Psychoanalysis Books
Dialogue with Erik Erikson:
An introduction and developed overview of Erikson's theories of psychology. The evolution and applications of his formulations are examined in this text, in order to study developmental, personality... (more)
The recovery of unconscious memories: Hypermnesia and reminiscence
Integrating literatures from all areas of psychology, this text includes historical accounts, analysis of experiments, and treatment of topics from free-association and hypnosis to truth sera, to... (more)
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis
This collection of essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same- sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the... (more)
Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction
This fascinating book will bridge the gap between academic textbooks on psychoanalysis and the books written primarily for those training in the field. It will be of major interest to students of... (more)
The Metaphor of Play: Origin and Breakdown of Personal Being: 3rd Edition
Shows how borderline psychiatric patients can be treated by understanding their sense of self and the fragility of their sense of existence. Meares believes that the play of the pre-school child, and... (more)
The Dark Side of the Analytic Moon: A Memoir of Life in a Training Institute
Explores the pluses and minuses of contemporary psychotherapy training;, this work provides a memoir of Gerald Alper's training days as well as an overview of the pitfalls and dangers in contemporary... (more)
A Language for Psychosis: Psychoanalysis of Psychotic States
This volume brings together papers from a number of international writers who are concerned with understanding and treating psychoses. The orientation of the text is psychoanalytic, but it is also... (more)
Squiggles and Spaces (Volume 2): Revisiting the Work of D.W. Winnicott
A collection of papers from the international congress on Winnicott's work "The Psycho-Soma: From Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis" on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Playing and Reality.... (more)
Is There Life without Mother?: Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity
In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to... (more)
Totem and Taboo
Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when "Totem and Taboo" was first published in 1913, it caused outrage. Thorough and thought-provoking, the study remains the fullest... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Film
In full acknowledgment of the important cultural significance of film, this outstanding collection of psychoanalytic essays brings a methodological and theoretical sophistication to an absorbing... (more)
Herbert Rosenfeld at Work: The Italian Seminars
Between 1978 and 1985 Dr Herbert Rosenfeld was one of a number of British analysts invited by a group of Societa di Psicoanalisi Italiani members to conduct a series of seminars and supervisions for... (more)
The Delusional Person: Bodily Feelings in Psychosis
In a long and distinguished career Salomon Resnik has established himself as a psychoanalyst of international reputation. The present volume gathers together, for the first time in an English... (more)
Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King
This book is dedicated to Pearl King who is something of an institution in herself within psychoanalysis as well as an important contributor to the development of the institution of psychoanalysis.... (more)
Hannah Arendt
Twenty-five years after her death, we are still coming to terms with the controversial figure of Hannah Arendt. Interlacing the life and work of this 20th century philosopher, Julia Kristeva provides... (more)
A Pattern of Madness
Author of many respected psychoanalytic works including Narcissism: A New Theory, Emotion and Spirit, Making of a Psychotherapist and Spirit of Sanity, the distinguished psychoanalyst Neville... (more)
Continuity and Change in Psychoanalysis: Letters from Milan
'A collection of essays by a psychoanalyst who practices in a country whose language is not familiar to the majority of readers in the Anglo-Saxon world is to be heartily welcomed - all the more so... (more)
Freud and Freudians on religion: A reader
This volume presents selections from Freud's writings on religion and from the work of five more recent contributors to the psychoanalytic study of religion: David Bakan, Erik H. Erikson, Heinz... (more)
The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
This work explores the vagaries of Freud's impact over the 20th century, including controversial issues relating Freud to histiography of psychoanalysis. Other topics covered include "Freud Studies",... (more)
On the psychotheology of everyday life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig
This text puts Sigmund Freud in dialogue with Franz Rosenzwig in the service of re-imagining ethical and political life. Santner makes an argument for understanding revelation in theraputic terms and... (more)
Ship of Thought: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Learning
Learning is the most basic means by which we can change oursleves. Of all the activities of the mind, learning is perhaps the most fundamental, yet one of the most provocative and difficult to... (more)
Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
A decade in the making, the Handbook is the definitive contemporary exposition of interpersonal psychoanalysis. It provides an authoritative overview of development, psychopathology, and treatment as... (more)
Unconscious Wisdom: A Superego Function in Dreams, Conscience, and Inspiration
In a detailed engagement with the psychoanalytic theories of dreams, conscience, empathy, and creativity, Dan Merkur argues that the superego is an unconscious reasoning process, dedicated to the... (more)
Untying the Knot: Working with Children and Parents
Untying The Knot sets out to present a clinical approach to cases where the referred patient is a child or adolescent, but in which the parents are intimately involved in the therapeutic... (more)
The Mind's Affective Life: A Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Inquiry
This study contributes to the literature on the neglected "affective" dimensions of modern thought. It draws on psychoanalysis, philosophy, feminist theory and neuroscience to argue that we need to... (more)