Psychoanalysis has moved a long way from the techniques of classical psychoanalysis but these changes have not been understood or disseminated to the wider community. Even university scholars and... (more)
The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience
Whereas Freud himself viewed conscience as one of the functions of the superego, in The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience, Carveth argues that superego and... (more)
Making Spaces: Putting Psychoanalytic Thinking to Work
This book argues for the value and application of psychoanalytic thinking beyond, as well as within, the consulting room. Inspired by a Scottish psychoanalytic tradition that owes much to W.R.D.... (more)
Mutuality, Recognition, and the Self: Psychoanalytic Reflections
Mutuality, Recognition, and the Self examines emerging trends in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, highlighting intersubjective and relational models of the mind. It presents vivid and... (more)
A Spirit that Impels: Play, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis
This volume brings together some of the papers presented by leading scholars, artists and psychoanalysts at an annual Creativity Seminar organised by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center.... (more)
The Narcissistic Pursuit of Perfection: Revised Edition
This book views the role of narcissism in analytic theory beginning with the writings of Freud and examines the conceptual changes that occurred with the development of ego psychology and object... (more)
The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays
Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. Psychoanalysis assumes that creative writers have the... (more)
Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma: Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalytic Treatment, and the Dynamics of Forgiveness
The book combines for the first time attachment theory, regulation attachment therapy, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma, showing how the clinical therapeutic process of “going beyond... (more)
The Therapeutic Situation in the 21st Century
Extending the themes of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations, The Therapeutic Situation in the 21st Century is a systematic reformulation of fundamental psychoanalytic concepts, such as... (more)
Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion
In Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion, Lois Oppenheim illustrates the enhancement of self that creativity affords, the relationship of imagination to the self as agent. The premise of this book is... (more)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man: Psychoanalysis and Masculinity
Images and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. In this book, Donald Moss addresses the never-ending effort of men-regardless of sexual orientation-to shape themselves in relation... (more)
Reading Anna Freud
What place do Anna Freud's ideas have in the history of psychoanalysis? What can Anna Freud teach us today about how to work therapeutically with children? Are her psychoanalytic ideas still relevant... (more)
Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts: Romanticism and the Analytic Attitude
What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?
This book is about what Freud called freely or evenly suspended attention, a form of listening, a... (more)
Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand: An Integrative View of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction
Work with patients with severe neuroses very often has to cope with the phenomenon that every progress in the analytic or therapeutic work is followed paradoxically by a clinical deterioration. There... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich
During the 1930s and 1940s, European psychoanalysts held fast to their professional identities despite a profoundly destabilizing reality. From Budapest to Paris the Nazis disrupted the work of this... (more)
Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
How can we help and support people to face climate change? Engaging with Climate Change is the first book of its kind to explore in depth what climate change actually means to people. It is the first... (more)
A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis
Inspired by the progressive and humanistic origins of psychoanalysis, Lewis Aron and Karen Starr pursue Freud's call for a psychotherapy for the people. They present a cultural history that focuses... (more)
Death and Identity: Being and the Psycho-Sexual Drama
Michel de M’Uzan has derived several innovative notions from his clinical experience that are relevant not only for the psychoanalyst’s status of identity, which is sometimes dramatically shaken by... (more)
Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis: Critical Juxtapositions of the Philosophical, the Sociohistorical and the Political
Psychoanalysis, having been situated in the borders of natural and social sciences and humanities as well as at the crossroads of Romantic, Modern and Postmodern historical conditions, continues to... (more)
History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
The relationship between psychoanalysis and history is long-standing, productive and contentious. Psychoanalysis is a historical psychology, not just in its excavation of individual psychic... (more)
Why It Is Good to Be Good: Ethics, Kohut's Self Psychology and Modern Society
John H. Riker argues that modernity, by undermining traditional religious and metaphysical grounds for moral belief, has left itself no way to explain why it is personally good to be a morally good... (more)
The Total Transference and the Complete Counter-Transference: The Kleinian Psychoanalytic Approach with More Disturbed Patients
The book takes the reader "into the trenches" with the author as he describes his psychoanalytic work with a variety of patients with difficult and complex conditions. The reader becomes familiar... (more)