Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Postmodern Self-Psychology: Progress in Self-Psychology: Vol. 18
This work covers the several tributaries of self-psychological thought in the decades after Kohut and continues with an elaboration of "reflective relativism" as a self-psychological way out of... (more)
The Troubled Mind of Northern Ireland: An Analysis of the Emotional Effects of the Troubles
The "Troubles" in Northern Ireland have endured for so long that eventually the abnormal has become normal. This volume examines the processes by which society has become gradually dehumanised, and... (more)
Analyst of the Imagination: The Life and Work of Charles Rycroft
Charles Rycroft's lucid jargon-free approach to psychoanalysis inspired a whole generation. Taking inspiration from many fields outside psychoanalysis, including history, literature, linguistics and... (more)
You Ought To!: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Superego and Conscience
The superego is one of those psychoanalytic concepts that has been assimilated into ordinary language, like repression, the unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Because it has become such a familiar... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Art: Kleinian Perspectives
This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art.
Sandra... (more)
Acquainted with the Night: Psychoanalysis and the Poetic Imagination
This book explores some of the ways in which an understanding of poetry, and the poetic impulse, can be fruitfully informed by psychoanalytic ideas. It could be argued that there is a particular... (more)
The Learning Relationship: Psychoanalytic Thinking in Education
This book offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational institutions. It looks at the origins of learning in... (more)
Key Papers in Literature and Psychoanalysis
Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams, psychoanalysis and literature have had a fruitful if often distrusting... (more)
Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis
In her earlier books, Susan Kavaler-Adler identified healthy mourning for traumas and life changes as an essential aspect of successful analysis, and drew the distinction between a healthy... (more)
No Ordinary Psychoanalyst: The Exceptional Contributions of John Rickman
John Rickman had a deep impact on psychoanalysis, combining a deep knowledge thereof with an avid interest in social psychology, to the benefit of both. He was a fresh thinker, always innovative,... (more)
The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis
'Coles' book starts from the claim that traditionally psychoanalysis, in stressing the relations of conflict between children and parents, has tended to overlook and displace the co-operative... (more)
Time Present and Time Past
This remarkable collection of papers is divided into three sections: clinical issues; psychoanalysis and the life cycle; and underlying theories of practice. The papers span the years 1951 to 2004,... (more)
Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis
Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Paranormal: Lands of Darkness
'The space of the paranormal can indeed be frightening. But psychoanalysis specializes in entering and tolerating frightening spaces. Why should this one be an exception?'
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Psychoanalysis and Management: The Transformation
David Gutmann is a highly successful consultant to leading institutions and organisations. In this enriching and challenging dialogue with the Italian journalist Oscar Iarussi, he brings his passion... (more)
Psychic Hooks and Bolts: Psychoanalytic Work with Children Under Five and their Families
'In this book it is made plain that complex and powerful understanding can take place in brief work. The baby's development is carried forward, the family re-groups differently, and understanding... (more)
Shame and Jealousy
A volume in the Psychoanalytic Ideas Series, published for the Institute of Psychoanalysis by Karnac. Here, shame and jealousy are examined as hidden turmoils; as basic human feelings found in... (more)
Lesbian lives: Psychoanalytic narratives old and new
This text focuses on developmental and psychological consequences of identifying as homosexual and having lesbian relationships. It covers: lesbian adolescents; "coming out"; interaction of... (more)
Child Analysis Today
Although there have been many other important contributions to the field of child and adolescent analysis, the major differences in theory and approach still bear the hallmarks of three of the most... (more)
Unconscious Phantasy
'There is no doubt that "phantasy" or "unconscious phantasy", as it started to be used in the English translation of Freud's work in the late 1920s and 1930s to differentiate it from "fantasy", is... (more)
The dream frontier
This work contains topics such as vectors of dream interpretation, homonyms and other word play in dreams, what dreams can tell us about the brain, and how to analyze dreams. (more)
The Vitality of Objects: Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas
This collection of essays reflects the far-reaching, multi-dimensional influence of Christopher Bollas. Bollas galvanises our understanding of what happens when people encounter the objects - the... (more)