Psychoanalysis Books
The Violence of Interpretation: From Pictogram to Statement
This translation of Piera Aulagnier's theory bridges the work of Winnicott and Lacan, putting forward a theory of psychosis based on children's early experiences. It presents his analysis of the... (more)
Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context
Melanie Klein left Germany in 1926 and settled in London where she soon quarrelled with Anna Freud. Klein pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of... (more)
On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind
Providing guidance on how the analyst can encourage the patient to communicate the quality of their often intolerably painful states of mind, this text looks at how he/she can interpret these states,... (more)
Ending Analysis: Theory and Technique
This book, beyond dealing with the theoretical and technical questions concerning the termination of analysis, gives a picture of the particular nature of the psychoanalytic cure in relation to the... (more)
Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self-Experience
Each person invests many of the objects in his life with his or her own unconscious meaning, each person subsequently voyages through an environment that constantly evokes the self's psychic history.... (more)
Two Papers: 'The Grid' and 'Caesura'
The Grid, an instrument devised by Bion to help the analyst record and elaborate observations arising from the analytic encounter, demonstrates how mathematics can be applied to locate the... (more)
Experiences in Groups
A classic study which, by synthesizing the approaches of psychoanalysis and group dynamics, has added a new dimension to the understanding of group phenomena. This collection of Bion's writings on... (more)
An Introduction to Object Relations
Presents a critical introduction to the work of Melanie Klein, D.W.Winnicott, W.R.D. Fairbairn, Michael Balint, H.J.S. Guntrip and John Bowlby. Subsequent chapters concentrate on the practice of... (more)
The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology
The ground-breaking book which attempts to bridge the gap between the psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological theories of child development. (more)
Containing Anxiety in Institutions: Selected Essays Volume 1
This is a controversial collection, which makes available to a wider public an important part of the research tradition of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. The author extends her analytic... (more)
Freedom to Relate: Psychoanalytic Explorations
What is the relationship between psychoanalysis and human freedom? Does psychoanalysis enhance it? Is it coercive? What are the limits? These may appear to be deceptively simple questions, but Roger... (more)
Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers
A collection of Betty Joseph's most important papers, exploring projective identification, transference, countertransference, unconscious phantasy, and Kleinian views on envy and the death instinct. (more)
On Private Madness
André Green occupies a unique position in psychoanalysis today, and his work represents a synthesis of the traditions of Lacan, Winnicott and Bion. This volume collects fourteen of his papers... (more)
Theatres of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness
This book looks at people who react to psychological distress through somatic manifestations, and at the psychosomatic potential of individuals in those moments when habitual psychological ways of... (more)
Creativity and Perversion
Explores the relationship and contrast between the creative mind and 'the artful universe of the pervert'.
Paths of Symbolization
Paths of Symbolization explores philosophical and psychoanalytic questions about the concept of symbolization.
Alain Gibeault connects symbolization with concepts like enactment and the practice... (more)
Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law: Confronting Chaos
Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law examines the challenges of maintaining a psychoanalytic stance when working in chaotic times, with international contributors reflecting not only on their work with... (more)
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Anna Maria Loiacono introduces the reader to the origins of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, its most important concepts, and their clinical value.
Throughout the chapters, Loiacono... (more)
The Impossible Return – Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning
The Impossible Return – Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning is a work of creative non-fiction and auto-theory. It is part cancer memoir, part psychoanalytic theorizing,... (more)
Essays on Integrative Psychotherapy: Developmental and Relational Perspectives
This book is a distinctive collection of essays on the theory and methods of a developmentally-based, relationally-focused integrative psychotherapy.
In an easy-to-read style, Richard Erskine... (more)
Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic Breathing: Working Psychoanalytically with Early Relational Trauma
This book focuses on the recognition and psychoanalytic treatment of a debilitating form of early relational trauma poignantly described by Steven Stern as airless world syndrome.
A patient can... (more)
Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work
Psychoanalysis is not just about what happens in the room—it is also about the structure that holds it all together. In Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work, Allannah Furlong rethinks one of the... (more)
R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century: Sanity, Therapy, Love
In this remarkable review of the seminal contribution of the Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, R. D. Laing, the three authors, each intimately acquainted with the subject matter, explore... (more)
Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy
Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited explores Freud’s six principal case studies studies - Dora, Little Hans, Schreber, Wolf Man, Rat Man and Young Homosexual Girl - through the lens of... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Childhood: A Memoir of Growing up in Mid-Twentieth-Century New York
Writer Caroline Zilboorg tells the fascinating story of growing up in New York City in the 1950s as the daughter of the Russian-American psychoanalyst and medical historian Gregory Zilboorg, a... (more)
Negative Hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s Theory of Transformations: On Finding One’s Ghost
In this illuminating volume, Rodrigo Barahona takes up the question of transformations in hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s work.
The book discusses how the analyst’s functioning, his receptivity... (more)
Forensic Psychoanalysis: From Sub-Clinical Psychopaths to Serial Killers
Forensic Psychoanalysis examines the traumatic psychological origins of violence and explores the ways in which such disasters can be prevented and treated.
The book encapsulates Professor Brett... (more)
Bion's Transformations Revisited and Expanded: Essays on the Complexity of Psychoanalysis
In this illuminating volume, Arnaldo Chuster provides a thorough critique of Wilfred Bion's seminal 1965 work, Transformations.
Offering a rich and nuanced opportunity to enhance one's... (more)
Conversations
Christopher Bollas presents us with a new literary form in his Conversations: twenty-three unique dialogues to captivate, amuse, and inspire.
The psychoanalyst Paula Heimann asked: ‘Who is... (more)
On Arrogance: A Psychoanalytic Essay
This book explores the notion of arrogance from a broadly psychoanalytic perspective, and examines its importance in the consulting room and the wider world.
Starting from the writings of Freud... (more)