Psychoanalysis Books
Secret Passages: The Theory and Technique of Interpsychic Relations
Secret Passages provides a theoretical and clinical exploration of the field of psychoanalysis. It looks at the pivotal relationship between analyst and client and its importance to the... (more)
Object Relations in Depression: A Return to Theory
This book examines the role of British object relations theory in order to explore our understanding and treatment of depression. It challenges current conceptualizations of depression while... (more)
The Journey of Child Development: Selected Papers of Joseph D. Noshpitz
As founder and past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and president of the American Association of Childrens Residential Centers, Joseph Noshpitz was at the... (more)
How to Talk to a Borderline
Joan Lachkar introduces Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and outlines the challenges and difficulties it presents to clinicians. She expands current understanding of BPD by outlining eight... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems: A New Look
Introduced in Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989) and further developed in Self and Motivational Systems (1992), The Clinical Exchange (1996), and A Spirit of Inquiry (2002), motivational systems... (more)
Invention in the Real: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne: Volume 24
The Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, Volume 24 give testament to that quasi - suicidal risk taken by analysts and members of the school, in applying, not a technique, but the Freudian... (more)
The Clinic and the Context: Historical Essays
This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 's papers ranging from 'Psychoanalysis and Social Democracy', 'Civilization and its Dream of Contentment',... (more)
The Search for the Self: Volume 4: Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981
'The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis.... (more)
The Search for the Self: Volume 3: Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981
'The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis.... (more)
The Search for the Self: Volume 2: Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981
'The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis.... (more)
The Search for the Self: Volume 1: Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1950-1978
'The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis.... (more)
Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations
A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience - what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable - falls out of social discourse, but... (more)
Is There a Cure for Masculinity?
Have you ever wondered?
* Why it's so hard to get close to a man.
* Why don't men express emotions except big ones like anger and frustration?
* Why most perversion is male; why most... (more)
Freud: A Guide for the Perplexed
It is widely acknowledged that Freud was one of the most influential and groundbreaking theorists of the twentieth century. His theories permeate almost every aspect of modern-day life: literature,... (more)
Persons in Context: The Challenge of Individuality in Theory and Practice
In contemporary forms of psychoanalysis, particularly intersubjective systems theory, the turn towards contextualism has permitted the development of new ways of thinking and practicing that have... (more)
Parents and Toddlers in Groups: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Approach
This book explores how psychoanalytic principles can be applied when working with parents and toddlers in groups. Illustrated with lively observations, it discusses how these parent-toddler groups... (more)
Psyche and Brain: The Biology of Talking Cures
'There is a sea change afoot in contemporary psychoanalysis and this brilliant volume is a manifesto of it. When brain science and clinical psychoanalysis are put on exactly equal conceptual footing... (more)
The Modern Kleinian Approach to Psychoanalytic Technique: Clinical Illustrations
The Modern Kleinian Approach to Psychoanalytic Technique: Clinical Illustrations describes how today's practitioner typically treats a number of types of very disturbed and hard-to-reach patients... (more)
Another Kind of Evidence: Studies on Internalization, Annihilation Anxiety, and Progressive Symbolization in the Psychoanalytic Process
In our current professional climate, with calls for 'evidenced-based treatment', and in light of the prestige accorded to this emblem, we can ask: for what purpose do we seek evidence? For our... (more)
Old Testament Stories with a Freudian Twist
This collection of Leo Abse's last essays are writings that he was working on from 2006 up to and during his final illness. They take as their starting point stories from the Old Testament. For Abse,... (more)
Revenge: On the Dynamics of a Frightening Urge and its Taming
The authors' aim in this book is to focus on revenge as a neglected and insufficiently understood psychological mechanism in a broad spectrum ranging from the many and varied revenge acts of everyday... (more)
The Enigma of the Suicide Bomber: A Psychoanalytic Essay
Why does someone resolve to take his own life in order to murder other people? What is the state of mind which allows him to commit such a monstrous act?
This book explores the mental state that... (more)
The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories: Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis
The normal approach to the study of the foundations of psychoanalysis is to focus on Sigmund Freud's classical texts. In this book, however, Vesa Talvitie approaches the issue from the perspective of... (more)
The Myth of Mental Illness
By diagnosing behaviour problems as mental illness, this book argues that psychiatry absolves the individual of responsibility for his actions, placing blame instead on the illness. It also argues... (more)
Education - An 'Impossible Profession'?: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Learning and Classrooms
In classrooms and lectures we learn not only about academic topics but also about ourselves, our peers and how people and ideas interact. Education - An 'Impossible Profession'? extends the ways in... (more)
Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas: Psychoanalysis, History, Memoir
In our post-9/11 environment, our sense of relative security and stability as privileged subjects living in the heart of Empire has been profoundly shaken. Hollander explores the forces that have... (more)
The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field
The Intimate Room provides an original exploration of psychoanalytic thought, showing how contemporary psychoanalysis seeks to answer the challenges raised by today's post-modern culture. Offering a... (more)
A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement
The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither... (more)
From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After
Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Paediatrics: Key Psychoanalytic Concepts with Sixteen Clinical Observations of Children
This book is Françoise Dolto’s 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psychoanalysis. Françoise Dolto’s aim was to... (more)