Psychoanalysis Books
Phobia: A Reassessment
This volume in the seminal Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis Series is a daring reassessment of the psychoanalytic theory of phobia from numerous schools of thought.
This book should illuminate... (more)
Dilemmas in the Consulting Room
Every therapist is faced with dilemmas in the consulting room. While psychoanalysis has concentrated on the issues of theory and technique, there has not been much material available on the actual... (more)
Key Papers on Borderline Disorders: With IJP Internet Discussion Reviews
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series brings together the most important psychoanalytic papers in the journal's eighty-year history in a series of accessible monographs.... (more)
The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and The Administration of Enjoyment
Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how... (more)
Freud's Technique Papers: A Contemporary Perspective
This landmark book is a brilliant commentary on Freud's psychoanalytic technique and how it is incorporated in contemporary clinical practice. Freud's basic technique papers are included, so that the... (more)
Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting
Provides a practical yet sophisticated guide to the management of love and hate as they are experienced by both patient and therapist. (more)
Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children
James M. Herzog's Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children will quickly take its place both as a landmark contribution to developmental psychology and as an enduring classic in the... (more)
Dreams that Turn Over a Page: Paradoxical Dreams in Psychoanalysis
In this work Quinodoz discusses a particular type of dream that comes after a phase in analysis where integration has taken place. Accompanied by anxiety and fear, which seem surprising as the dream... (more)
The Clinical Exchange: Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems
This text offers ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. They integrate the findings of self psychology with developmental research that has refined understanding of the self as a... (more)
Trauma: Culture, Meaning and Philosophy
This volume argues that there are serious problems inherent in contemporary conceptualizations of how people react to trauma and the therapeutic responses developed. Drawing on anthropology,... (more)
Reflecting Psychoanalysis: Narrative and Resolve in the Psychoanalytic Experience
Acknowledging the influence of such thinkers as Bion, Winnicott, Lacan and Ricour Jurgen Reeder charts his own course in this 'exploration into my own standpoints'.
At the heart of this book is... (more)
The Pale Criminal: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
It was Freud, borrowing Nietszche's phrase from Thus Spake Zarathustra, who described as 'pale criminals' those who committed criminal acts out of deep-lying (unconscious) guilt. The focus of this... (more)
Outcomes of Psychoanalytic Treatment: Perspectives for Therapists and Researchers
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical psychotherapy remain an unparalleled source of insights into the unconscious determinants and dimensions of psychological suffering. This volume presents the... (more)
The Trauma of Freud: Controversies in Psychoanalysis
Despite its aloofness from ethical questions, psychoanalysis has attracted to itself an extraordinary degree of sectarian bitterness. Original thinkers have become condemned as dissidents. This title... (more)
Reason and Unreason: Psychoanalysis, Science and Politics
This work explores the justification and legitimacy of psychoanalytic knowledge, and its relevance to political and social questions. Part one explores the achievements of British psychoanalytic... (more)
Screen memories: Hollywood cinema on the psychoanalytic couch
This study explores the psychological aspects of film characters in mainstream American movies, ranging from "Casablanca" to "Rambo". Emphasis is placed on the personalities, conflicts and... (more)
The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-Evaluation
It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish. However, many changes have occurred in society which have changed the traditional... (more)
Pluralism in Self Psychology: Progress in Self Psychology: Vol. 15
This text conveys the rich pluralism of contemporary self psychology with respect to a central theoretical and clinical issue: the nature of the self and the manner in which is can best be studied.... (more)
The Freudian Subject
This book presents a new study of the key Freudian texts in which the author examines the relation between identification and desire, between desire and violence and between identification and object... (more)
Transference and transcendence:
This is an exploration of the work of Ernest Becker. It particularly looks at those insights that are applicable to the practice of psychotherapy and psychological and pastoral counselling. Becker's... (more)
How Responsive Should We Be?: Progress in Self Psychology: Vol. 16
Volume 16 of Progress in Self Psychology, How Responsive Should We Be, illuminates the continuing tension between Kohut's emphasis on the patient's subjective experience and the post-Kohutian... (more)
The Mark of Cain: Psychoanalytic insight and the Psychopath
This work covers topics such as the phallic-narcissistic character, treatment, risk management and psychodiagnosis, and the response aroused by the psychopath. Other issues include the antisocial... (more)
The Dimensions of Dreams: The Nature, Function and Interpretation of Dreams
One encyclopaedic volume of the vast knowedge modern science has been able to amass abou the world of dreams since Freud first published his groundbreaking Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. 431 pages. (more)
Primitive Experiences of Loss: Working with the Paranoid-Schizoid Patient
Taking as his starting point Melanie Klein's concept of the paranoid-schizoid position, and succinctly reviewing subsequent developments within the Kleinian perspective, Robert T. Waska formulates a... (more)