Psychoanalysis Books
Psychic Deadness
Many people seek help because they feel dragged down by a sense of inner deadness that persists in an otherwise full and meaningful life. These individuals somehow remain untouched by their own inner... (more)
Projective Identification in the Clinical Setting: The Kleinian Interpretation
Projective Identification in the Clinical Setting presents a detailed study of Kleinian literature, setting a background of understanding for the day-to-day analytic atmosphere in which projective... (more)
Touch: Attachment and the Body
Drawn from the Bowlby Memorial Lecture, founded in commemoration of the influential Dr John Bowlby, this volume explores issues of the body and the historically taboo subject of touch in... (more)
Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide
A half-century of psychotherapy research has shown that the quality of the therapeutic alliance is the most robust predictor of treatment success. This unique book provides a systematic framework for... (more)
Nameless: Understanding Learning Disability
Attempts to understand learning disabilities in terms of psychoanalysis and socio-psychology, but without distinguishing between a primary organic handicap and a secondary psychological one. The... (more)
Who Owns Psychoanalysis?
So who does own psychoanalysis? Equally pertinent, what is psychoanalysis? Even before the death of Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis was splintering into different groups, each convinced of their... (more)
Dialogues on Sexuality, Gender and Psychoanalysis
‘There are more questions than answers in this book - questions that are important and will continue to intrigue us. This book will be needed to remind us of the different opinions and to help us... (more)
The Mind of the Paedophile: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
The Mind of the Paedophile discusses one of the most controversial and misunderstood subjects in the psychoanalytic arena today - paedophilia. A variety of treatments and therapies, including brain... (more)
Power of Understanding: Essays in Honour of Veikko Tahka
Psychoanalysis keeps on evolving and rather than going over theories already vocalised, this collection of important papers introduces new ideas and theories along with valuable clinical material.... (more)
Influential Papers from the 1920s
A collection of papers from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis that were originally published in the 1920s. The papers are divided into their subject matter and contextualised through... (more)
Fifty Years of Attachment Theory: The Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture
This is the second volume in the series based on the annual Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture. Sir Richard Bowlby looks at the personal and professional lives of Donald Winnicott and Dr John Bowlby,... (more)
Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self
In a brilliant examination of the frontiers of human emotion and cognition, four prominent psychoanalysts combine the perspectives of developmental psychology, attachment theory and psychoanalytic... (more)
Notes on the Aniconic: The Foundations of Psychology in Ontology
'Eric Rhode seeks to explore a domain that has long been missing in psychoanalytic psychology, the ineffable domain of ontology or existence. He describes a multi-layered, numinous domain that... (more)
Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it... (more)
Selected Contributions to Psycho-Analysis
A welcome reissue of the collected papers of John Rickman, originally published in 1957, with a new preface by Pearl King. It spans 30 years of Rickman's rapidly-expanding psychoanalytic research in... (more)
The Vale of Soulmaking: The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind
The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the "internal object" with its... (more)
The Blind Man Sees: Freud's Awakening and Other Essays
The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus in the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a... (more)
Mapping the Mind: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
This reissued classic text is a comprehensive guide to the basics that shows simply how things work. Each chapter begins with a precis to relate the contents to the wider context and the book ends... (more)
Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis
This work presents a complete history of psychoanalysis from its origins in 19th-century medical science to the end of the 20th century. The origins of psychoanalysis as well as the more immediate... (more)
Research on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults
Volume 7 in the EFPP Series that aims to promote the pan-European community of psychoanalytic psychotherapists. The contributors come from different cultures but are united in their view of the... (more)
The Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema
A collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors,... (more)
Influential Papers from the 1950s
The 1950s were a pivotal era in psychoanalysis. It was a time when psychoanalytic attention turned from the exploration of the internal world to the external. The influence of object relational ideas... (more)
The Dove in the Consulting Room: Hysteria and the Anima in Bollas and Jung
Drawing on the works of Jung, Hillman and Giegrich, the author provides a rich rejoinder to Bollas's proposed theory of hysteria, and provides a unique Jungian analysis of analysis itself - both... (more)
Insight and Interpretation: The Essential Tools of Psychoanalysis
Insight and interpretation are crucial tools of the psychoanalytic process that have been neglected and misunderstood in recent psychoanalytic literature, where the focus has shifted to the effects... (more)
Bad Feelings: Selected Psychoanalytic Essays
Everyone experiences "bad" feelings - guilt, shame, humiliation, envy and more. Yet despite the fact that such emotions are a common occurrence, these painful feelings are often labelled as wrong, a... (more)
Spirit and Psyche: A New Paradigm for Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This book explores the expanding literature on spirituality as an important dimension of psychology, and explains the relationship between psychological treatment and spiritual healing. The author... (more)
Donald Winnicott The Man: Reflections and Recollections
The Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture given by Joyce McDougall.
This lecture is an annual event designed for a wide audience of professionals and others involved with children. These lectures... (more)
Optimal Responsiveness: How Therapists Heal Their Patients
A new generation of dynamic therapists is taking a fresh look at what actually heals the patient. In contrast to the classical vision, whose essential feature is intervention by interpretation in an... (more)