Psychoanalysis Books
On Freud's "On Beginning the Treatment"
Like his other papers on technique, Freud's 1913 essay "On beginning the treatment" had an enduring influence on psychoanalysts for generations to come, providing them with a solid and... (more)
Paradigms in Psychoanalysis: An Integration
This book aims at making explicit the scientific theories, termed paradigms, that the author has found useful in psychoanalysis. It lists nine paradigms: genetics, neurobiology, attachment theory,... (more)
A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Second Edition
A user-friendly introduction to arguably the most misunderstood of all the psychological therapies. This fully updated and revised second edition explains what psychoanalysis really is and provides... (more)
Ferenczi and His World: Rekindling the Spirit of the Budapest School
This volume honours Sandor Ferenczi, a central character in the birth of psychoanalysis, whose warm and passionate personality, ideas, and teachings permeate his world and his work, shaping... (more)
Sitegeist - Number 7 (Spring 2012) - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Sitegeist is a space for thinking and questioning philosophy and psychoanalysis; it aims at a change in Geist - spirit, mind, intellect, wit, genius and morale. It seeks to contribute to a renewal of... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Visual Artists
James W. Hamilton’s engaging book offers us his own unique insight into the unconscious factors involved in the creative processes associated with painting, filmmaking, and photography by studying... (more)
Distance Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Practice of Using Communication Technology in the Clinic
'Many analysts around the world have found themselves in a situation of continuing (or even beginning) psychoanalytic treatment from a distance - either by telephone or other means of communication.... (more)
Freud's Lost Chord: Discovering Jazz in the Resonant Psyche
In Freud's Lost Chord, Dan Sapen explores what it means for the development of depth psychology that Freud was perplexed by music, and unlike nearly every other aspect of human life, had little to... (more)
A Clinical Application of Bion's Concepts: Volume 2: Analytic Function and the Function of the Analyst
'In this magisterial work Paulo Sandler continues to distinguish himself as a foremost scholar on the works of Bion. Already well known for his encyclopedic zeal, this present book continues... (more)
The Primordial Mind in Health and Illness: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
The universal quest to create cosmologies -- to comprehend the relationship between mind and world - is inevitably limited by the social, cultural and historical perspective of the observer, in this... (more)
World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis
Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective - intersubjective-systems theory - is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as... (more)
Why Things Matter: The Place of Values in Science, Psychoanalysis and Religion
In this book, David M. Black asks questions such as why do we care? and what gives our values power? using ideas from psychoanalysis and its adjacent sciences such as neuroscience and evolutionary... (more)
The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice
Utilizing the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, The Suffering Stranger invigorates the conversation between psychoanalysis and philosophy, demonstrating how each... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 5: Evolution of Process
Building on the success and importance of three previous volumes, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to expand and develop the relational turn. Under the keen editorship of Lewis Aron and Adrienne... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 4: Expansion of Theory
Building on the success and importance of three previous volumes, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to expand and develop the relational turn. Under the keen editorship of Lewis Aron and Adrienne... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos: Complexity Theory, Deleuze/Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis
This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring... (more)
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)
An Experiment in Leisure
What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going and what our world is all about? Written in 1936 as a companion piece to A Life of One's Own, An... (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)
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)
Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation
Thinking psychoanalytically about the nature of social exclusion involves a self-questioning on the part of the interpreter. While we may all have some experiences of having been subject to... (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)
The Social Nature of Persons: One Person is No Person
Group analysis developed out of psychoanalysis, but kept the fundamental principles of the latter. The classical structural theory of the personality comprises the id that is an ego-centred instinct,... (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)
Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Perversions, Violence, and Criminality
Estela Welldon brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking-and sometimes explosive-studies of female sexuality and... (more)