Psychoanalysis Books
Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism
Offers a broad-ranging perspective of the contemporary debates surrounding social constructionist perspectives in psychology. The contributors map connections between theory, method, and politics in... (more)
The Analyst's Preconscious
How do the analyst's consciously held theoretical commitments intersect with the actual conduct of analysis? This text explores this question, revolving around in-depth interviews with 65 analysts in... (more)
The World of Self Psychology: Progress in Self Psychology: Vol. 14
Volume 14 of Progress in Self Psychology, The World of Self Psychology, introduces a valuable new section to the series: publication of noteworthy material from the Kohut Archives of the Chicago... (more)
The sovereign self: toward a phenomenology of self experience:
This work contends that a human being cannot thrive unless his social group acknowledges and values his intrinsic authentic self. Individuals denied such acknowledgement will fill the resulting void... (more)
The Privacy of the Self
The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of Masud Khan's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work. He was nurtured in the tradition of Anna Freud,... (more)
The Facilitating Partnership: A Winnicottian Approach for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
This text concentrates on key Winnicottian concepts that are suited to agency-based social work-practice with people whose psychological well-being has been compromised by acute disruption or trauma,... (more)
Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice
From an overview of the basic principles of intersubjectivity theory, this text proceeds to contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytic... (more)
Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis:
In this text on psychoanalysis, hermeneutics and social constructivism, Donnel Stern explores the relationship between two fundamental kinds of experiences: explicit verbal reflection and... (more)
Psychological Writings and Letters
A substantive introduction by Sandor Gilman, is followed by selections from some of Freud's most important writings: Letters to Fliess, On Dreams, Infantile Sexuality, The Uncanny, Delusions and... (more)
Essays on Otherness
Jean Laplanche is an incisive and important representative of contemporary psychoanalytic theorists. This text presents in English many of Laplanche's key essays and also provides an overview of his... (more)
Where Analysis Meets the Arts: The Integration of the Arts Therapies with Psychoanalytic Theory
This book aims to provide the reader with a theoretical framework that considers how psychoanalysis can enrich the clinical application of the arts therapies. Five specialist arts therapies used in... (more)
Body and soul: the role of object relations in faith, shame, and healing:
Object relations theory, recognized in this book as the epistemological basis for modern psychoanalysis, entails some unpopular and unorthodox ideas. The author demonstrates this whilst addressing... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Race
This collection of essays studies the seemingly permanent racial undercurrents of society, focusing on unconscious fantasies and identities. The essays engage with postcolonial, political and... (more)
Psychology and the Soul: A Study of the Origin, Conceptual Evolution, and Nature of the Soul.
An accessible translation of Rank's now classic work on religion and the soul. His commentary is not limited to beliefs about individual souls, but includes ideas about group souls. He suggests that... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Controversies and the Future
In this, the sixth volume in the highly successful monograph series produced under the auspices of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Services (EFPP), the... (more)
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)
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)
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)
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