Psychoanalysis Books
Reading Bion’s Transformations
Reading Bion´s Transformations is an in-depth reading of Bion’s 1965 work, Transformations, and investigates the epitemiological concept of "O" introduced by Bion.
Throughout the book, Bion’s... (more)
Foucault Versus Freud: Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality
In Foucault Versus Freud, Jerome C. Wakefield offers a novel analysis of one of the great intellectual clashes of our times, the attack on Sigmund Freud's influential sexual theories by the eminent... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore, miss or sidestep? What factors, personal, social, political, inform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic... (more)
The Emerging Tradition of Hans Loewald
Alongside its companion volume, The Legacy and Promise of Hans Loewald, this book addresses the current lack of familiarity with the ideas and life of the eminent psychoanalytic teacher and scholar,... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo
A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo proposes a new perspective on narcissism, focusing on its destructive impact within... (more)
The Story of Original Loss: Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis
This book explores the universal human existential trauma of "original loss," a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyses the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference is characterised by ongoing transformations of spatiality and body, and of... (more)
Recognising, Understanding and Treating Nameless States: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
In this captivating volume, Bernd Nissen considers the multiplicity of nameless states, and the impact of their discovery on psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The nameless is considered... (more)
Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures
John Forrester's passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his students at the University of Cambridge, his range... (more)
The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil: Supervisions and Commentaries
The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil is comprised of thirteen transcriptions of supervisions Wilfred Bion conducted during his three teaching and speaking tours of Brazil.
During these... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality: A Contemporary Introduction
This important book examines the ways in which same sex desire, or "homosexuality" has been theorised by psychoanalysis during its history to date and the impact of that on clinical... (more)
Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession: Prestige TV and the Contradictions of the Liberal Class
Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions of uppermiddle-class political... (more)
A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis: Erasing Trauma
A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis returns us to the birth of psychoanalysis and the trauma of castration that is its umbilicus.
The story told in this book centers on the genital... (more)
Prenatal Bonding Analysis: The Invisible Umbilical Cord
This book presents a novel psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic method which enables expectant mothers to establish communication with their unborn babies.
After an exploration of the root... (more)
Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This anthology of interviews and essays joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of feminism to provide a timely analysis of the crushing effects of patriarchy and the role that... (more)
Bion and Intuition in the Clinical Setting
Bion and Intuition in the Clinical Setting focuses on Bion’s investigation of the intuitive approach to clinical data and lays out how Bion’s method encouraged constant effort by the analysts to... (more)
The Omnipotent State of Mind: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This book presents an examination and exploration of the concept of omnipotence, its qualities and expression as a psychic state, its origins in the psyche and its appearance in the psychoanalytic... (more)
The Jouissance Principle: Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious
This book examines the concept of jouissance, a Lacanian term that refers to enjoyment experienced in different ways, from the enjoyment taken in an action that is ethically disapproved to the hidden... (more)
Catalepsy, Memory and Suggestion in Psychological Automatism: Total Automatism
Pierre Janet's L'Automatisme psychologique, originally published in 1889, is one of the earliest and most important books written on the study of trauma and dissociation. Here it is made available,... (more)
The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today
The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today demonstrates the concept of the Infantile, first proposed almost a quarter of a century ago, and the ways in which it has become an indispensable tool... (more)
Jungian Analysts Working Across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation
Jungian Analysts Working Across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation gives a fascinating account of the wide variety of experiences of Jungian analysts working in different cultures across the... (more)
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life
This book argues that the notion of 'wild' analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic notions, diagnoses, and treatment by an individual who has not undergone... (more)
Psychoanalytic Insights into Social, Political, and Organizational Dynamics: Understanding the Age of Trump
This fascinating interdisciplinary work explores U.S. politics since 2015 and offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United... (more)
The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
'Whiteness' is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications... (more)
A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics
A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics explores how empathy once shaped the collective unconscious, before being replaced by rampant individualistic drive to... (more)
Emotional Communication and Therapeutic Change: Understanding Psychotherapy Through Multiple Code Theory
In this book, Wilma Bucci applies her skills as a cognitive psychologist and researcher to the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, opening up new avenues for understanding the underlying... (more)
Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis: Clinical Perspectives on Muriel Dimen’s Concept of the “Primal Crime”
Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen (1942-2016), a prominent feminist anthropologist and relational psychoanalyst, Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis challenges... (more)
Winnicott and Kohut on Intersubjectivity and Complex Disorders: New Perspectives for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychiatry
Given the complexity of scientific developments inside and outside the psychoanalytic field, traditional definitions of basic psychoanalytic notions are no longer sufficiently comprehensive. We need... (more)
Accessing the Clinical Genius of Winnicott: A Careful Rendering of Winnicott`s Twelve Most Influential Clinical Papers
Donald Winnicott, psychoanalyst and pediatrician, is viewed by many in the psychodynamic field as the “other genius” in the history of psychodynamic theory and practice, along with Freud. This book... (more)
Nothing to It: Reading Freud as a Philosopher
The special role of psychoanalysis in the development of phenomenology.
The confrontation between philosophy and psychoanalysis has had its heyday. After the major debates between Paul Ricoeur,... (more)