Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Relational Trauma in Infancy: Psychoanalytic, Attachment and Neuropsychological Contributions to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
This book presents an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers and clinicians about trauma in the relationship between infants and their parents. It makes an innovative contribution to the... (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)
Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
This book builds a key clinical bridge between attachment theory and psychoanalysis, deploying Holmes' unique capacity to weld empirical evidence, psychoanalytic theory and consulting room experience... (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)
Reading Winnicott
Reading Winnicott brings together a selection of papers by the psychoanalyst and paediatrician Donald Winnicott, providing an insight into his work and charting its impact on the well being of... (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)
The Aesthetic Unconscious
This book is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with why this interpretation plays such an important role... (more)
Living with a Black Dog
This second book from Matthew Johnstone, author of "I Had a Black Dog", is an equally touching and beautifully illustrated book, written for those who care for those suffering from depression -... (more)
Erich Fromm: Shaper of the Human Condition
The twentieth century was defined by far-reaching social changes, and this fresh insight into the life and works of Erich Fromm offers a compelling overview of his observations. Fromm's views on... (more)
Psychopedagogy: Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education
Examining the work of Lacan and Freud, Cho argues that a theory of pedagogy is already embedded within psychoanalysis. Psychopedagogy is the name given to this embedded theory. Through a discussion... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World
'This is a much needed book, giving a readable, insightful and constructive perspective on many of today's societal, political and economic ailments. It is my fervent hope that it finds a large... (more)
The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action
This book focuses on the question of the theory of therapeutic action underlying the multiple perspectives in psychoanalysis. The question of how psychoanalysis effects therapeutic change and the... (more)
Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life: Fourth Edition
The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of... (more)
Identity, Gender, and Sexuality: 150 Years After Freud
'While Freud opened the door on the formative and motivating power of sexuality, contemporary psychoanalysts, with some notable exceptions, have consigned sexuality to the psychoanalytic closet. This... (more)
On Freud's "Analysis Terminable and Interminable"
This book, the first in the series Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues, is published for the International Psychoanalytical Association. Each book in the series presents a classic... (more)
On Freud's "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming"
This is the fourth volume in the series Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues, published with the International Psychoanalytical Association. Each book in the series presents a... (more)
On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"
Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that is, by loss. The distinction often made is that mourning occurs after the death of a loved one while in melancholia the object of... (more)
Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion's 'Container Model' in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Wilfred Bion's insights into the analytic process have had a profound influence on how psychoanalysts and psychotherapists understand emotional change and pathological mental states. One of his most... (more)
Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies
Whether they are supervisees entering analytic training or veteran analysts with twenty years of private practice, many capable psychoanalysts express frustration or doubt when trying to locate their... (more)