Psychoanalysis Books
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)
The Psychotic Wavelength: A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Psychiatry
The Psychotic Wavelength provides a psychoanalytical framework for clinicians to use in everyday general psychiatric practice and discusses how psychoanalytic ideas can be of great value when used in... (more)
The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions
A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens. For anyone who has ever been to school, the very thought of education recalls an emotional world denounced. What... (more)
Sweet Dreams: Erotic Plots
A previously unpublished work by Robert Stoller. 'It was like discovering a previously unknown recording by the Beatles. On a 2007 visit to Robert Stoller's widow, Sybil, she handed me a manuscript.... (more)
Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border
'We are starting to see a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and neuroscience such as Freud could only dream of. Pay dirt will be found at the brain-mind border. One can now perhaps hope to have an... (more)
What do Patients Want?: Psychoanalytic Perspectives from the Couch
What do Patients Want? provides readers with an insight into patients' psychoanalytic experiences "from the couch".
Outcome studies have usually privileged the practitioner or researcher's... (more)
Lacan, Language, and Philosophy
Explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva's oeuvre. The social and political relevance of Julia Kristeva's work is perhaps the central question in Kristeva studies, and the essays... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
Unveils the psychoanalytic undercurrents of contemporary Islam. Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst who, although a secular thinker, identifies himself as a person of Muslim culture who rejects... (more)
Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes: Updated Edition
This a the most thorough and revealing account of the inner workings of psychoanalytic institutions. It is an in-depth study of the four leading PSA institutes in the US and their recent political... (more)
The Damaged Core: Origins, Dynamics, Manifestations, and Treatment
This comprehensive and tightly argued book deals with the process through which a coherent self evolves, the various ways such development fails to occur, and the therapeutic measures to put things... (more)
Tragic Knots in Psychoanalysis: New Papers on Psychoanalysis
This is a collection of published and unpublished papers on clinical, theoretical and applied aspects of psychoanalysis that take up various aspects of unconscious mental processes and conflicts and... (more)
Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Concrete Experience
The title of this book refers to a particular construction of the world that brooks no uncertainty: ‘things are the way I believe them to be’. There is no other way! This can be a real boost to... (more)
Losing the Race: Thinking Psychosocially about Racially Motivated Crime
Based on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
This landmark book is the first and only historical, cultural, and theoretical account of how male homosexuality has been viewed - and sometimes misconstrued - the psychoanalytic tradition, from... (more)
Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma
Rising above the polemics surrounding sexual and physical abuse, David and Jill Savege Scharff bring a relational perspective to the integration of psychoanalytic and trauma theories in order to... (more)
Male Sexuality: Why Women Don't Understand It - And Men Don't Either
At first glance the sexual male seems easy to understand, but beneath the surface lie complexities that disrupt lives and relationships. Why can men be so distant in bed? Why do many men love porn so... (more)