Psychoanalysis Books
Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision
In his latest groundbreaking book, Peter L. Rudnytsky examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted... (more)
Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process
'Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process is a rare book. It is lively and interesting, lucid, and yet profound. It succeeds where many other recent attempts to provide new insight about... (more)
A Dangerous Legacy: Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement
On 23rd July 1908 Sigmund Freud wrote to his colleague Karl Abraham: "Rest assured that if my name were Oberhuber [an obviously non-Jewish name], in spite of everything my innovations would have met... (more)
Psycho-Analytic Explorations
This volume contains ninety-two works by this renowned writer, theoretician, and clinician. Includes critiques of Melanie Klein's ideas and insights into the works of other leading psychoanalysts,... (more)
Guide to Psychoanalytic Developmental Theories
The influence of psychoanalytic theories of development was profound and still resonates in the thinking and practice of mental health professionals. This title provides an overview of what these... (more)
Obsession: A History
We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in... (more)
Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question
What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical... (more)
For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of... (more)
Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities
More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest... (more)
The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues
More than a psychiatric or spiritual condition, trauma is an experience that exceeds the capacity of language to fix and settle it. As trauma crosses the lives of individuals and erupts into cultural... (more)
Maimonides' Cure of Souls: Medieval Precursor of Psychoanalysis
Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud. Is Moses Maimonides an unacknowledged ancestor of the psychoanalytic movement?... (more)
A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living
Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called the art of living. How are our lives meaningful? What is the relationship of loss to creativity? How can... (more)
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies. Esther Rashkin argues that psychoanalysis galvanizes, as no other... (more)
Play and Power
The power of play, so central to psychoanalytic theory and practice, is conjoined to the social psychological or socio-politically coloured concept of power, giving rise to many fruitful discussions... (more)
Freud on a Precipice: How Freud's Fate Pushed Psychoanalysis Over the Edge
This book is a psychoanalytic detective story that takes the reader back to the late 1890's and to the generally unappreciated, yet single most important, turning point in the history of... (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)
Primitive Mental States: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Origins of Meaning
Traditional psychoanalysis relies on the presence of certain meaning-making capacities in the patient for its effectiveness. Primitive Mental States examines how particular capacities including those... (more)
Object Relations, Work and the Self
This book applies psychoanalytic object relations theory to understanding work motivation and the meaning of work. Drawing on the writings of authors such as Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg and... (more)
The Work of Psychoanalysts in the Public Health Sector
Offers an insight into the ways in which psychoanalysts think and work with various client groups. This book explores how psychoanalytically-informed work can be used with other treatment methods,... (more)
The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens: Second Revised Edition
This text challenges readers to rethink attitudes about psychoanalytic definition and boundary. The author argues that psychoanalytic understanding can be useful on every level within an inner city... (more)
Questioning Identities: Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice
Face-to-face with differences in the analytical relationship analysts frequently confront the limitations of their theories. In this new book Mary Lynne Ellis and Noreen O'Connor move to the heart of... (more)
Bion's Dream: A Reading of the Autobiographies
'This book offers a definitive reading of Bion's remarkable autobiographical writings from a perspective embedded in the poetry of the ages, that of the Romantics in particular. It is at once learned... (more)
Presence of Mind in Neurophysiological Processes
This book is a study of the simultaneous physiological recordings and psychoanalytic observations when emotional/psychological responses to external stimuli occur pari passu with observed... (more)
Neuroanatomy of Social Behaviour: An Evolutionary and Psychoanalytic Perspective
This book is for readers who are knowledgeable about the neurosciences and curious about brain mechanisms that produce normal and pathological social behaviour. It is a reference work that presents... (more)
A New Freudian Synthesis: Clinical Process in the Next Generation
This work presents a vision of contemporary Freudian psychoanalysis. The contributors show how modern Freudian analysts have translated and retranslated the contributions of analysts on whose... (more)
The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Bion and Jung
This book provides an exploration of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. It explores the ways psychoanalysts and other clinicians are taught to evade direct emotional... (more)
The Restoration of the Self
In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges 'the limits of classical analytic theory' and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a... (more)
Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the... (more)
Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the DSM, is published by the American Psychiatric Association and aims to list and describe all mental disorders. The... (more)
Battling the Life and Death Forces of Sadomasochism: Clinical Perspectives
This book examines the forces of sadomasochism in the clinical domain where transference and countertransference reside. Psychoanalysts write in depth about cases where sadomasochism is present for... (more)