Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
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)