Psychoanalysis Books
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 Theatre of the Dream
The Theatre of the Dream is a profound study of our dream world and its place in everyday life. The author grounds his ideas in Freud and psychoanalyst authors such as Klein, Bion, Rosenfeld and... (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)
Elaborate Selves: Reflections and Reveries of Christopher Bollas, Michael Eigen, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Samuel and Evelyn Laeuchli, and Marie Coleman Nelson
In this fascinating volume, Anthony Molino interviews some of today's foremost thinkers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Organized around the fertile and controversial concept of multiplicity,... (more)
Kleinians: Psychoanalysis Inside Out
Janet Sayers tells the story of the revolution in psychology pioneered by psychoanalyst Melanie Klein through an account of the personal and public lives of its main architects, their families and... (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)
The Violence of Interpretation: From Pictogram to Statement
This translation of Piera Aulagnier's theory bridges the work of Winnicott and Lacan, putting forward a theory of psychosis based on children's early experiences. It presents his analysis of the... (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)
Art, Creativity, Living
This volume in the Winnicott Studies series is dedicated to the life and work of Marion Milner and reflects, in varying ways, her unique use of Winnicott's work to shape her own thinking about art... (more)
Psycho/Analytic Psychotherapy Trainings: A Guide
This title explores the evolutionary history of training in psychotherapy, the institutions they came from, and the main ideas that supported them. It also explores the professionalization of... (more)
Freud revisited: Psychoanalytic themes in the postmodern age
This work examines some of Freud's themes considered relevent today: psychoanalysis as a form of narrative construction, the creative nature of memory, the revolutionary nature of the knowledge... (more)
Freud in the Pampas: The emergence and development of a psychoanalytic culture in Argentina, 1910- 1983
This is a history of how psychoanalysis became an essential element of Argentine culture. The book reveals the unique conditions and historical process that made this possible and shows why the... (more)
Freud: A Very Short Introduction
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis, Freud developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology which became... (more)
Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity
An analysis of relationality, from attachment to intersubjectivity. Topics covered include: the psychoanalytic vision of Hans Loewald; attachment theory and relationality; Fairbairn's theory of... (more)
Looking for ground: Countertransference, epistemology, and the problem of value
This work explores countertransference, epistemology, and the problem of value. It covers: Freud's beginnings; gratification, virtue, and the therapeutic process; reality testing and the pleasure... (more)
Dreaming and Thinking
This book includes papers on the dream space and countertransference, the dream space, the analytic situation and eating disorders, dreams of borderline patients and the 'oracle' in dreams: the past... (more)
Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide
The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite... (more)
Psychoanalytic Conversations: Interviews with Clinicians, Commentators, and Critics
In this study, Peter Rudnytsky presents ten substantive and provocative interviews with leading analysts (Enid Balint, Charles Rycroft, Stephen A. Mitchell, Roy Schafer, Jessica Benjamin), with... (more)
On moving and being moved: Non-verbal behavior in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This work examines non-verbal behaviour in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and covers topics such as: talking and acting; attunement; temperament, interaction and self; and the body. (more)