Psychoanalysis Books
The Tavistock Model: Papers on Child Development and Psychoanalytic Training
This is one of a new two volume edition of Collected Papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick, which includes some papers not published in the first edition. The companion volume, Adolescence, by... (more)
Three Papers of W.R. Bion
Three Papers of W.R. Bion features two previously unpublished papers and one which has only previously appeared in The Complete Works of W. R. Bion (2014). Characterised by Bion's directness, clarity... (more)
The Claustrum: An Investigation of Claustrophobic Phenomena
Using the Kleinian concept of projective-identification, with special reference to intrusive identification with internal objects, this work examines claustrophobic phenomena and its relations to the... (more)
Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue
Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is... (more)
Making Death Thinkable
The author explores how different psychoanalytic theories have addressed the issue of death, its presence or absence in the unconscious, as well as the implications of the theories of the death... (more)
The Greening of Psychoanalysis: André Green's New Paradigm in Contemporary Theory and Practice
The influence of André Green on psychoanalysis has been immeasurable - his theoretical, clinical and cultural contributions have identified him as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of... (more)
Sex Now, Talk Later
Sex matters. It is a crucial part of whom we are and what to do. So why do we police what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘bizarre’? As Estela Welldon argues in this insightful book, whenever we disapprove... (more)
Reclaiming Unlived Life: Experiences in Psychoanalysis
In Reclaiming Unlived Life, influential psychoanalyst Thomas Ogden uses rich clinical examples to illustrate how different types of thinking may promote or impede analytic work. With a unique style... (more)
Imaginary Existences: Dream, Daydream, Phantasy, Fiction
Imaginary Existences interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and... (more)
Symbiosis and Ambiguity: A Psychoanalytic Study
Symbiosis and Ambiguity is the first English edition of the classic study of early object relations by influential Argentinian psychoanalyst Jose Bleger (1922-1972). It is rooted in Kleinian thinking... (more)
The New Klein-Lacan Dialogues
This book provides a timely exploration and comparison of key concepts in the theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, two thinkers and clinicians whose influence over the development of... (more)
The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Work in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach... (more)
Projective Identification: The Fate of a Concept
Elizabeth Spillius and Edna O'Shaughnessy explore the development of the concept of projective identification, which had important antecedents in the work of Freud and others, but was given a... (more)
On Not Being Able to Paint
Milner's great study, first published in 1950, discusses the nature of creativity and those forces which prevent its expression. In focusing on her own beginners efforts to draw and paint, she... (more)
Growing Old: A Journey of Self-Discovery
People react very differently to the process of ageing. Some people shy away from old age for as long as they can and eventually spend it reflecting on times when they were physically and mentally... (more)
Consultations in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
In the course of addressing the challenges of conducting assessment consultations in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, this book engages with many technical as well as theoretical issues. It includes ... (more)
Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference
Racism's external forms, from racial assault to petty discrimination, are readily recognized. However, its internal dimensions are easily overlooked: how can we understand what happens in the mind of... (more)
Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Tradition: Interpretation and Other Psychoanalytic Issues
This collection proposes that using Winnicott's work to think about themes of importance to practitioners now is also a way of thinking about some of the present preoccupations of psychoanalysis. How... (more)
The Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique
A revised and updated edition of this recent classic, including new material on insight and early development, amongst others. Within each subject, the author presents the theories and observations... (more)
Reading Freud: A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings
Reading Freudiprovides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psychoanalysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's... (more)
The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma
This book is an edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written by clinicians in the field of trauma. The text offers a psychoanalytic perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic functioning.... (more)
Words That Touch: A Psychoanalyst Learns to Speak
In her attempt to find the words that touch, Danielle Quinodoz gives a succession of illuminating examples to indicate what a psychoanalyst and her patient may experience in the transference... (more)
Kleinian Theory: A Contemporary Perspective
This book aims to present an account of the main theoretical concepts in Kleinian theory as they have been postulated by Melanie Klein, together with newer developments and formulations inspired by... (more)
Fairbairn and the Origins of Object Relations
This work brings together the work of the most eminent of Fairbairn's followers. It includes sections on child abuse, infant development, and borderline and narcissistic disorders. Contributors... (more)
Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context
Melanie Klein left Germany in 1926 and settled in London where she soon quarrelled with Anna Freud. Klein pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of... (more)
Ordinary People and Extra-ordinary Protections: A Post-Kleinian Approach to the Treatment of Primitive Mental States
This text investigates the development and function of "extra-ordinary protections", created to keep at bay any awareness of deeply traumatic happenings occurring at some point in life. The study... (more)
The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green
This collection of essays explores the concept of the "dead mother" which refers to the process of mourning that takes place in the child following maternal depression, when the child experiences the... (more)
Internal Objects Revisited
The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of transference... (more)
Narrative Of A Child Analysis
Klein provides the reader with a picture of her work with ten-year-old Richard. Keeping notes of each session, she was able to describe the day-to-day course of the analysis, interpreting Richard's... (more)
Envy And Gratitude
Melanie Klein's writings, particularly on infant development and psychosis, have been crucial both to theoretical work and to clinical practice. Envy and Gratitude collects her writings from 1946... (more)