Psychoanalysis Books
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)
The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique
Analyzes the profound effects of the Holocaust devastation on the lives of the children of survivors as well as the children of Nazi leaders. (more)
Disappearing and Reviving: Sandor Ferenczi in the History of Psychoanalysis
This book is an indispensable work for anyone interested in the pioneering psychoanalyst Sandor Ferenczi.
As the supervisor of the recently published correspondence between Freud and Ferenczi,... (more)
Imagination and Reality: Psychoanalytical Essays 1951-1961
A collection of essays, introduced by Masud Khan and J.D. Sutherland, on a variety of subjects including: observations on a case of vertigo; on idealization, illusion, and catastrophic disillusion;... (more)
Hidden questions, clinical musings:
The essays in this collection reflect the lived experience of the author, a psychoanalyst. His writing offers a vision of psychoanalytic inquiry that blends art and science, and where the questions... (more)
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)
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)