Psychoanalysis Books
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)
The Dove That Returns, The Dove That Vanishes: Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis
The nature of psychoanalysis seems contradictory - deeply personal, subjective and intuitive, yet requiring systematic theory and principles of technique. In The Dove that Returns, The Dove that... (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)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Independent Tradition
This book is a collection of papers to which seven senior members of the British Association of Psychotherapists have contributed. Each essay discusses a problem or impasse the author has encountered... (more)
My three mothers and other passions:
A candid portrait of the struggles of the author - the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud - in her own life. Blessed and cursed with a famous family, she has negotiated her way from a blissful Viennese... (more)
The unconscious
The topic of "the unconscious" has figured largely in literary studies for some time. This text approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. It shows the existence... (more)
Tales from the Freudian crypt: The death drive in text and context
Writing from the perspective of intellectual history, this work traces the impact that Freud's essay "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" has had on 20th- century thought. (more)
The Psychoanalytic Study of Lives Over Time: Clinical and Research Perpectives on Children Who Return to Treatment in Adulthood
A group of international analytic clinicians and researchers all comment on three child analytic situations where the patient has returned to treatment in adulthood. They compare findings from the... (more)
Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and the Making of Early Modern Culture
Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? The contributors of this book explore the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union of history and subjectivity in Europe... (more)
Freud and psychoanalysis:
Combining a comprehensive account of Freudian theory with a synthesis of contemporary psychoanalysis, this volume details the development of analytic theory. The author traces this evolution from the... (more)
Psychologically speaking: A book of quotations
From 'abilities' to 'xenophobia', this is a collection of over 3000 quotations on the human mind and behaviour, providing a rich source of important, witty, and insightful comments on a diverse range... (more)
A Primer of Adlerian Psychology: The Analytic-Behavioural-Cognitive Psychology of Alfred Adler
"A Primer of Adlerian Psychology" offers an accessible, yet very learned, introduction to Adlerian Psychology. Also known as Individual Psychology, the approach stresses the unity of the individual,... (more)
Working in depth: A clinician's guide to framework and flexibility in the analytic relationship
Two psychotherapists articulate a vision for achieving a balance between the requirements for emotional safety and the dangers inherent in change. Their primary concern is to identify the ideas and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Participation: Action, Interaction and Integration
Topics in this volume include: the meaning of a two-person treatment model; the psychoanalyst's participation of the new role for action and external reality; and the analyst and the role of... (more)
The impact of narcissism: The errant therapist on a chaotic quest
Narcissism plays an increasingly important role in therapy today. Replete with clinical material, this work focuses on the interplay of narcissism and countertransference in therapy, demonstrating... (more)
The Erik Erikson reader
With writings from Erikson's entire career, inluding "Childhood and Society", "Insight and Responsibility", "Young Man Luther" and "Ghandi's Truth", this reader charts his influence on thinking on... (more)
Bion, Rickman, Foulkes and the Northfield experiments: Advancing on a different front
A study of the Northfield Experiments, which were conducted during World War II, marking an important moment in the development of psychiatry and in the therapeutic community movement. The book... (more)
The Interpretation of Dreams (original 1899 version)
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud's original argument, unmodified by... (more)
Psychoanalytic clinical practice
The author selects and presents eighteen of his most salient clinical papers and draws on his forty years of clinical experience to discuss the factors which he feels have the potential to bring... (more)
The Edge of Experience: Borderline and Psychosomatic Patients in Clinical Practice
Traditionally, the development of psychoanalysis has been based on the study of 'neurotic' patients, for the most part displaying classic symptoms of hysteria, obsessive-compulsion and depression.... (more)
Psychoanalytic Case Formulation
What kinds of questions do experienced therapists ask themselves when facing a new client? How can clinical expertise be taught? From the author of the landmark "Psychoanalytic Diagnosis" (catalogue... (more)
The therapeutic process: Essays and lectures
This volume of essays provides a record of Karen Horney's ideas about the therapeutic process. She discusses countertransference phenomena and the ways in which a therapist's personality can... (more)