Psychoanalysis Books
Tradition, Change, Creativity: Repercussions of the New Diaspora on aspects of British Psychoanalysis
A companion volume to It is a New Kind of Diaspora. Taking up where that book leaves off, it traces some of the consequences of the emigration of German and Austrian psychoanalysts to London,... (more)
Gender and Envy
This collection brings together classic and developing psychoanalytic theory to examine gender and envy. The essays include foundational works by Freud, Klein, and Horney through to the current... (more)
A Mind of One's Own: A Kleinian View of Self and Object
This collection of papers, written over the last six years by the author, focuses on the importance of distinguishing self from object in psychological development. He aims to demonstrate the... (more)
Bion's Legacy to Groups
'It is characteristic of some forms of scientific genius to alter not just what we see in the world, but how we see it - not just the view, but the lens. One thinks of Freud's discovery of the... (more)
Science, Systems and Psychoanalysis
This book has been written for a broad audience. It is addressed to anyone who is at all concerned with a scientific grounding for the art of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and for the... (more)
The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness: Second Edition
408 pages. A detailed account of one of the few systematic researches into the very special nature of the doctor/patient relationship. An important book, in that it provided an entirely new look at... (more)
Internal Objects Revisited
The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of transference... (more)
Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition: Philosophies of Life and Their Impact on Practice
What is psychoanalysis? Whereas there was once a time when proponents of "mainstream psychoanalysis" could point to the preeminence of Freud's drive theory and the version of the human condition... (more)
Female sexuality: Contemporary engagements
This text is a collaborative project from 15 psychoanalysts who each select a paper that has been influential in their clinical practice with women, and / or has served as a theoretical predecessor... (more)
Freud for historians
`A writer of brilliant allusiveness and scintillating style -- never better demonstrated than in this enormously enjoyable book.' John Keegan in The Sunday Times. 272 pages.
The unconscious and its narratives:
270 pages.
Countertransference and regression:
This text on psychotherapy argues that the analyst often fantasizes reciprocally, during the patient's reverie toward recovery of early psychological traumata. By tracking their fantasy experiences,... (more)
'It is a New Kind of Diaspora': Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis
Riccardo Steiner, one of the most well known historians of psychoanalysis has in the numerous papers in this volume traced the relationship between psychoanalysis and the larger cultural sphere with... (more)
On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of O
A scholarly adventure in post-Kleinian psychoanalytic thinking, strongly influenced by the work of Bion.
Shared Experience: The Psychoanalytic Dialogue
This book presents a way to formulate, from several points of view, "Psychoanalysis as an encounter between two persons", and highlights the aspects of symmetry and affective exchange of this... (more)
Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis
This book undertakes to demontrate that the relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis is more complex than adherants of either community generally recognize. Beginning with a brief... (more)
The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881
A collection of Freud's early correspondence with his
Speak of Me As I Am: The Life and Work of Masud Khan
Judy Cooper has unravelled the many enigmas and perplexities of Masud Khan's intriguing personality....a work of exquisite scholarship based on careful scrutiny of unpublished documents and extensive... (more)
Why Did Freud Reject God? A Psychodynamic Interpretation
A fascinating journey into Freud's past to examine the roots of his atheism, providing a psychodynamic interpretation of his rejection of God. (more)
Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience
In the early 1970s, Cioffi demonstrated that Freud falsified the account of his discovery of the Oedipus complex - an account that had gone unquestioned until that time. Moreover, Cioffi showed that... (more)
Remembering Trauma: A Psychotherapist's Guide to Memory and Illusion
This review of the controversy surrounding recovered memory relates the issues to a range of psychological therapies (not just psychoanalysis) and goes beyond the debate in order to demonstrate the... (more)
Reading Melanie Klein
Kleinian psychoanalysis has recently experienced a renaissance in academic and clinical circles. Reading Melanie Klein responds to the upsurge of interest in her work by bringing together the most... (more)
Knowledge and Authority in the Psychoanalytic Relationship
In this work, a dozen clinical theorists address the nature and impact of authority on the psychoanalytic situation, examining authority as 'rightness' (a matter of knowing) and authority as... (more)
Even Paranoids Have Enemies: New Perspectives in Paranoia and Persecution
'Even paranoids have enemies' is the reply Golda Meir is said to have made to Henry Kissinger who, during the 1973 Sinai talks, accused her of being paranoid for hesitating to grant further... (more)
Emotional rescue: The theory and practice of a feminist father
This text examines feminist mothering theory and psychoanalytic theories of narcissism. The author describes his effort to share in the care of his daughter during her first four years. The... (more)
The death of psychoanalysis: Murder? suicide? or rumor greatly exaggerated?
Psychoanalysis is in danger of becoming marginalized, if not extinct, contends Robert Prince. Questions asked by the contributors to this book include: will psychoanalysis survive?, and will it... (more)