Psychoanalysis Books
Century of Insight: The Twentieth Century Enlightenment of the Mind
This is the story of the discovery of the unconscious mind. Beginning with the ideas of Freud and Jung, it is a journey that describes through case histories, explanation and humour, how successive... (more)
The Psychology of the Person
This new title, from a distinguished psychoanalyst, will inspire both those in the psychoanalytic field, and the general reader.
‘In this book I attempt to sketch out a "Psychology of the... (more)
A Clinical Application of Bion's Concepts: Volume 3: Verbal and Visual Approaches to Reality
The final book in the three-volume series, A Clinical Application of Bion’s Concepts – a practical companion to the dictionary of concepts The Language of Bion - is divided in four main parts. Part... (more)
Waiting To Be Found: Papers on Children in Care
This book is about children in State care and its title – Waiting to be Found – is derived from an observation about such children by the child psychotherapist Hamish Canham.
In one of his... (more)
The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives
Otto Kernberg is a towering figure in the field of psychoanalysis and has accomplished seminal work in object relations and the treatment of borderline and narcissistic patients. This volume collects... (more)
The Analysis of Failure: An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis don't always work. Inevitably, a therapy or analysis may fail to alleviate the suffering of the patient. The reasons why this occurs are as manifold as the patients... (more)
The Abyss of Madness
Despite the many ways in which the so-called psychoses can become manifest, they are ultimately human events arising out of human contexts. As such, they can be understood in an intersubjective... (more)
Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice
In her latest book, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality, Nancy Chodorow examines the complexity and uniqueness of each person's personal creation of sexuality and gender and the ways that these... (more)
Anteros: A Forgotten Myth
Anteros: A Forgotten Myth explores how the myth of Anteros disappears and reappears throughout the centuries, from classical Athens to the present day, and looks at how the myth challenges the work... (more)
Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
How can one overcome deeply-held resentment so as to resume or establish a bond with a traumatizing person, mindful that the experience of the self is rooted in the very intimate relationships from... (more)
Elements of Self-Destruction
Why are humans, who are motivated by self-preservation, also motivated to engage in behaviors that threaten and even extinguish their existence? The present work has given thought to this question... (more)
The Triumphant Victim: A Psychoanalytical Perspective on Sadomasochism and Perverse Thinking
Most people have some idea of the meaning of the words sadism and masochism, but often this does not go beyond rather vague ideas of either inflicting or enjoying pain. Few people ask themselves what... (more)
Taking the Transference, Reaching Toward Dreams: Clinical Studies in the Intermediate Area
"One of the aims of this game is to reach to the child's ease and so to his fantasy and so to his dreams.” What a lovely description of an easy interplay between two people, leading to the... (more)
In Search of the Spiritual: Gabriel Marcel, Psychoanalysis and the Sacred
Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly... (more)
Freud in Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity
Freud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this ground-breaking study psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis,... (more)
Thought Paralysis: The Virtues of Discrimination
Given the enormous struggles, efforts and money expended on the equalities enterprise, why has more progress not been made? And further, why have things actually become worse in some circumstances?... (more)
Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life: Fourth Edition
The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of... (more)
Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis
‘"Vital signs" are, of course, the basic physiological measures of functioning which health practitioners use to assess the gravity of a patient’s predicament. This anthology focuses not so much on... (more)
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the... (more)
Bringing Up Baby: The Psychoanalytic Infant Comes of Age
This is an important text that synthesises diverse literatures and theories on infant development into a coherent framework that illuminates the essence of infancy for all those who have infants,... (more)
Shamans and Analysts: New Insights on the Wounded Healer
Shamans and Analysts provides a model by which to understand the wounded healer phenomenon. It provides evidence as to how this dynamic arises and gives a theoretical model by which to understand it,... (more)
New Ideas About Eating Disorders: Human Emotions and the Hunger Drive
In this book, Charles Stewart discusses how the positive affects of the life instinct such as interest and joy, and the crisis affects such as fear, anguish, rage, shame and contempt, condition and... (more)
The Shadow of the Tsunami: and the Growth of the Relational Mind
During early development, every human being is exposed to the relative impact of relational trauma - disconfirmation of aspects of oneself as having legitimate existence in the world of others - in... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: Advances in Theory and Practice
The Gestalt approach is based on the philosophy that the human being is born with the healthy ability to regulate needs and wants in relationship with the environment in which she/he lives.... (more)
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: Working on Identity and Selves
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity provides psychoanalytic insights into dissociation, in particular dissociative identity disorder (DID), and offers a variety of responses to the questions of... (more)
Deprivation and Delinquency
An invaluable compilation of D.W. Winnicott's papers, talks, letters and lectures between 1930 and 1970, centred on the theme of the relationship between antisocial behaviour, or more chronically... (more)
Experiencing Psychosis: Personal and Professional Perspectives
Extensive scientific research has been conducted into understanding and learning more about psychotic experiences. However, in existing research the voice of subjective experience is rarely taken... (more)
A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Therapy
Ringstrom's relational approach to couples therapy is based on three themes: actualization of self-experience in the context of a committed, long-term intimate relationship; mutual recognition of... (more)
The Hidden Freud: His Hassidic Roots
This book explores Sigmund Freud and his Jewish roots and demonstrates the input of the Jewish mystical tradition into Western culture via psychoanalysis. It shows in particular how the ideas of... (more)
Why I Hate You and You Hate Me: The Interplay of Envy, Greed, Jealousy and Narcissism in Everyday Life
‘Man’ himself is the source of the dark forces against which he is constantly struggling. The book shows how is possible to transcend this basic malice by knowing how, what, why and when it arises.... (more)