Psychoanalysis Books
Animal Killer: Transmission of War Trauma From One Generation to the Next
A psychoanalytic process from its beginning to its termination is described to illustrate crucial technical issues in the treatment of individuals with narcissistic personality organization and the... (more)
Who's Behind the Couch?: The Heart and Mind of the Psychoanalyst
What is it like to be a working psychoanalyst? And what is it like to be held in the mind of one? These were the questions that led Winer and Malawista to interview seventeen notable analysts from... (more)
Ferenczi and Beyond: Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years
This book explores how the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis took shape, and in particular examines the role played in it by Sándor Ferenczi, Freud’s closest friend and associate. It asks what the... (more)
Attachment Theory
Six-Volume set. From its origins in the 1950s with the work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, Attachment Theory has expanded over the ensuing half century to become a central psychobiological... (more)
The Realisation of Concepts: Infinity, Cognition, and Health
There has recently been a flurry of theoretical activity in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis. This book argues that the ability to integrate biological and psychological levels of... (more)
Sources of Suffering: Fear, Greed, Guilt, Deception, Betrayal, and Revenge
This concise and well-written book deals with six important roots of human anguish. It divides the six areas into those primarily affecting the individual and those primarily affecting others around... (more)
Fear: A Dark Shadow Across Our Life Span
Beginning with Freud’s celebrated case of Little Hans, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have been intrigued with the topic of fear. Eclipsed in theoretical writings by the term ‘anxiety’, fear... (more)
Mind, Culture, and Global Unrest: Psychoanalytic Reflections
In this compact and pithy book, the distinguished and prolific psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar steps out of his consulting room to address certain matters of urgent global concern. These include... (more)
The Necessary Dream: New Theories and Techniques of Interpretation in Psychoanalysis
After a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls "the films of our lives" still the royal road to the unconscious or do... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Monotheism and Morality: The Sigmund Freud Museum Symposia 2009-2011
In this volume renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, in particular presenting various controversial interpretations of the question if... (more)
Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis
Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of... (more)
Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America
"Psychology has stepped down from the university chair into the marketplace" was how the New York Times put it in 1926. Another commentator in 1929 was more biting. "Psychoanalysis", he said, "had,... (more)
A Practical Casebook of Time-limited Psychoanalytic Work: A Modern Kleinian Approach
Modern Kleinian Therapy is a model of effective psychoanalytic work that offers relief to deep internal conflicts by establishing and maintaining analytic contact, and beginning to unravel, modify,... (more)
Wrestling with Destiny: The Promise of Psychoanalysis
Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies? Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which... (more)
Play: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Survival and Human Development: A Cross-Disciplinary Study
Is play only a children's activity? How is the spontaneous play of adults expressed? What is the difference between play and game? What function does play have during war? Play: Psychoanalytic... (more)
The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep: A Relational Approach to Internalized Perpetration in Complex Trauma Survivors (Hardback Edition)
The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and... (more)
The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change
The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change takes a fresh look at the many forms of unconscious communication that take place in the analytic situation. Bringing together two decades of... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Vision: The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and the Therapeutic Process
Psychoanalytic therapy is distinguished by its immersion in the world of the experiencing subject. In The Psychoanalytic Vision, Frank Summers argues that analytic therapy and its unique epistemology... (more)
Sibling Matters: A Psychoanalytic, Developmental, and Systemic Approach
This original book gives a timely exploration of the importance of sibling relationships from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It presents for the first time an account of the work on brothers and... (more)
Attachment and Psychoanalysis: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications
Although attachment theory was originally rooted in psychoanalysis, theory and research in each area have developed quite independently. This incisive book explores ways in which attachment theory... (more)
Theory of Psychoanalytical Practice: A Relational Process Approach
This book makes an original contribution to the study of the psychoanalytic process from a relational point of view, and at the same time serves as a textbook on the theory of technique. It provides... (more)
The First Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: A Gift for Sigmund Freud's 80th Birthday
This is a new translation of the classic 1932 Dictionary by Dr Richard Sterba, for which Freud wrote a Preface praising the "precision and correctness" of Sterba's work and calling it a "fine... (more)
Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients: Psychoanalysis as Transitional Space
Winnicott’s thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today. This book can be described as a clinical primer: by presenting her own personal responses to Winnicott and her initial... (more)
Cleft Tongue: The Language of Psychic Structures
Cleft Tongue is an attempt to analyse psychic language and its diverse modes of expression, both within psychic structure and in the interpersonal realm. It begins by looking at two basic forms of... (more)
Anxiety and Personality: The Concept of a Directing Object and its Applications
The concept of a "directing object" is based on extensive clinical observations linked to a combination of ego psychology and object relations theory in the tradition of Otto Kernberg and Anne Marie... (more)
On Freud's "A Child is Being Beaten"
Presents a classic essay by Sigmund Freud, followed by discussions that set Freud's work in context and demonstrate its contemporary relevance. The contributors to this volume represent diverse... (more)
Reshaping the Self: Reflections on Renewal Through Therapy
We are organized around the double coordinates of mind-body and self-other, says author Michael Eigen. The story of therapy is, in part, the story of how the unconscious sense of self-other and... (more)
The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory has deeply affected how we think of ourselves, in emphasizing the limits of consciousness and the impact of irrational forces on our behavior. Philosophers have... (more)
The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein on Language as Bewitchment and Clarity
One of Freud's central claims is that our words and actions reveal unrecognised confusions lying at the heart of our relationships with others and the world. Taking Freud at his word and sharing his... (more)
Interpretive Voices: Responding to Patients
The contributions in this book exemplify ways in which different analysts think about and treat the issue of interpretation, illustrating the distinctiveness with which an analyst expresses his or... (more)