Psychoanalysis Books
Freud and Tragedy
The book examines Sigmund Freud's life and work, and sees tragedy as a concept of central importance in both. Politzer shows how for Freud the tragic experience - later formulated as the Oedipus... (more)
The Self in Transformation
This book brings together into one volume a number of articles that the author has written over the past 20 years, and includes a new extended essay written especially for this volume. The chapters,... (more)
Containment and Reciprocity: Integrating Psychoanalytic Theory and Child Development Research for Work with Children
"Containment and Reciprocity" shows how the psychoanalytic concept of containment and the child development concept of reciprocity can be used together to inform clinical work with young children and... (more)
Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold
In Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold, Janet Sayers provides a refreshingly new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its story through art. She does this by bringing together experts from the... (more)
The Dream Experience: A Systematic Exploration
The Dream Experience provides the mental health professional a systematic scientific basis for understanding the dream as a psychological event. Milton Kramer's extensive research, along with the... (more)
The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis: Papers in Philosophy, the Humanities, and the British Clinical Tradition
Ever since Freud, psychoanalysts have explored the connections between psychoanalysis and literature and psychoanalysis and philosophy, while literary criticism, social science and philosophy have... (more)
The Use of Psychoanalytic Concepts in Therapy with Families: For all Professionals Working with Families
This book begins with a readable practitioner's guide to psychoanalytic theory and concepts. It moves on to give a number of detailed practice-based examples of the application of this theoretical... (more)
Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius
In Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her... (more)
On Deaths and Endings: Psychoanalysts' Reflections on Finality, Transformations, and New Beginnings
"On Deaths and Endings" brings together the work of psychoanalytic scholars and practitioners grappling with the manifold issues evoked by loss and finality. The book covers the impact of endings... (more)
What's Wrong With Us?: The Anthropathology Thesis
In this revolutionary text, the author explains "anthropathology" which, in part, is the invisible milieu we are born into, leading to a society created by human beings that is, in the author's view,... (more)
Constructions and the Analytic Field: History, Scenes and Destiny
Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their task more of a... (more)
The Concept of Analytic Contact: The Kleinian Approach to Reaching the Hard to Reach Patient
The Concept of Analytic Contact presents practitioners with new ways to assist the often severely disturbed patients that come to see them in both private and institutional settings. In this book... (more)
Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
This is the first collection of papers published in this country which spans work with autistic children and autistic features in adults. The links between the two groups make for fascinating reading... (more)
Mothers and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity
"Mother and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity" challenges the theory of the Oedipus complex, which permeates psychoanalytic theory, psychology, semiotics and cultural studies. The book... (more)
The Psychodynamic Image: John D. Sutherland on Self in Society
The Psychodynamic Image is the first selection of John D. Sutherland's major papers. It provides an overview of the development of his thought on self and society and reveals the extent of his... (more)
The Matrix and Meaning of Character: An Archetypal and Developmental Approach - Searching for the Wellsprings of Spirit
Character structures underlie everyone's personality. When rigidly defended, they limit us; yet as they become more flexible, they can reveal sources of animation, renewal and authenticity. "The... (more)
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis spans over thirty years of Roger Kennedy's work as a practicing psychoanalyst, providing a fascinating insight into the process of development of psychoanalytic... (more)
The Literary Freud
In this book, Perry Meisel argues that Freud's texts are properly literary, and casts Freud as both literary theoretician and practitioner. Here, after an introductory reception history of Freud as... (more)
Feeling the Words: Neuropsychoanalytic Understanding of Memory and the Unconscious
"Feeling the Words" incorporates a thorough review of essential psychoanalytic concepts, a clear critical history of analytical ideas and an assessment of the contribution neuroscience has to offer.... (more)
Playing the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Interviews with Children Using Winnicott's Squiggle Technique
This book argues that the squiggle game enables one in most cases to make contact with a child with particular ease. Often, if the child takes up the suggestion, an intense dialogue develops which... (more)
When the Body Displaces the Mind: Stress, Trauma and Somatic Disease
Can the mind really generate a physical disease? Conversely, can the body cause mental illness? What do we know today about their interaction? The relations between body and mind are the source of... (more)
Diversity, Discipline and Devotion in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Clinical and Training Perspectives
This book is a selection of papers written over 25 years of practising psychoanalytic psychotherapy, of training and supervising psychotherapists, psychodynamic counsellors and supervisors. It... (more)
Moral Stealth: How Correct Behavior Insinuates Itself into Psychotherapeutic Practice
A psychiatrist writes a letter to a journal explaining his decision to marry a former patient. Another psychiatrist confides that most of his friends are ex-patients. Both practitioners felt they had... (more)
Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative
It is often the case that painful truths emerge first in the form of denial; one needs to create distance from what is painful. In "Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative" Wilfried Ver... (more)
The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire
See catalogue number 26855 for the paperback edition. An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In "The World of Perversion", James Penney argues that antihomophobic... (more)
The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
"The International Self" explores an age-old question in international affairs, one that has been particularly pressing in the context of the contemporary Middle East: what leads long-standing... (more)
The Dissociative Mind
The Dissociative Mind takes the reader from neurophysiology to attachment theory to the clinical remediation of trauma states to the reality of evil. It provides a masterful overview of a literature... (more)
Creating a Human World: A New Psychological and Religious Anthropology in Dialogue with Freud, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard
In Creating a Human World Trappist monk and scholar Ernest Daniel Carrere explores what it means to be fully human, to live in a shared world, and to resist the easy tendency to flee reality and seek... (more)
The Development of Consciousness: An Integrative Model of Child Development, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Using 'Freud's Project for a scientific psychology' as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical research with neuroscience. Its aim is to to delineate a... (more)