Psychoanalysis Books
R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century: Sanity, Therapy, Love
In this remarkable review of the seminal contribution of the Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, R. D. Laing, the three authors, each intimately acquainted with the subject matter, explore... (more)
Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions: Legacy, Transformation and Becoming
Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions provides a thorough appraisal of the current state of psychoanalytic groups and how they might move forward under fraught conditions, representing the outcome... (more)
Thoughts for the Times on Groups and Masses: A Sigmund Freud Museum Symposium
A timely contribution in this era of authoritarianism, right-wing populist movements, identity formation, and political correctness.
“In groups the most contradictory ideas can exist side by... (more)
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a... (more)
Bion’s Emotional Links: Love, Hate and Knowledge
In Bion's Emotional Links, Judy K. Eekhoff explores emotion as a bridge between unrepresented and represented states, highlighting the importance of both internal emotional and external relationships... (more)
Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy
Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited explores Freud’s six principal case studies studies - Dora, Little Hans, Schreber, Wolf Man, Rat Man and Young Homosexual Girl - through the lens of... (more)
Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation
In the 2014 edition of Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, Daniel Shaw introduced a new way of understanding how victims become trapped and subjugated by the abuser Shaw calls... (more)
Practicing Psychoanalysis in Israel: Seeing Through Blindness
Gabriela Mann's book explores the work of an Israeli psychoanalyst who encounters the trauma and tragedy of Israelis living in an environment saturated with existential anxieties and threats to their... (more)
Post-patriarchal, Post-heteronormative and Postcolonial Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalysis for All
Post-patriarchal, Post-heteronormative and Postcolonial Psychoanalysis considers contemporary efforts to create a post-patriarchal, post-heteronormative and postcolonial psychoanalytic approach to... (more)
Ronald Fairbairn: A Contemporary Introduction
In this concise and introductory book, David Celani examines the work of Ronald Fairbairn, one of the pioneers of Object Relations Theory.
Ronald Fairbairn: A Contemporary Introduction adopts a... (more)
Negative Hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s Theory of Transformations: On Finding One’s Ghost
In this illuminating volume, Rodrigo Barahona takes up the question of transformations in hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s work.
The book discusses how the analyst’s functioning, his receptivity... (more)
The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice
Mitchell Wilson explores the fundamental role that lack and desire play in psychoanalytic interpretation by using a comparative method that engages different psychoanalytic traditions: Lacanian,... (more)
Otto Kernberg: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Frank E. Yeomans, Diana Diamond, and Eve Caligor provide a systemic review of Otto Kernberg’s multiple contributions to psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychology, and our understanding of... (more)
How Does Analysis Cure?: Essays on a Psychoanalytic Method, Psychoanalytic Organizations and Psychoanalysts
Building upon fifty years of clinical experience, Fred Busch addresses a central question facing all psychoanalysts: What is essential to a psychoanalytic curative process, and what are the methods... (more)
What Does It Mean to Make Love?: A Psychoanalytic Study of Sexuality and Phantasy
What Does It Mean to Make Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often-unrecognised psychic bisexuality.
Everyone chooses a gender by repressing the... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo
A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo proposes a new perspective on narcissism, focusing on its destructive impact within... (more)
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)
The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations
For more than a century, the cultural imagination of psychoanalysis has been assumed and largely continues to be assumed as Western. Although the terroirs of psychoanalysis in South America, France,... (more)
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: 24-Volume Set
The wholly updated Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (RSE) is grounded in James Strachey’s canonical translation while annotating and clarifying... (more)
The Soft Power of Culture: Art, Transitional Space, Death and Play
Psychoanalysis is a valuable tool to add to the sciences and the arts: all contain unconscious hidden depths that can become insight and understanding and contribute to humanity as culture. Using the... (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)
Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity: From Toxic to Seminal
Drawing on a broad range of psychoanalytic, cultural and social influences, the author examines the concept of toxic masculinity for how it brings into focus a widespread anxiety about toxicity... (more)
Desire, Pain and Thought: Primal Masochism and Psychoanalytic Theory
Desire, Pain and Thought presents a new perspective on primal erotogenic masochism, which Marilia Aisenstein regards as the core of psychoanalytic theory.
Aisenstein distinguishes between... (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)
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)
Herbert Rosenfeld: A Contemporary Introduction
This bold and insightful book is the first to present the full work of highly influential British analyst, Herbert Rosenfeld.
This Contemporary Introduction covers all of Rosenfeld’s significant... (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 Mystery of Emotions: Seeking a Theory of What We Feel
Psychoanalysis is, above all, the science of the emotions but, as yet, there is no single accepted theory of affects. Instead, there are many, all of them too limited, based, as they are, on... (more)