Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
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)
Unconscious Mental Life and Reality
It is the aim of the present collection of seminal essays to offer a balanced yet rigorous examination of the durability and contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis, understood as a comprehensive... (more)
Witnessing Psychoanalysis: From Vienna back to Vienna via Buchenwald and the USA
The eighteen papers which form this collection by Ernst Federn, some of them previously unpublished, are grouped under four headings: (1) On social Psychology, (2) On the Psychology of Terror and... (more)
The Ego at the Center of Clinical Technique:
This text emphasises the role of the ego in our understanding of and interventions in the therapeutic setting. It examines the ways the ego defends awareness of unconscious fantasies, how defences... (more)
Freud, psychoanalysis, social theory: the unfulfilled promise
Freud, Psychoanalysis, Social Theory explores the parallel decline of psychoanalysis which, as psychoanalysts themselves testify, has lost its position as a vital source for innovative cultural... (more)
The Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy
In recent decades, attachment theory has gained widespread interest and acceptance. However the relevance of attachment theory to clinical practice has never been clear. With Search for the Secure... (more)
The Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis
Despite the importance of the concept of hope in human affairs, psychoanalysts have long had difficulty accepting responsibility for the manner in which their various interpretive orientations and... (more)
The Spirit of Sanity
A rare and unusual consideration of the spiritual dimensions of sanity from a psychoanalytic perspective, this transcription of a series of seven lectures delivered at the Tavistock Clinic capture... (more)
Freud and Judaism
After first having been denied, the Jewish element in the works of Freud has been variously studied from many different points of view.
In this wide-ranging collection, there can be found... (more)
Anxiety as Symptom and Signal
These papers consider the many levels of meaning of "anxiety" and the ways anxiety functions in the analytic process. (more)
Attachment and Intersubjectivity
This book focuses on the understanding of the epistemological roots of attachment theory, conceptualised as a psychoanalytic paradigm, which highlights movement away from a 'one-person psychology' to... (more)
The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis
In The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis, Arnold Goldberg trains a searching, critical eye on his own profession. His subject matter is the system of interlocking constraints - theoretical,... (more)
Are you considering psychoanalysis?:
Explains the nature, schools, procedures, and goals of psychoanalysis to assi the prospective patient in understanding, accepting, and successfully experiencing the therapeutic process. (more)
Participant observation: The psychotherapy schools in action
Describes the unique features of participant observation psychotherapy. The book also compares and contrasts the Sullivan methods with classical psychoanalysis, existential psychotherapy and... (more)