Psychoanalysis Books
Freud's literary culture:
This study investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud's creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland analyzes the whole range of Freud's own texts from a... (more)
The Collapse of the Self and Its Therapeutic Restoration
This volume seeks to encompass the historic and still extant between object- relations and self psychology. The author views the self as housing the dialectical interplay between its pathological and... (more)
Post-Kleinian Psychoanalysis: The Biella Seminars
Kenneth Sanders' book combines a historical approach to the literature of Freud, Klein and the Post Kleinian development, with demonstrations of the central role of dream analysis. Students and... (more)
W.R. Bion: Between Past and Future
A collection of papers on and about the work of Wilfred Bion and its continuing development. Most were presented at the International Centennial Conference on the work of Bion in Turin in 1997.... (more)
The Undead Mother
'A state of mourning is something that the late Twentieth Century has been uniquely unable to achieve. A culture based on the interchangeability of products and people, and a throw-away culture, is... (more)
Anna Freud: A view of development, disturbance and therapeutic techniques
This study takes a fresh look at the relatively unknown contributions of Anna Freud's work to psychoanalytical theory and child development. The book highlights how her work is still relevant and... (more)
Exploring the Work of Donald Meltzer: A Festschrift
This book is a tribute to Donald Melzer's extraordinary contribution to psychoanalysis. It includes many of the papers given at the Tavistock Centre in London to celebrate Meltzer's 75th Birthday. ... (more)
Personality and Mental Illness: An Essay in Psychiatric Diagnosis
A volume in the prestigious International Library of Psychology series originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such as Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, John... (more)
Freud and the problem of God:
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Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy
This early work by German psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann details the attributes needed for a successful psychiatrist and the processes involved in psychotherapy. A contemporary of Sigmund Freud,... (more)
Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalyis
Hungarian-born analyst Sandor Ferenczi was long one of the most influential and overlooked of Sigmund Freud's disciples. This book provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination by 15 eminent... (more)
Mental Slavery: Psychoanalytic Studies of Caribbean People
Mental Slavery is a unique and timely contribution to the field of trans-cultural psychoanalysis, casting light on an area previously neglected within mainstream psychoanalytic writing.
Barbara... (more)
Psychosis (Madness)
In this volume a number of British psychoanalysts introduce us to psychoanlaytic definitions of intra-psychic and subjective meaning in patients suffering psychotic conditions. Irrespective of the... (more)
Immaterial facts: Freud's Discovery of Psychic Reality and Klein's Development of His Work
The author demonstrates how Melanie Klein's studies of sexuality, aggression, unconscious phantasy and identification in children extended and corrected Freud's theories of the development of the... (more)
Freud's Birds of Prey
In a dramatic departure from his professional writing, Dr langs has written several plays. The audience is taken back to the rooms of Freud and his inner circle. As we are invited to listen in behind... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Kleinian Tradition
This set of papers, from members of the British Association of Psychotherapists, demonstrates the vitality of the 'Kleinian tradition' in work with adult patients. It is a picture of work from... (more)