Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion
Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destruction of the self or others has been described as... (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)
The Analyzing Situation
In this book Jean-Luc Donnet explores the particularities of the status of the method in psychoanalysis, linked to the specificity of unconscious psychic processes. If the method aims at ensuring a... (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)
Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis
Examines transformation from the perspective of Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis, addressing the question of how one achieves self-understanding that leads not only to insight but also to... (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 Work of Confluence: Listening and Interpreting in the Psychoanalytic Field
This book aims to expand the Barangers' oeuvre to the English language and, consequently, to a broader spectrum of readers. These contributions represent a pioneering work of great interest to the... (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)
Sigmund Freud and the History of Anna O: Reopening a Closed Case
In his published writings Sigmund Freud maintained that it was the success of Josef Breuer's treatment of the patient known as Anna O. that prepared the ground for the development of psychoanalysis.... (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)
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)