Psychoanalysis Books
Self Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible
"Insight" and "Change." The problematic relationship between these two concepts, to which the reality of psychoanalytic patients who fully understand maladaptive patterns without being able to change... (more)
Emotional Storm
Eigen explores the broad spectrum of emotions we experience in our relatedness to others, from feelings of longing, plenitude, and fulfillment to starvation, suffocation, and blind rage. Unlike... (more)
Relational and Intersubjective Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of... (more)
Before Words
Psychoanalysis has continuously been applied to the exploration of creativity and artistic genius, but up to now, this has not produced its own systematic body of knowledge. The traditional... (more)
Psychoanalytic Ideas and Shakespeare
Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth, as is the work of Shakespeare. These papers... (more)
Sex, Mind, and Emotion: Innovation in Psychological Theory and Practice
Recent decades have seen a decline in the emphasis on sexuality in psychoanalytic theory, whilst clinical psychology has become more involved in sexual health issues. Sexuality remains at the core of... (more)
Is It Too Late?: Key Papers on Psychoanalysis and Ageing
This book brings together a selection of classic psychoanalytical papers related to ageing, dying and death that have appeared in the renowned International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP). Two... (more)
Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism
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Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 1918-1938
Today many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. However, in this new work Elizabeth Ann Danto presents a... (more)
The Italian Seminars
Previously unpublished in English, this book comprises lectures W.R. Bion gave in Rome, in 1977. The volume consists of questions from the floor and Bion's fascinating and, at times, controversial... (more)
Sibling Relationships
For this volume, Prophecy Coles has brought together a group of distinguished writers to explore a wide range of issues affecting sibling relationships. This exciting collection of papers addresses a... (more)
Becoming Alive: Psychoanalysis and Vitality
Becoming Alive draws on the Winnicottian idea of transitional objects, and puts forward the argument that human beings relate to and use objects in order to generate experiences of 'being alive'. (more)
The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland: Psychotherapeutic Applications
The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland provides the first comprehensive review of W.R.D. Fairbairn and John Sutherland's theories on psycho-social development. It reviews Fairbairn and Sutherland's... (more)
The Telescoping of Generations: Listening to the Narcissistic Links Between Generations
The Telescoping of Generations is an original perspective on the nature of narcissism, exploring how the traumatic experiences of previous generations influence the mechanisms involved in the... (more)
Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions: The Kleinian Psychoanalytic Approach with Difficult Patients
Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions offers a clear introduction to psychoanalytic practice from a Kleinian perspective and shows how the modern Kleinian works with the most taxing and least... (more)
Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror
Blind Trust is the culmination of more than three decades of profound immersion in the most pressing sociopolitical conflicts of our time, by the psychoanalyst with probably the most direct... (more)
Masters of the Mind: Exploring the Story of Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the New Millennium
A fascinating, informative, comprehensive, broad-minded, brilliant, and perceptive tour of the universe of views of mental function and dysfunction, this book helps the reader understand... (more)
Psychoanalysis as Biological Science: A Comprehensive Theory
Psychoanalysis was once considered primarily a humanistic enterprise. The psychoanalyst was a philosopher and an artist, adept at deciphering the communications and intrapsychic behaviors of the... (more)
Killing Freud: Twentieth Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis
Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, Killing Freud ranges across... (more)
Hate and the 'Jewish Science': Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis has always grappled with its Jewish origins, sometimes celebrating them and sometimes trying to escape or deny them. Through exploration of Freud's Jewish identity, the fate of... (more)
The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
Key articles on Psychoanalysis, including 'On Dreams' and 'Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality'. (more)
Psychoanalysis: Its Image and Its Public
Moscovici's development of the theory of social representations has long been recognised as a major contribution to social psychology, but discussion of the theory has been limited by the... (more)
Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction
What is dreaming and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and often hard to remember? Modern science has given us a new and increasingly clear picture of how dreaming is created by the brain.... (more)
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood
A remarkable exploration of his childhood by the late Richard Wollheim, one of the English-speaking worlds most distinguished postwar thinkers, and the author of many acclaimed works of philosophy,... (more)
Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques, and Their Applications
Psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg reviews developments and controversies in psychoanalytic theory and technique. (more)
The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
With over one thousand entries, 'the Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis' provides the best single-volume coverage of the field available. An international array of contributors... (more)
Infecting the Treatment:
An examination of the impact of Gilbert Cole's disclosure of his HIV seropositivity on his analytic sense of self and on his clinical work with patients. The book provides a discussion of the pros... (more)
The Paradox of Countertransference: You and Me, Here and Now
Due March 2005. In this innovative text, Carol Holmes provides students and professional psychotherapists with an historical account leading to the most up-to-date information on the core... (more)