Psychoanalysis Books
A Secure Base
Controversial yet powerfully influential to this day, this classic collection of Bowlby's lectures offers important guidelines for child rearing based on the crucial role of early relationships. As... (more)
The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds
John Bowlby's interest in the effects on a developing child of different forms of family experience began in 1929 when he worked for six months in a school for behaviourally challenged children. A... (more)
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind
Reflects the author's evolving view of how biology has revolutionized psychiatry and psychology and how potentially could alter modern psychoanalytic thought. (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case: Into the Void
The contributions brought together in Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case address a cross-section of significant issues that have both chronicled and facilitated the changes in feminist... (more)
The Herald Dream: An Approach to the Initial Dream in Psychotherapy
This monograph focuses on a systemic approach to dream interpretation and the unique importance of the initial dream. The first dream reported in a psychoanalytic therapy session poignantly... (more)
Touch Papers: Dialogues on Touch in the Psychoanalytic Space
For the first time, the controversial issue of physical contact in the consulting room is explored by distinguished psychoanalysts and psychotherapists representing a diverse range of psychoanalytic... (more)
Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker: A Clinical Application of W.R. Bion's Theories
Freud, Klein and Bion have provided the most relevant and substantial contributions to psychoanalytical theory and praxis. Klein was very much Freudian and Bion was both. There is undoubtedly a... (more)
The Embodied Self: Movement and Psychoanalysis
By integrating principles from her background as a movement psychotherapist and movement analyst with key concepts from contemporary psychoanalysis, the author offers a new perspective on exploring... (more)
Unmasking Race, Culture, and Attachment in the Psychoanalytic Space
Drawn from the John Bowlby Memorial Conference, the theme of this book addresses the often hidden and ignored subject of attachment, race and culture. Can our individual narratives in relation to... (more)
Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan
Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Rather, psychoanalysis was born in the clinic. Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain,... (more)
A Healing Conversation: How Healing Happens
How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in this book. He believes that a person in their innermost being... (more)
Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century
Mothers in the twenty-first century confront us, both in clinical practice and in theory, with fascinating challenges that to some extent subvert the traditional maternal ideal: the motherhood of... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 2: Innovation and Expansion
A volume of reprints of previously printed articles. Part I: Therapeutic Action D. Ehrenberg, The Intimate Edge in Therapeutic Relatedness (1974) J. Slochower, Holding: Something Old and Something... (more)
Self and Motivational Systems: Toward a Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique
This sequel to Lichtenberg's Psychoanalysis and Motivation describes an approach to psychoanalytic technique which emphasizes a sensitivity to moment-to-moment analytic exchanges and an appreciation... (more)
Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein
"The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein" explores the literary aspects of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic tradition that has come to be known as British Object Relations... (more)
Freud Wars: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
How can psychoanalytic thinking be justified? The Freud Wars offers a comprehensive introduction to the crucial question of the justification of psychoanalysis. No specialised knowledge is assumed,... (more)
Secrets of the Soul - A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
Traces the origins and development of psychoanalysis, from the Enlightenment through the twentieth century, in social, economic, and cultural perspectives. (more)
Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis
Interrogates the intersection of gender and racial subjectivity in American culture. In American literature, a traumatic scene of racial and sexual awakeningfrequently involving photographs, mirrors,... (more)
New Clinical Realms: Pushing the Envelope of Theory and Technique
Focusing on facets of mental functioning and psychopathology that remain largely unrecognized in psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature, this work raises intriguing questions about man's... (more)
Psychoanalysis of Science: The Role of Metaphor, Paraprax, Lacunae and Myth
By systematically deconstructing and analysing scientific texts for irrational unconscious motivations, new scientific associations can be produced. Four categories are suggested as guidelines for... (more)
Gender Space and Power
Presenting the key concept of 'ovular space' as opposed to 'rectilinear' spatial concepts as a new paradigm for social analysis, the authors put forward a wide-ranging social and cultural critique... (more)
Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference
In Fair Sex, Savage Dreams, Jean Walton examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher it in the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s,... (more)
Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality
Narcissists have been much maligned, but according to clinicians who study personality, there are many productive narcissists who succeed spectacularly well in life because they can articulate a... (more)
The Fall of an Icon: Psychoanalysis and Academic Psychiatry
Over the last few decades, academic psychiatry has undergone a revolution. After the Second World War, most department chairs were psychoanalysts who belonged to separate institutes, not subject to... (more)
Glacial Times: A Journey Through the World of Madness
`Salomon Resnik brings together various facets of his work as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, working in both the private sector and in institutional settings, to provide a careful summary of a... (more)