Psychoanalysis Books
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for... (more)
Narcissism: A Critical Reader
This book provides a comprehensive review of the existing perspectives and applications of narcissism as a psychoanalytic concept that has been extremely influential in the fields of psychotherapy,... (more)
Learning From Life: Becoming a Psychoanalyst
All of life can be a resource for our learning. In his fourth and most personal book, Patrick Casement attempts to understand what he has learned from life, sharing a wide range of those experiences... (more)
Resonance and Reciprocity: Selected Papers by Dennis Brown
This collection of papers, published between 1976 and 2003, traces the innovative connections which the eminent group analyst Dennis Brown made between medicine and psychoanalysis. They reveal his... (more)
Feeling, Being, and the Sense of Self: A New Perspective on Identity, Affect and Narcissistic Disorders
This book explores the underlying mechanisms of the psyche. It traces the development of the individual and, in particular, the development of the sense of self, which is understood to be intimately... (more)
The Stuff of Dreams: Anxiety, Fantasy, and Psychoanalysis
Many texts about anxiety are based either in the philosophical tradition or within the medical model under the guise of discussions about post-traumatic stress disorder. In the case of fantasy,... (more)
Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World
What is the role of unconscious fantasies in psychological development, in psychopathology, and in the arts? In Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World Danielle Knafo and Kenneth Feiner return... (more)
Getting from Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process
Guided by the conviction that work with extremely challenging patients promotes the psychological growth and increased self-knowledge of patient and analyst alike. The author chronicles the movement... (more)
Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys
In Awakening the Dreamer, Philip Bromberg continues the illuminating explorations into dissociation and clinical process begun in his seminal Standing in the Spaces (1998). Bromberg is among our most... (more)
Sigmund Freud
Bursting defiantly and gleefully beyond the bounds of orthodox biography, Sigmund Freud is a wildly humorous exercise in bending, stretching and speculating on the activities of the so-called Father... (more)
Spirit, Mind, and Brain: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Spirituality and Religion
Mortimer Ostow proposes an explanation of spiritual experience and religious motivation that is rooted in the analysis of early childhood emotional attachments. This novel approach, which can be... (more)
Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation
Drawing on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology, and cognitive science, "Radical Pedagogy" articulates a new theory of identity that explains how developing students' identities is a... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud
Object relations, which emphasizes the importance of the pre-oedipal period and the infant-mother relationship, is considered by many analysts to be the major development in psychoanalytic theory... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
The most recent scientific studies have brought a significant contribution to the understanding of basic mental functions such as memory, dreams, identification, repression, which constitute the... (more)
Good Goodbyes: Knowing How to End in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Good Goodbyes highlights the crucial importance of how the end of therapy is structured and experienced. Bad endings can destroy good therapies. Good endings can consolidate the work accomplished,... (more)
The Future of Psychoanalysis (Hardback)
See catalogue number 26856 for the paperback edition. "The Future of Psychoanalysis" explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more... (more)
The Fallacy of Understanding/The Ambiguity of Change
In The Fallacy of Understanding (1972) and The Ambiguity of Change (1983), Edgar Levenson elaborated the many ways in which the psychoanalyst and patient interact - unconsciously, continuously,... (more)
Beyond the Mind-body Dualism: Psychoanalysis and the Human Body
"Beyond the Mind-Body Dualism: Psychoanalysis and the Human Body" is the result of the proceedings of the The 6th Delphi International Psychoanalytical Symposium, held in Greece in October 2004. The... (more)
The Art of Interpretation: Deconstruction and New Beginnning in the Psychoanalytic Process
The Art of Interpretation is a profound examination by Wolfgang Loch of Freud's use and definition of interpretation as a therapeutic tool as well as viewing it from the philosophical perspective of... (more)
Understanding Attachment and Attachment Disorders: Theory, Evidence and Practice
This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its influence on development, and attachment disorders. Summarising the existing knowledge base in accessible... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America: Leading Analysts Present Their Work
This book is a unique and superb gateway to current psychoanalytic thinking. Thirty of America's foremost psychoanalysts - leaders in defining the current pluralistic state of the profession - have... (more)
The Analysand's Tale
Most accounts of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have been written by therapists, from a professional point of view. May such accounts alone be an authentic history of what occurred between the... (more)
Looking into Later Life: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Depression and Dementia in Old Age
Looking into Later Life aims to bring alive the relevance and value of psychoanalytic concepts in supporting the core role of those working directly in services for people who are older. It does not... (more)
Generation: Preoccupations and Conflicts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Generation is both an introduction to and a comparative study of contemporary psychoanalytic clinical theory. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of how new ways of thinking about... (more)
Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference: Perspectives from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis
How do gender and sexual difference influence the erotic transference? Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference offers new insights into working with complex transference and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life: Durations of the Unconscious Self
Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life examines the relationship between therapy and the time of life, presenting an original and thought-provoking re-reading of psychoanalysis in relation to questions... (more)
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)