Psychoanalysis Books
A Framework for the Imaginary: Clinical Explorations in Primitive States of Being
An extraordinary depiction of one analyst's efforts to receive and respond to the vivid impressions of her patients raw and sometimes even unmentalized experiences as they are highlighted in the... (more)
The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics: A European Study Bridging Ethics, Psychoanalysis, and Medicine
Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology... (more)
On the Way Home: Conversations Between Writers and Psychoanalysts
Literature was present at the birth of psychoanalysis. When Freud made his momentous discovery of the Oedipus complex within himself and his patients, he recognised that this psychic configuration... (more)
Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations
Using Kohut's seminal paper "Forms and Transformations of Narcissism" as a springboard, Frank Lachmann updates Kohut's proposals for contemporary clinicians. Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on... (more)
Promises, Oaths, and Vows: On the Psychology of Promising
Considering that getting along in civil society is based on the expectation that (most) people will do what they say they will do, i.e., essentially live up to their explicit or implicit promises, it... (more)
Making a Difference in Patients' Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting
Within the title of her book, "Making a Difference in Patients' Lives", Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its... (more)
Coasting in the Countertransference: Conflicts of Self Interest Between Analyst and Patient
Irwin Hirsch asserts that counter-transference experience always has the potential to be used productively to benefit patients. However, he also observes that it is not unusual for analysts to... (more)
Breaking Up Blues: A Guide to Survival and Growth
An indispensable, practical self-help book for those going through break-up and divorce. Leaver or left, breaking up is much more painful than youd ever expect. There are so many pitfalls that can... (more)
Being in Love: Therapeutic Pathways Through Psychological Obstacles to Love
Expands the traditional field of psychoanalytic couple therapy, and explores therapeutic methods of working through the obstacles leading to true love. Becoming who we are is an inherently relational... (more)
Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918-1938
Many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. This work presents a different picture of Freud and early... (more)
Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
One of the guiding premises of Becoming a Subject is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world cannot separate itself from investigations of a more... (more)
Sex and the Psyche: The Truth About Our Most Secret Fantasies
What's going on in your head when you go to bed? We talk about sex increasingly openly today, but when it comes to our most private fantasies it's often a different matter.
Here psychotherapist... (more)
From Psychoanalytic Narrative to Empirical Single Case Research: Implications for Psychoanalytic Practice
Recognition of the need for empirical research and interest in its findings are growing in psychoanalysis. Many psychoanalysts now acknowledge that research is imperative to try to deal with the... (more)
Sitegeist - Number 2 (Spring 2009) - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Sitegeist is a space for thinking and questioning philosophy and psychoanalysis; it aims at a change in Geist - spirit, mind, intellect, wit, genius and morale. It seeks to contribute to a renewal of... (more)
On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions
Through a symptomatic reading of Freud's corpus, from his letters to Fliess through the case of Little Hans to Moses and Montheism, this book demonstrates how circumcision - the fetishized signifier... (more)
Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory
This is a powerful theological engagement with psychoanalytic theory in Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, and Zizek, as well as major expressions of contemporary Continental philosophy, including Deleuze,... (more)
Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes
In "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", Freud observed that the life-enhancing pleasure principle seems disrupted by something internal to the psyche. He took into account the possibility of a death... (more)
The Analytic Situation: How Patient and Therapist Communicate
Significant as has been the role of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in contemporary culture and society, its importance continues to grow at an accelerating rate as more specific, focused, and... (more)
The Future of Psychoanalysis
"The Future of Psychoanalysis" explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more classical position based on Freud's work. Using his training... (more)
The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire
An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In "The World of Perversion", James Penney argues that antihomophobic criticism has nothing to lose - and indeed everything to... (more)
A Curious Calling: Unconscious Motivations for Practising Psychotherapy: Second Edition
"What brings you here?" is the standard question posed to patients at the outset of their therapeutic journey. In "A Curious Calling", this question is posed to therapists themselves. Applicants to... (more)
Women's Reflections on the Complexities of Forgiveness
This book by women represents a diversity of opinions about every aspect of forgiveness, embodying a tolerance for differing perspectives. The contributors are researchers and therapists who have... (more)
The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing
Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system... (more)
The Impact of the Environment on Psychiatric Disorder
This book illuminates the range of ways in which it is possible for the environment to influence mental health. It is suitable for both academics and professionals. "The Impact of the Environment on... (more)
The Organic and the Inner World
For some years, there has been an unfortunate tendency in the UK for psychiatry and psychoanalysis to be perceived as in opposition to one another, to the detriment of both disciplines. Rather than... (more)
Towards Reading Freud: Self-creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud
When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud's writings as literature - alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire,... (more)
The Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Clinic: A History of its Structure and Power
This book provides a detailed examination of the historical roots of psychoanalysis from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century, focusing on social practices that were related to the founders... (more)
Children's Dreams: From Freud's Observations to Modern Dream Research
This book aims to present a study on the actuality and empirical value of Freuds dream theory, even if through the analysis of a specific part of it - the hypotheses about childrens dreams. It... (more)
The Interwoven Sources of Dreams
The subject of this book is the study of dreaming from a specific point of view, one that provides useful and enlightening results: the analysis of the complex patterns of links among the memory... (more)