Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)