Psychoanalysis Books
Loneliness and Longing: Conscious and Unconscious Aspects
We all experience loneliness at some time in our lives and it often motivates people, consciously or otherwise, to enter treatment. Yet it is rarely explicitly addressed in psychoanalytic literature.... (more)
Insight: Essays on Psychoanalytic Knowing
This book explores the clinical processes of psychoanalysis by charting modern developments in logic and applying them to the study of insight. Offering an epistemic approach to clinical... (more)
Eternity's Sunrise: A Way of Keeping a Diary
Following on from A Life of One's Own and An Experiment in Leisure, Eternity's Sunrise explores Marion Milner's way of keeping a diary. Recording small private moments, she builds up a store of bead... (more)
Avoiding Emotions, Living Emotions
Avoiding Emotions, Living Emotions explores the psychoanalytic encounter and examines how emotions are formed and experienced by both the patient and analyst. The author narrates key theoretical... (more)
Change in Psychoanalysis: An Analyst's Reflections on the Therapeutic Relationship
In this clinically rich and deeply personal book, Chris Jaenicke demonstrates that the therapeutic process involves change in both the patient and the analyst, and that therapy will not have a... (more)
Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-philosophical Analysis
In Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis, Linda Brakel tackles a range of fascinating and puzzling phenomena that lie at the border between psychoanalysis and... (more)
Contemporary Developments in Adult and Young Adult Therapy: The Work of the Tavistock and Portman Clinics: Volume 1
'Nature dictates that as individuals we are conceived, are born, and then at some point later die. The shape of the arc that we follow, involving growth and development with eventual decline, is... (more)
Envy is Not Innate: A New Model of Thinking
This book is a comprehensive revision of the notion of envy, suggesting that envy is not innate and proposing some fresh ideas about its relation to psychopathology. Its argument is that envy is not... (more)
With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories
This is a new kind of anthology. More conversation than collection, it locates the psychic and the social in clinical moments illuminating the analyst's struggle to grasp a patient's internal life as... (more)
Eigen in Seoul: Volume 2: Faith and Transformation
This book is a transcription of a three day, eighteen hour seminar Eigen gave in Seoul in 2009. It takes forward and complements the Seoul seminar in 2007 (Eigen in Seoul: Volume 1: Madness and... (more)
What Will You Do With My Story?
Psychoanalyst Elizabeth Meakins uses her popular columns from The Independent to explore the therapeutic process. Successful analysis, she argues, is less about following pre-formulated theory and... (more)
Enduring Migration through the Life Cycle
Migration in recent years has resulted in major conflicts in all aspects of society. This book addresses the psychological response to migration and explores the emotional response to both the change... (more)
Sexuality and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Criticisms
The relationship between sexuality and psychoanalysis can be described in terms of an old and stormy love affair. The same can be said about the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy. It... (more)
Toward Mutual Recognition: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Christian Narrative
Ever since its nascent days, psychoanalysis has enjoyed an uneasy coexistence with religion. However, in recent decades, many analysts have been more interested in the healing potential of both... (more)
Memory, Myth, and Seduction: Unconscious Fantasy and the Interpretive Process
Memory, Myth, and Seduction reveals the development and evolution of Jean-Georges Schimek's thinking on unconscious fantasy and the interpretive process derived from a close reading of Freud as well... (more)
Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious: An Integration of Freudian, Kleinian and Bionian Perspectives
Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious looks at how the minds of the therapist and the patient interact with each other in a profound and unconscious way: a concept first described by Freud.... (more)
From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique and Integration
The landscape of psychoanalysis has changed, at times dramatically, in the hundred or so years since Freud first began to think and write about it. Freudian theory and concepts have risen, fallen,... (more)
The Mirror Crack'd: When Good Enough Therapy Goes Wrong and Other Cautionary Tales for the Humanistic Practitioner
Revised edition. This title is as a wake-up call to take seriously the climate in which mental health professionals practice in which complaints and civil actions against psychotherapists and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine
In this pioneering volume, Peter L. Rudnytsky and Rita Charon bring together distinguished contributors from medicine, psychoanalysis, and literature to explore the multiple intersections between... (more)
Unusual Interventions: Alterations of the Frame, Method, and Relationship in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Radical departures from the set and familiar rules of technique often become necessary in the course of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. These can include conducting a session outside the office,... (more)
Landscapes of the Dark: History, Trauma, Psychoanalysis
In this important new collection of essays, Jonathan Sklar argues that the founding tension between Freud's commitment to interpretation and Ferenczi's extra parameter of 'being in the experience'... (more)
Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher
Recasting Freud as an inspired humanist and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form of moral inquiry, this title argues that Freudianism offers a rich approach to self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the... (more)
Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism
Sociological explanations of racism tend to concentrate on the structures and dynamics of modern life that facilitate discrimination and hierarchies of inequality. In doing so, they often fail to... (more)
The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis
From its peculiar birth in Freud's self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk... (more)
Disciplining Freud on Religion
It is well known that in formulating his general theoretical framework and views on religion Freud drew on multiple disciplines within the natural and social sciences, as well as from the humanities.... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Theism: Critical Reflections on the Grunbaum Thesis
How should we approach the psychological study of religion, and how relevant is classical psychoanalysis, identified with the writings of Sigmund Freud, to the understanding of religion? Freud's... (more)
Freud's Foes: Psychoanalysis, Science, and Resistance
Freud's Foes addresses Freud's fiercest contemporary critics. Kurt Jacobsen defends psychoanalysis, while accepting that it has inherent flaws. He argues that although today's "foes" pose as daring... (more)
100 Years of the IPA: The Centenary History of the International Psychoanalytical Association 1910-2010: Evolution and Change
This book offers a close glimpse of the nuanced dialectic between major psychoanalytic concepts and the sociopolitical environments in which such ideas were germinated, spread, took roots, and... (more)
Freud and Education
he concept of education - its dangers and promises and its illusions and revelations - threads throughout Sigmund Freud's body of work. This introductory volume by psychoanalytic authority, Deborah... (more)
Masculine Shame: From Succubus to the Eternal Feminine
How does the image of the succubus relate to psychoanalytic thought? Masculine Shame: From Succubus to the Eternal Feminine explores the idea that the image of the succubus, a demonic female creature... (more)