Psychoanalysis Books
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)
On Freud's "Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence"
This book includes the development of the concept of "splitting" from both metapsychological and clinical perspectives, emphasizing the great importance of this topic for contemporary psychoanalysis.... (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)
Working with Adolescents and Young Adults: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach: Second Edition
Draws together traditional and recent psychoanalytic theory and illustrates its application to the study of practical therapeutic work with young people through vivid case material. Contemporary... (more)
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip
Harry S. Guntrip was best known for his affiliation with two famous psychoanalysts from what is known as the British Independent tradition of psychoanalysis in England: Ronald Fairbairn and Donald... (more)
The Personality Disorders: A New Look at the Developmental Self and Object Relations Approach
In this extraordinary book, Masterson, pioneer of the developmental self and object relations approach to the personality disorders, has stopped to look both backward and forward - to appraise how... (more)
The Infinite Question
Christopher Bollas uses detailed studies of real clinical practice to illuminate a theory of psychoanalysis which privileges the human impulse to question. From earliest childhood to the end of our... (more)
Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis
Antonino Ferro uses clinical material such as detailed reports of sessions, together with client's analytic histories, to develop Bion's original findings and illustrate complex concepts in the field... (more)
Mirroring and Attunement: Self-Realization in Psychoanalysis and Art
Mirroring and Attunement offers a new approach to psychoanalysis, artistic creation and religion. Viewing these activities from a broadly relational perspective, Kenneth Wright proposes that each... (more)
Building Out Into The Dark: Theory and Observation in Science and Psychoanalysis
An introduction to psychoanalysis focusing explicitly on whether psychoanalysis is part of the sciences, and if not, where it belongs. Many psychoanalysts, beginning with Freud, have considered their... (more)
On Latency: Individual Development, Narcissistic Impulse Reminiscence and Cultural Ideal
Latency is a developmental period that plays a transitional role, like "a bridge", between early childhood and adolescence (the beginning of early adulthood). However, the latency period is a subject... (more)
The Paradoxical Legacy of Sigmund Freud
By way of a new reading of The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, this book introduces the notion of a theory of practice to the psychoanalytic endeavour. Spelled out in terms of interdependent... (more)
The Early Years of Life: Psychoanalytical Development Theory According to Freud, Klein, and Bion
'This book provides a powerfully argued and beautifully constructed account of the early development of the child in the family context from a psychoanalytic perspective. It draws particularly on the... (more)
The Quest for Conscience and the Birth of the Mind
This book offers a new perspective on conscience as an as yet unrealized human potential, but a potential toward which human beings are naturally driven. A distinction is made between a "mature" or... (more)
Researching Beneath the Surface: Psycho-Social Research Methods in Practice
This book offers an overview of the rapidly expanding field of Psycho-Social research. Drawing on aspects of discourse psychology, continental philosophy and anthropological and neuro-scientific... (more)
The Uninvited Guest from the Unremembered Past: An Exploration of the Unconscious Transmission of Trauma Across the Generations
Freud wrote to Binswanger on the anniversary of his daughter's death, "We will remain inconsolable. I don't care for my grandchildren anymore, but find no joy in life anymore."
The author poses... (more)
Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty
A contemporary, wide-ranging exploration of one of the most provocative topics currently under psychoanalytic investigation: the relationship of dissociation to varieties of knowing and unknowing.... (more)
The Aesthetic Development: The Poetic Spirit of Psychoanalysis: Essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats
'Few people would be better qualified than Meg Harris Williams to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, Harris Williams... (more)
The Aesthetic Dimension of the Mind: Variations on a Theme of Bion
'In this magisterial work, the author almost encyclopaedically reviews all of Bion's works and does so from the perspective (vertex) of the aesthetic dimension. She scans virtually all the essential... (more)
Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations: Contributions from the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO)
This book samples the groundbreaking work that has been developed over the last twenty-five years by psychoanalysts, writers and practitioners associated with the International Society for the... (more)
Perversions of Fascism
Contemporary versions of evil demonise modern "fascists", "totalitarian threats", and "Hitlers". As if not obscure enough, fascist evil has been equivocally linked with perversion. This book reveals... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Positivity
Without falling into unwarranted enthusiasm or naive optimism, the book examines how positivity operates, and goes on to investigate the concept of the construction of an internal framework, the... (more)
Social Symptoms of Identity Needs: Why We Have Failed to Solve Our Social Problems and What to do About It
Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or... (more)
The Trainings of the Psychoanalyst
If psychoanalysis, for Freud, was an impossible profession, what consequences would this have for psychoanalytic training? And if one's own personal analysis lay at the heart of psychoanalytic... (more)
Flames from the Unconscious: Trauma, Madness, and Faith
'To feel like an impostor is a recurrent theme among artists and to feel false as a person is a crucial theme in psychoanalysis. The sense that one is living a lie is important to many and often goes... (more)