Psychoanalysis Books
The Work of Donald Meltzer Revisited: 100 Years After His Birth
The Work of Donald Meltzer Revisited: 100 Years After His Birth returns to and reassesses the contributions of Donald Meltzer, one of the most significant disciples of Melanie Klein and who was... (more)
On Freud's Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through
In On Freud’s “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” international contributors from a range of psychoanalytic backgrounds reflect on this key 1914 paper.
Each chapter considers an aspect... (more)
On Arrogance: A Psychoanalytic Essay
This book explores the notion of arrogance from a broadly psychoanalytic perspective, and examines its importance in the consulting room and the wider world.
Starting from the writings of Freud... (more)
Antonino Ferro: A Contemporary Introduction
This book provides a clear, thorough and accessible introduction to the work of Antonino Ferro, and draws on the clinical vignettes that punctuate his writings to show how Ferro has built on Bion’s... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional... (more)
Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text
Twenty-nine years since the first edition was released, Frank Summers has renewed his lucid and thorough clarification of the various object relations theories to demonstrate their evolution and... (more)
The Clinical Paradigms of Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion: Comparisons and Dialogues
This book introduces the psychoanalytic principles of both Winnicott and Bion, to compare the ways in which their concepts evolved, and to show how their different approaches contribute to... (more)
Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis: Creativity and Authenticity at Work
Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis celebrates the lives and work of female psychoanalysts whose significant contributions to the Independent Tradition have hitherto been overshadowed by... (more)
Increate Light
As with all Eric Rhode’s work, we are taken on a fast-moving journey where previous travellers have left few footprints. These are faint, and soon dissolve. Accompanying us are passions, intellectual... (more)
Food Matters: Biopsychosocial Perspectives
Food matters because food is essential to sustain life, and food matters are complex and wide-ranging, encompassing the symbolic as well as the practical. The rich discussions of the relationship... (more)
A Dream That Interprets Itself
Sigmund Freud hired Otto Rank as his secretary and funded Rank’s PhD in literature at the University of Vienna. In 1910, at age 26, Rank published ‘A Dream That Interprets Itself’. Freud could not... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Encounter and the Misuse of Theory
In clear, accessible language, Lee Grossman addresses the disjuncture between analytic literature and clinical work in an effort to render analytic theorizing more representative of clinical... (more)
Finding a Way to the Child: Selected Clinical Papers 1983-2021
Margaret Rustin’s writing is characterised not only by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her imaginative sensitivity to the emotional lives of children and young people, the depth of her... (more)
Mourning and Metabolization: Close Readings in the Psychoanalytic Literature of Loss
By bringing together perspectives from psychoanalysis and literary studies and considering the reciprocal relation between ideas about mourning and our internal worlds, this book provides a guide to... (more)
The Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma in Psychoanalysis: Fear of Madness
This collection addresses the theory of claustro-agoraphobic anxieties and schizoid phenomena. It provides psychoanalytic case studies of the transference and counter-transference dynamic inherent in... (more)
Truth: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
This edited collection gathers together erudite and considered contributions from Salman Akhtar, Cobi Avshalom, Brett Clarke, Mali Mann, Gila Ofer, Thomas Ogden, Louis Rothschild, Batya Shoshani,... (more)
London Kleinians in Los Angeles: Laying the Foundations of Object Relations Theory and Practice
In 1968, Wilfred Bion and Albert Mason emigrated to Los Angeles at the invitation of a group of young analysts to teach and train local clinicians in the British object relations tradition. They were... (more)
In Leaps and Bounds: Psychic Development and Its Facilitation in Treatment
A tour de force from the inimitable Salman Akhtar. Dr Akhtar brings his encyclopaedic knowledge of psychoanalysis to present a deceptively simple guide to personality development across the full... (more)
Misogyny in Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, misogyny hides in plain sight, seemingly above and beyond the usual conventions of workplace etiquette or even a vague awareness of sexism. It is commonplace in psychoanalytic... (more)
Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry
This book presents and elaborates on the rationale and implications of the transformational dimension of psychoanalysis. In so doing, it attempts to extend psychoanalytic theory and practice beyond... (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)
Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development
Trauma, Guilt and Reparation identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to... (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)
Credo?: Religion and Psychoanalysis
Personal reflections on faith and psychoanalysis from a leading British psychoanalyst.
What is it that lies beyond our knowing, beyond our imagination and beyond our understanding: beyond the... (more)
Dream Psychology
'The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.'
In this fascinating work by one of the pioneers of psychology and psychoanalysis, Freud unlocks the secrets of 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)
Sexual States of Mind
A ground-breaking psychoanalytic study on sexuality which maintains its originality today, forty-five years after its first publication. The book is a revision of psychoanalytic theory, starting with... (more)
Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris
This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and... (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)