Psychoanalysis Books
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work
Longlisted for the 2022 CMI Management Book of the Year Award
Who do you bring with you to work?
Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow with our pyjamas when we... (more)
The Unconscious Body Image
The Unconscious Body Image espouses a completely original view of the links between physical and psychic development, providing fresh insight into our understanding of psychosomatic symptoms and... (more)
Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis: From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth
In this compellingly written and meticulously researched new book, Professor Brett Kahr draws upon extensive unpublished archival sources and upon his four decades of oral history interviews to paint... (more)
Living and Containing Psychoanalysis in Institutions: Psychoanalysts Working Together
Encompassing diverse perspectives on the psychoanalyst as individual, social being, and member of psychoanalytic institutions, this book provides practical and informed answers to the question of how... (more)
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter is a pioneering reflection on the psychology of racism and its impact on us all. With the intimacy of personal experience and depth of... (more)
Psychosomatics Today: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
This revised edition of Psychosomatics Today presents a thorough introduction to the different international schools of psychosomatics, written by leading professionals, and includes three new... (more)
Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction
Our lives are saturated by media that we use in conscious as well as unconscious ways. Spanning a wide range of examples, from film and TV to social media, from gaming to robots, this critical... (more)
The Evolution of Freud: His Theoretical Development of the Mind–Body Relationship and the Role of Sexuality
Renowned Freud scholar Barry R. Silverstein presents in a historical context an overview of the development of Freud’s theories. What was Freud thinking, when, and why, and what were the major... (more)
Sexual Addiction: Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Art of Supervision
Vamik D. Volkan recounts the story of Judy, a woman attempting to solve her early life deprivations through non-chemical addiction. He provides an understanding of the psychology behind such an... (more)
Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer: Volume 2: Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis
This new selection from the papers of Donald Meltzer spans his working life and serves as an introduction to all his key concepts, such as: aesthetic conflict, the claustrum, adhesive identification,... (more)
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works,... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis: Genesis, Psychopathology and Case Study
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis shows how, by understanding the antecedents and dynamics of psychosis, a psychoanalytic approach can offer a long-term alternative to the only... (more)
Psychoanalytic Concepts and Technique in Development: Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Physics
Psychoanalytic Concepts and Technique in Development offers a clear and thorough overview of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique, from a largely post-Freudian, French... (more)
Portrait of a Life: Melanie Klein and the Artists
Melanie Klein was a Viennese psychoanalyst who extended the work of Sigmund Freud in significant and innovative ways. She lived and worked in the UK from 1926 until her death in 1959. During her life... (more)
The Destroyed World and the Guilty Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Culture and Politics
David Levine and Mathew Bowker explore cultural and political trends organized around the conviction that the world we live in is a dangerous place to be, that it is dominated by hate and... (more)
The Kleinian Development - Part I: Freud's Clinical Development
The Kleinian Development derives from lectures delivered at the Institute of Psychanalysis, London, and the Tavistock Clinic (1965–78). It is divided into three volumes that examine, in turn, the... (more)
The Growth of Mind
The Growth of Mind is the product of a series of ten lectures by Neville Symington. It offers an understanding of the mind and its capacity to discover truth, establishing this as the foundation... (more)
Bion and Meltzer's Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life: Beyond the Spectrum in Psychoanalysis
Drawing on the influential contributions of Wilfred Bion and Donald Meltzer to psychoanalysis, Bion and Meltzer's Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life explores and addresses the clinical... (more)
Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment
Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political... (more)
Dream Life: A Re-examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique
"Dreams are my landscape", said Meltzer. In this book he re-establishes psychoanalysis as the art of reading dreams, and dream-life as the core of mental processes. Dreams are not just puzzles to be... (more)
Counterdreamers: Analysts Reading Themselves
‘Counterdreaming’ is Donald Meltzer’s term for the psychoanalytic reverie that arises from the countertransference during the session, in response to the analysand’s own dreams and phantasies. He... (more)
Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives
Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy builds on Bjorn Salomonsson's experiences as a psychoanalytic consultant working with parents and their babies. Emotional problems during the... (more)
Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis
'This volume reflects the passion, creativity and commitment of Antonino Ferro and his colleagues from Pavia as they strive to forge a psychoanalysis built upon a creative, intersubjective dialogue... (more)
Psychoanalytic Empathy
In this book, the author traces the philosophical origins of empathy and its development, with Freud and the first psychoanalysts, up to its "re-discovery" in the 1950s, in parallel with changing... (more)
Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative
André Green was a leading voice in French psychoanalysis, a brilliant thinker and an innovative contributor to the psychoanalytic field. His writings sit at the crossroads of contemporary... (more)
Freud: An Intellectual Biography
The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into... (more)
Bion: 365 Quotes
This is a book of 365 quotes from the work of the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion. Something of an enigma, Bion often doesn’t write in the way one would expect of a psychoanalyst, but is being read ever... (more)
The Psychoanalyst, the Theatre of Dreams and the Clinic of Enactment
This book is recommended to psychoanalysts and therapists interested in the analytical technique, particularly those working with patients who have deficits in their symbolization capacity. It... (more)
Echoism: The Silenced Response to Narcissism
This book introduces the importance of Echoism as both a clinical entity and a theoretical concept. In Ovid's version of the myth of Echo and Narcissus, the character Echo receives equal attention to... (more)
Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives presents a broad selection of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking on sexuality from a wide range of psychoanalytic traditions. Sexuality remains... (more)