Psychoanalysis Books
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This is a collection of published and unpublished papers on clinical, theoretical and applied aspects of psychoanalysis that take up various aspects of unconscious mental processes and conflicts and...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)
Loving Psychoanalysis: Technique and Theory in the Therapeutic Relationship
Written by an analyst who loves doing psychoanalysis, and who believes that psychoanalysis is a fundamentally loving endeavor. Susan S. Levine argues that the proper working attitude of the analyst... (more)
Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition
This book will stimulate readers to cross borders: between theory and practice, between research and everyday therapy, between out-patient and in-patient psychotherapy, between the view of ones own,... (more)
Through Assessment to Consultation: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Drawing from the Independent tradition in psychoanalysis, this book explores the application of psychoanalytic thinking to this work, reflecting on what is actually done and why. It provides a... (more)
Spontaneity: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry
Psychoanalytic theory frequently explains psychopathology from the perspectives of either inadequate early care or as the result of environmental factors. In this book the author suggests that poor... (more)
Sex Changes: Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis
The last half-century has seen enormous changes in society's attitude toward sexuality. In the 1950s, homosexuals in the United States were routinely arrested; today, homosexual activity between... (more)
Beyond Postmodernism: New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practice
Beyond Postmodernism identifies ways in which psychoanalysis has moved beyond the postmodern debate and discusses how this can be applied to contemporary practice. Roger Frie and Donna Orange bring... (more)
Dare to be Human: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Journey
Daniel is 35, successful, a high level professional and an accomplished academic - yet he is also a virgin, who fears that he will spend the rest of his life alone. More importantly, Daniel has... (more)
Sigmund Freud: Second Edition
Offers students an introduction to Freud's importance for psychoanalytic literary criticism, while tracing the scientific and cultural contexts from which he emerged. The book covers Freud's... (more)
Making Minds and Madness: From Hysteria to Depression
Why do 'maladies of the soul' such as hysteria, anxiety disorders, or depression wax and wane over time? Through a study of the history of psychiatry, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provocatively argues that... (more)
Anna Freud: A Biography: Second Edition
The second edition of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's definitive biography of pioneering child analyst Anna Freud includes a major retrospective introduction by the author, an updated bibliography, and new... (more)
Love, Hate and Knowledge: The Kleinian Method and the Future of Psychoanalysis
This book introduces the clinical concept of analytic contact. This is a term that describes the therapeutic method of investigation that makes up psychoanalytic treatment. The field has been in... (more)
Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present
New in paperback. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Theroigne de... (more)
Primary Process Thinking: Theory, Measurement, and Research
Volume one of this comprehensive approach to one of Freud's most important conceptual achievements, the theory of thinking, examines the emergence and changes in his conceptions of primary and... (more)
In Freud's Tracks: Conversations from the Journal of European Psychoanalysis
The privileged link of psychoanalysis to spoken language does not necessarily facilitate communication among analysts and psychotherapists of different mother tongues. The Journal of European... (more)
The Relational Origins of Prejudice: A Convergence of Psychoanalytic and Social Cognitive Perspectives
This book shows how people's overidentification with the collective identity of a large group, rather than as an individual, leads to prejudice. It asserts that prejudice can be understood to be an... (more)
Freudian Repression, the Unconscious, and the Dynamics of Inhibition
Possibly no other psychoanalytic concept has caused as much ongoing controversy, and attracted so much criticism, as that of "repression". Repression involves denying knowledge to oneself about the... (more)
Franks and Saracens: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Crusades
Franks and Saracens is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to... (more)
In Search of the Good Life: Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Art of Living
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in the... (more)