Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Five Kohutian Postulates: Psychotherapy Theory from an Empathic Perspective
This book uses the philosopher Imre Lakatos' emphasis on research programs that organize around a central postulate and auxiliary postulates to explicate Heinz Kohut's "self-psychology. Kohut's... (more)
Transference and Countertransference: A Unifying Focus of Psychoanalysis
Since Freud's initial papers on transference and countertransference, these vast and inexhaustible subjects have occupied psychoanalysts. Transference and countertransference, the essence of the... (more)
Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children
In this book Claudia Frank discusses how Melanie Klein began to develop her psychoanalysis of children. Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children offers a detailed comparative... (more)
Assessing Change in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents: Today's Challenge
This book draws together work from across Europe by leading clinical researchers who have been looking into the effectiveness of psychoanalytic interventions. They are mostly time limited, brief,... (more)
Bearing Witness: Psychoanalytic Work with People Traumatised by Torture and State Violence
'In their discussion of torture, the contributors to this book write of what its victims cannot put into words and the work that has to be done with them to that end. Working with a victim's account... (more)
When Theories Touch: A Historical and Theoretical Integration of Psychoanalytic Thought
This book aims to deconstruct the different theoretical perspectives of psychoanalysis, and reconstruct these concepts in a language that is readily understood. Wherever possible this is meant not to... (more)
The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept
'Until now no book has ever attempted to compare and contrast contributions on analytic field theory and at the same time to explore its clinical and technical implications. This volume is intended... (more)
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the A-rational Mind
Psychoanalytic theories have come in and out of favour in the past hundred years. As a central theory behind recent empirically validated treatments such as mentalisation based therapy, there is a... (more)
Freud's Women
An intelligent and sophisticated exploration of the lives of the many women in Freud's career. (more)
Axis Mundi
'Eric Rhode takes on some of the most fundamental aspects of human experience, thought, and meaning. He journeys into fascinating corners of "monsoon Asia" - and into areas in mind and spirit that... (more)
Gender As Soft Assembly
Weaves together insights from different disciplinary domains to open up new vistas of clinical understanding of what it means to inhabit, to perform, and to be, gendered. Opposing the traditional... (more)
The Mind Object: Precocity and Pathology of Self-sufficiencyPrecocity and Pathology of Self-sufficiency
Winnicott was the first to describe how very early in life an individual can, in response to environmental failure, turn away from the body and its needs and establish mental functioning as a thing... (more)
Making Freud More Freudian
This book demonstrates the clinical value of "making Freud more Freudian". The theoretical contributions of Charles Brenner are summarized and emphasized. They are built on an elaboration of Arlow's... (more)
Melanie Klein and Beyond: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources
'Did Melanie Klein ever think that 50 years after her death her ideas would be spreading world-wide in such a fruitful and productive way? In one sense she would be surprised, but in another, I think... (more)
On Freud's "Femininity"
In this book a group of contemporary psychoanalytic authors dedicated to studies on women and the feminine have been assembled with the objective of displaying points of concordance and discordance... (more)
Good Feelings: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Positive Emotions and Attitudes
This tightly edited volume opens a new vista in psychoanalysis by focusing upon positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes. The realms it covers include love, friendship, enthusiasm, courage,... (more)
The Experience of Time: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
In contemporary psychoanalysis, the concepts of time and history have become increasingly complex. It is evident that this trend offers us an opportunity to think about the intercrossing of the... (more)
But at the Same Time and on Another Level: Volume 2: Clinical Applications in the Kleinian/Bionian Mode
'This volume describes in detail my impression of specifically how to understand and to interpret in an analytic session. The reader will note that I present clinical sessions in stenographic detail... (more)
Transvestism, Transsexualism in the Psychoanalytic Dimension
'From time to time we listen to some curious views on psychoanalysis as an old fashioned and useless discipline, more important from an historical perspective than as a tool for understanding human... (more)
Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide to the Father of Psychoanalysis
Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we know... (more)
Lou Von Salome: A Biography of the Woman Who Inspired Freud, Nietzsche and Rilke
The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salomé left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she... (more)
The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism
When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the citys 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly... (more)
Erik Erikson: Shaper of: Identity: Mind Shapers Series
Erik Erikson has been described as 'probably the most significant post-Freudian thinker' with a 'unique and profound vision'. Getting to grips with his ideas, however, is no easy task. This book... (more)
Sigmund Freud: Shaper of: the Unconscious Mind: Mind Shapers Series
Through a valuably balanced assessment of Freud's most influential Psychoanalysis theory and how these ideas emerged from the zeitgeist of his age, Stevens asks: how do Freud's ideas stand up against... (more)
Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process
Should the therapeutic process adapt to suit race and ethnic diversity? This book examines issues that are specific to counselling people of African and Caribbean heritage. Exploring the hurt of... (more)