Psychoanalysis Books
The Capacity to Care: Gender and Moral Subjectivity
Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved... (more)
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College De France, 1973-1974 (Hardback)
See catalogue number 27486 for the paperback edition. In this new addition to the "College de France Lecture" series, Michel Foucault's historical enquiry into the uses and techniques of power and... (more)
Sex on the Couch
At just the right moment when many people are ready to throw Freud onto the ash-heap of intellectual history, "Sex on the Couch" rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on... (more)
The Healer's Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter
Thematically integrating published and unpublished papers, and containing three chapters of autobiographical reflection, this book aims to make the author's distinct approach to clinical theory and... (more)
Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva: Literature, Art, Therapy
In 'Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva', Carol Mastrangelo Bové explores how Kristeva's theoretical and fictional writings contribute to an understanding of contemporary personal and... (more)
History of Madness
Challenging entrenched views of madness and reason, "History of Madness" is one of the classics of twentieth century thought. It is Foucault's first major work, written in a dazzling and sometimes... (more)
Reading Freud: Psychoanalysis as Cultural History
Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to Freud and brings together for the first time: an... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love and Sexuality
Man has great difficulty accepting who he is. In "Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love and Sexuality", author Gerd H. Fenchel traces how we have defined ourselves historically and in the present... (more)
Martha Freud: A Biography
Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived at his side for... (more)
The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Questions of soul and spirit are increasingly being raised in connection with the scientific exploration of the psyche, and especially in the context of psychotherapy. The contributors to this volume... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?
Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of 'science'. Ever since, there has been the assumption that psychoanalysts are hostile to... (more)
Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling
Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between patient and analyst. Antonino Ferro... (more)
Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
See catalogue number 27001 for the paperback edition. One of the guiding premises of "Becoming a Subject" is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world... (more)
Going Sane
We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? In 'Going Sane', psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips delves deep into history, philosophy, literature, and his own experiences to address... (more)
Personality Disordered Patients: Treatable and Untreatable
Determining the amenability of personality disorders to psychotherapy - a patient's capacity to benefit from verbal approaches to treatment - is important in helping clinicians determine the... (more)
Truth, Reality and the Psychoanalyst: Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis
All the key ideas developed by psychoanalysis in Latin America are included in this book, as well as relevant historical events for psychoanalysis in each country. The authors of the chapters are... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Image: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
"Psychoanalysis and the Image" brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern... (more)
The Anorexic Mind
Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence which may be transitory, to serious and chronic mental illnesses. The Anorexic Mind offers a coherent approach to... (more)
The Bi-sexuality of Daniel Defoe: A Psychoanalytic Survey of the Man and His Works
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is known to many only by his first novel, "Robinson Crusoe", astonishingly written as he approached his sixtieth year. Acknowledged as the first of English novelists, he has... (more)
Feeling Matters
As long as feelings are second-class citizens, people will be second class citizens. Experience is an endangered species. An important function of psychotherapy is to make time for... (more)
The Soul, the Mind, and the Psychoanalyst
This book is based on various cases whose common factor is how the psychoanalytic setting is created: the internalization and realization inside the patient`s mind: with the feeling of fixed hours... (more)
Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire
Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire is a contemporary, interdisciplinary exploration of one of psychoanalysis's most foundational and fascinating areas of investigation. This anthology explores... (more)
Constructing a Mind: A New Basis For Psychoanalytic Theory
Can the Protomental System provide a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory? "Constructing a Mind" draws on psychoanalytic theories of mind and recent developments in cognitive science to present... (more)
Other Banalities: Melanie Klein Revisited
Melanie Klein is one of the few analysts whose body of work has inspired sociologists, philosophers, religious scholars, literary critics and political theorists, all attracted to the... (more)
Managing the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body
'Managing the Monstrous Feminine' takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher... (more)
Standards and Expectancies: Contrast and Assimilation in Judgments of Self and Others
This book examines how standards and expectancies affect judgments of others and the self. Standards are points of comparison; expectancies are beliefs about the future, and both serve as frames of... (more)
The Self in Social Judgement
This volume begins with a historical overview of the self in social judgment, and outlines the major themes discussed. In conclusion, a chapter summary reviews the various approaches and identifies... (more)
Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-psychoanalysis
The subject of the application of neuroscience to psychoanalysis is a growing one which aims to give a new perspective on the future for psychoanalysis. A Curious Intimacy will have great appeal for... (more)