Psychoanalysis Books
Living Systems, Evolving Consciousness, and the Emerging Person: A Selection of Papers from the Life Work of Louis Sander
This collection of previously published papers can be viewed as a story of the gradual emergence of an overarching idea through the course of a lifes work. The idea concerns the way emerging... (more)
Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame
Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. The exciting discovery of childhood sexuality filled... (more)
Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery
In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of... (more)
The Male in Analysis: Psychoanalytic and Cultural Perspectives
In contrast to the plethora of publications focusing on femininity and psychoanalysis, publications on the analysis of masculine issues are rare. This book redresses the imbalance. It focuses on... (more)
Sigmund Freud and the History of Anna O.: Re-Opening a Closed Case
Anna O. was the famous 'first patient' of psychoanalysis whose treatment paved the way for Freud's subsequent work. But in recent years many historians of psychoanalysis have come to view this case... (more)
Freud's Memory: Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body
A wide-ranging reading of Freud's work, this book focuses on Freud's scientifically discredited ideas about inherited memory in relation both to poststructuralist debates about mourning, and to... (more)
Jealousy and Envy: New Views About Two Powerful Feelings
Jealousy and envy permeate the practice of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work. New experience and new relevance of old but neglected ideas about these two feeling states and their origins... (more)
Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective for the Discipline's Second Century
This exceptionally practical and insightful new text explores the emerging field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis. It provides an invaluable framework for approaching the currently fractious... (more)
Sweet Sorrow: Love, Loss and Attachment in Human Life
This book defines the centrality of love and loss in human life and in human meaning. Bowlby's Attachment theory forms the basis for understanding our selves and our relationships. Alan Eppel... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance
This book presents the proceedings of the of the conference on the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance held in Belfast in June 2008.
The aim of the conference was to offer a state of the... (more)
On Paedophilia
A topical and complete examination of the phenomena of paedophilia starting with a historical overview and then proceeding to a psychoanalytic examination of its structure and treatment. Contents... (more)
Couch Tales: Short Stories
A psychoanalyst sits in his consulting room waiting for the next patient. Thoughts, feelings and anxieties about his own current life begin to assault him. Partly as a way of dealing with the crisis... (more)
Systems and Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy
'This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers, positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy, captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured... (more)
Vulnerability to Psychosis: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Nature and Therapy of the Psychotic State
'Franco De Masi is well known for his psychoanalytic work with patients suffering psychotic illnesses. In this book, he addresses the human vulnerability to psychosis, but the modest title of his... (more)
Object Relations and Social Relations: The Implications of the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis
This book has two essential aims. First, to introduce some of the key assumptions behind relational psychoanalysis to an international audience and to outline the points where this approach counters,... (more)
A Clinical Application of Bion's Concepts: Volume 1: Dreaming, Transformation, Containment and Change
This work depicts clinical applications stemming from Dr Wilfred Ruprecht Bion's contributions to psychoanalysis. It may be used as a practical companion to The Language of Bion: A Dictionary of... (more)
Psychoanalytic Practice and State Regulation
'This book arises out of an important international conference held in March 2006 to discuss how regulation by the state has affected psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline in many different parts... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Work of Hansi Kennedy: From War Nurseries to the Anna Freud Centre (1940-1993)
This book presents a selection of the works of Hansi Kennedy, pre-eminent child psychoanalyst, whose career began with Anna Freud in the Hampstead War Nurseries and continued at the Hampstead Child... (more)
Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience: From Unconscious Fantasies to Neural Algorithms
The aim of Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience is to create a conception of the Freudian things around the unconscious that takes seriously both the clinical data gathered in the scope of... (more)
Lives Across Time/Growing Up: Paths to Emotional Health and Emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People
Follow seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences. Children traverse continuous or discontinuous courses. This book describes... (more)
Bodies In Treatment: The Unspoken Dimension
A challenging volume that brings into conceptual focus an "unspoken dimension" of clinical work - the body and nonverbal communication - that has long occupied the shadowy realm of tacit knowledge.... (more)
The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road
Rethinking the importance of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural theorists, film and visual theorists,... (more)
Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum: A Neuro-Psychoanalytic Analysis and Synthesis
This is a book about cognition, emotion, memory, and learning. Along the way it examines exactly how implicit memory ("knowing how") and explicit memory ("knowing that") are connected with each other... (more)
Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma
The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, "Wounded by Reality" is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood... (more)
Attachment and Sexuality
The papers featured in Attachment and Sexuality create a dense tapestry, each forming a separate narrative strand that elucidates different configurations of the relationship between attachment and... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis - 3-volume Set
Over the course of the past 15 years, there has been a vast sea change in American psychoanalysis. It takes the form of a broad movement away from classical psychoanalytic theorizing grounded in... (more)
Guilt and Its Visissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality
How do psychoanalysts explain human morality? "Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality" focuses on the way Melanie Klein and successive generations of her followers pursued... (more)
Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections
Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first of which pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of... (more)
The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory
The theory of psychoanalysis was the breakthrough that defined the intellectual ambience of the 20th century. Two-thirds of the way into the century, the new science peaked and started a steep... (more)
Erik Erikson and the American Psyche: Ego, Ethics and Evolution
Erik Erikson and the American Psyche is an intellectual biography which explores Erikson's contributions to the study of infancy, childhood and ethical development in light of ego psychology,... (more)