Psychoanalysis Books
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)
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies: Volume 1: Mainly Theory
The social unconscious is vital for understanding persons and their groupings, ranging from families to societies, committees to organisations, and from small to median to large therapeutic groups,... (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)
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)