Psychoanalysis Books
Three Faces of Mourning: Melancholia, Manic Defense and Moving on
Mourning and the importance of the capacity to bear some helplessness, while still finding pleasure in life, are central to this tightly organized volume. The multi-faceted processes involved in... (more)
The Unconscious: Further Reflections
Outstanding authors from different regions and traditions present contemporary perspectives concerning Freud's fundamental assumptions on the unconscious. Contributors include Jean Laplanche, Charles... (more)
Linking, Alliances, and Shared Space: Groups and the Psychoanalyst
Group psychoanalysis (or group psychoanalytic psychotherapy) is a clinical practice that continues to be very active and plays an important role in the application of psychoanalysis, in the field of... (more)
The Geography of Meanings: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land, and Dislocation
This book is a multi-faceted attempt to understand the psychological mysteries of land, space, native cultures, changing eras, and geographical dislocation. It shows us that many remote and seemingly... (more)
From Impression to Inquiry: A Tribute to the Work of Robert Wallerstein
In this superb volume, the contributions of Bob Wallerstein are catalogued and elaborated by colleagues around the world, all leaders in their own right. The book is a fitting capstone to... (more)
Escape from Selfhood: Breaking Boundaries and Craving for Oneness
Escape from Selfhood is a detailed study of a very traumatised son of a Hungarian couple who managed to evade the Nazi death machinery by finding refuge in a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in... (more)
The Conscious in Psychoanalysis
How do we psychoanalysts, first and foremost concerned with the Unconscious, go about thinking about consciousness? And why should we be interested in the first place? The author's answer is simply... (more)
The Gendered Unconscious: Can Gender Discourse Subvert Psychoanalysis?
Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis. This book investigates the nature of... (more)
The Philosopher's Desire: Psychoanalysis, Interpretation, and Truth
This book is about interpretation as it pertains to literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. It argues against certain trends of thought that claim we should do without interpretation by... (more)
Against Freud: Critics Talk Back
Everyone agrees that Sigmund Freud has had a profound impact on Western life. But even today few people know much about his life and work beyond the legends that Freud and his adherents created,... (more)
Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion
This groundbreaking study has been widely hailed for its focus on a human emotion generally considered impervious to rational analysis: romantic, passionate love. Ethel Person views romantic love as... (more)
Where the Waters Meet: Convergence and Complementarity in Therapy and Theology
Where the Waters Meet offers the reader a new way of viewing an old subject. So often psychology and counselling therapies have been, and still are, seen as competitors, or even enemies, vying for... (more)
Time in Practice: Analytical Perspectives on the Times of Our Lives
This book is an original exploration of the importance in the analytical relationship of an attentiveness to lived, conscious and unconscious experiences of time in its three dimensions. It... (more)
Sex Makes the World Go Round
It is well known that Freud laid great emphasis on sexual matters. In the years that followed, a distinction was drawn between sex and gender, and the idea of gender identity was introduced. Human... (more)
Freud's Converts
This work is an exploration of the relationship between psychotherapy and religion. Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers were chosen for this exposition because both of them were seduced by the high status... (more)
Skin in Psychoanalysis
Skin in Psychoanalysis is an important theoretical contribution, revising several authors starting with Freud in whose writing we can now discover multiple direct or indirect references to the skin.... (more)
On Having an Own Child: Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood
How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed?
This is the first book ever to consider in depth why people want children, and specifically why people want... (more)
Symbolization: Representation and Communication
'Because psychoanalysis is a science of subjectivity, it is no surprise that symbolism has been of central interest from its inception and early development. There are few phenomena more obviously... (more)
After Winnicott: Compilation of Works Based on the Life, Writings and Ideas of D.W. Winnicott
Harry Karnac began to specialise in psychoanalytic bookselling at the suggestion of Donald Winnicott, a customer at Karnac's bookshop in Gloucester Road during the late 1950s. The two became good... (more)
Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis
This book compares different psychoanalytic thinking and models - from a rigorously Freudian perspective - on three concepts of great theoretical and clinical importance: 'Language', 'Symbolization',... (more)
Time, Self, and Psychoanalysis
"Time, Self, and Psychoanalysis" has two theoretical foci - the first is the nature of time experience and the second is the implications of the understanding of time for conceptualizing the nature... (more)
The Future of Prejudice: Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate... (more)
Dreaming: An Opportunity for Change
"Dreaming: An Opportunity for Change" is a practical guide for both therapist and dreamer that utilizes dream interpretation for the purpose of promoting clinical change. Myron Glucksman demonstrates... (more)
Side Effects
Side effects are things we do not intend. And, in this collection of essays, Adam Phillips examines how the things we don't mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 3: New Voices
Relational psychoanalysis has revivified psychoanalytic discourse by attesting to the analyst's multidimensional subjectivity and then showing how this subjectivity opens to deeper insights about the... (more)
What is This Thing Called Love? A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples
A clear how-to guide for carrying out psychotherapy with couples from a psychoanalytic perspective. The book draws on both early and contemporary psychoanalytic knowledge, explaining how each theory... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Sweden: Problems, Prospects and Two Propositions
From the author's introduction: "It is my hope that more reports like this will be forthcoming from different countries, with detailed information describing the present situation of psychoanalysis;... (more)
Edoardo Weiss: The House That Freud Built
Edoardo Weiss (1889-1970) was a favoured disciple of Freud and is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis in Italy. Although he was the author of six books and over a hundred professional... (more)
Freud and the Media: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Viennese Medical Journals 1895 - 1938 (Hardback)
This book presents the results of a research project on the early reception of analysis in two influential Viennese medical weeklies, the Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift and the Wiener Klinische... (more)