Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
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)
The Pre-Psychoanalytic Writings of Sigmund Freud
The traditional dating of the origin of psychoanalysis to 1900, when Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, ignores the massive body of work he produced well before this date. Covering fields... (more)
Psychoanalysis: The Major Concepts
New in paperback. A survey of current psychoanalytic theory and a discussion of its principles, technical aspects, clinical phenomena and applications. It should be useful both as an introduction to... (more)
Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
This is a critique of Freud's work, tracing its political content and context from his early writings to his late essays. It shows that when read politically Freud's discourse can be seen to unite... (more)
Freud and the institution of psychoanalytic knowledge:
Through an examination of Freud's writings on culture, psychoanalytic technique and the history of the psychoanalytic movement, this book offers a cultural history of the strategies Freud employed to... (more)
The Ferenczi-Groddeck Correspondence 1921-1933
A volume of the correspondence between Ferenczi and Groddeck, two psychoanalysts within the circle of Sigmund Freud. The letters bear witness to the friendship between the two men and reflect the... (more)
Woodrow Wilson: a psychological study:
330 pages. (more)
Dreams and Emotional Adaptation: A Clinical Notebook for Psychotherapists
In this groundbreaking book, Dr Langs invites you into his world. With this invitation comes a new understanding of dreams and the insights they hold. It offers an innovative method of attending to... (more)
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi: Volume 3: 1920-1933
This third and final volume of the correspondence between the founder of psychoanalysis and one of his most colourful disciples beings to a closer Sandor Ferenczi's and the story of one of the most... (more)
Heinz Kohut: The Chicago Institute Lectures
Delivered to advanced candidates at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. 432 pages. (more)
Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma and Dissociation
These collected papers constitute the unfolding of a clinical perspective - a series of reflections on the analytical relationship with its own implicit order, its own progression of ideas and its... (more)
Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
This volume brings together 14 papers by interpersonal pioneers. Collectively, they demonstrate the coherence and explanatory richness of interpersonal psychoanalysis, emphasizing relational patterns... (more)
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
A timely reprint of this classc work that was composed when Schreber, a distinguished German jurist, was confined to a mental hospital. It describes his world as an enormous architecture of nerves,... (more)
Terrifying transferences
This work shows therapists how to understand the process of trauma recreation. It discusses how to move with the client through the re- experiencing of the physical pain or the psychological terror,... (more)