Psychoanalysis Books
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The eighteen papers which form this collection by Ernst Federn, some of them previously unpublished, are grouped under four headings: (1) On social Psychology, (2) On the Psychology of Terror and...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 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)
Psycho-Analytic Object Relations Therapy
Written for the student and beginner, this book explains the basic clinical concepts, practices and principles of psychoanalytic object relations therapy. Basic concepts, technical considerations in... (more)
The Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy
An introduction to the practice of analytic therapy. This text deals with the basic phenomena of therapy: transference, unconscious fantasy, character and regression. (more)
Borderline Patients, the Psychosomatic Focus, and the Therapeutic Process
Discusses the psychotherapy of patients in the borderline spectrum, as well as those suffering from psychosomatic problems. The author emphasizes the importance of the holding environment and of... (more)
The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective
Why is it that victims of abuse so often become perpetrators, and what can psychoanalysis offer to these survivor-perpetrators, whose criminal conduct seems to transcend the possibilities of empathic... (more)
The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture.
New in paperback. The author of this text claims that psychoanalysis offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility, insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of good... (more)
Houdini's Box: The Art of Escape
This explores the lives of four different escape artists: a little girl playing her own wayward version of hide and seek; Harry Houdini who electrifies the world through a series of escapes; a man... (more)
Disorders of the Self: New Therapeutic Horizons - The Masterson Approach
In this incisive new volume, the study and treatment of the disorders of the self have been carried forward by Dr James Masterson and his students, who have now become his colleagues. It addresses... (more)
The Patient's Impact on the Analyst
The question of how psychoanalysts are affected by their patients is of perennial interest. The author of this book explores the issue on the basis of a research project that obtained data from 399... (more)
Logics of the Mind: A Clinical View
This collection of papers, spanning the last 15 years, presents a spirited defence of Freud's clinical method, considering the "crisis of psychoanalysis" in the wider context of a crisis of... (more)
Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
According to the popular imagination, psychoanalysis is about men wanting to sleep with their mothers and women wanting penises. This book tells a different story about what has happened to sex in... (more)