Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Globalization and Terrorism: Death of a Way of Life
How do we explain the factors that led to the murder by Muslim immigrants of Theo van Gogh in Holland? How do we explain why four young British Muslims should become suicide bombers who killed... (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)
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)
Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency
In this volume contemporary staff describe their thinking and clinical work. Theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics and the... (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)
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)
The Self Psychology of Addiction and its Treatment: Narcissus in Wonderland
Until recently, psychoanalysis has failed - on either a theoretical or clinical level - to keep pace with the significant changes in the type of patient seeking psychoanalytically-oriented... (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)
Psychoanalytic Theory for Social Work Practice: Thinking Under Fire
Written by practicing social workers and social work educators this text analyses psychoanalytic and psychosocial approaches to social work and relates them to current practices and values. Focusing... (more)
Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies
In this wonderfully illuminating sequel to A Spirit of Inquiry (Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage, 2002), Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of exploratory psychotherapy, by which he means the... (more)
Psychotherapy and the Treatment of Cancer Patients: Bearing Cancer in Mind
This book addresses the need for a more integrated care of cancer patients within hospitals which pays attention to the mental anguish as well as physical distress caused by the disease. It is based... (more)
9/11 as a Collective Trauma and Other Essays on Psychoanalysis and Society
This collection of essays tells of the psychic structure of suicide bombers and the psycho-political causes and consequences of the Iraq war, considers the psychological meaning of 9/11 for the world... (more)