Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
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)
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)
Soul Murder Revisited: Thoughts about Therapy, Hate, Love, and Memory
New in paperback. A reflection on the circumstances of child abuse, and on the consequences of this abuse. There are examples from literature and from clinical material. 328 pages. (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)
Freudian repression: Conversation creating the unconscious
This work presents a reformulation of Freud's concept of repression, showing that in his theory of the unconscious he fails to examine how people actually repress shameful thoughts. Drawing on... (more)
Women as therapists: A multitheoretical casebook
This book aims to advance the understanding of women who bring to their work as therapists the empathy and caring that are the cornerstone of successful treatment, regardless of their theoretical... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 1: The Emergence of a Tradition
A collection of papers by authors within the recent psychoanalytical trend towards models of mind and development grounded in object relations concepts. Introductions place each paper in its... (more)
Kohut's Freudian vision:
Interest in Kohut's work is now centred around self psychology. Prior to this, he was better known for his interpretations of Freudian theory. The author describes Kohut's approach to Freudian theory... (more)
Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
From the unfaithful husband to the binge eater, from the secret cross-dresser to the pilferer of worthless items, there are those who seem to live two lives, to be divided selves, to be literally of... (more)
Freudian Analysts / Feminist Issues
In this book Judith M. Hughes makes a highly original case for conceptualizing gender identity as potentially multiple. She does so by situating her argument within the history of psychoanalysis.... (more)