Psychoanalysis Books
Other Times, Other Realities: Toward a theory of psychoanalytic treatment
This work looks at the fact that there is no theory that explains how psychoanalysis works. It considers Freudian theory, the interpretations of contemporary ego psychology, and the contributions of... (more)
The Wisdom of the Ego
Examines why it is that many deeply troubled youths nevertheless become well-adjusted, productive adults, by looking at the mind's defenses and how they evolve.
Freud in Exile: Psychoanalysis and its Vicissitudes
In June 1938 Sigmund Freud and his family arrived in London, exiles from Nazi-occupied Austria. Now, seventy years later, Freud's exile, together with the general exodus of psychoanalysts from the... (more)
Sexuality, War and Schizophrenia: Collected Psychoanalytic Papers
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Object Relations: A Dynamic Bridge Between Individual and Family Treatment
Integrating psychoanalysis and family therapy, this work demonstrates the significance of early childhood development and the effect of ongoing family interactions upon developmental arrest and... (more)
Jokes: Their Purpose and Meaning
This work examines jokes as a means of communicating emotionally our deepest anxieties and most basic conflicts and impulses. Strean illustrates how jokes allow us safe - if indirect - expression of... (more)
Music and the Mind
Argues that music is a significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before, and examines the psychological roots of the power of music.
Essential Papers on Transference Analysis
In this review of transference as a powerful therapeutic tool, the contributors highlight the importance of its here and now analysis and identify patient and therapist resistance to the transference... (more)
Countertransference: The Therapist's Contribution to the Therapeutic Situation
The contributors to this volume share a common perception that countertransference can serve as a powerful tool within psychoanalytic treatment.
Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach
In this sequel to "Structures of Subjectivity" (1984), the authors apply the intersubjective approach to clinical issues critical to psychoanalytic therapy, including the analysis of transference,... (more)
The Analysis of the Transference in the Here and Now
A contemporary approach to transference analysis that emphasises the importance of the here and now, and elucidates the resistance that patients and therapists experience in the analysis of their... (more)
A Narrative Textbook of Psychoanalysis
A presentation of psychoanalytic theory and practice with the criticisms and comments of experts in ego psychology and object relations theory. The work covers Freudian theory and present-day U.S.... (more)
Psychic Experience and Problems of Technique
By examining changes in the patient's experience of 'inner space', this book records the development of the author's understanding of the patient's experience and its vicissitudes. The book goes on... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Development: Representations and Narratives
Explores the relationship between 'representation' and 'narration' and how they have developed the language of therapy and theories of psychoanalysis and development.
In Freud's Shadow
325 pages.
The Intersubjective Perspective
Intersubjectivity focuses on the reciprocal, mutual influence between patient and therapist. The book explores the implications of this perspective for clinical practice. The approach calls for a... (more)
Emotion and Spirit
Psychoanalysis, with Freud as its founder, has vehemently denied the value of religious belief. In this radical book, re-issued with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Jon Stokes, Neville... (more)
Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory
'In my judgment, the authors have made a strong case for the proposition that the structure of a theorist's metapsychology will duplicate the structure of his subjective world, laid down mainly by... (more)
The Ego and Analysis of Defense: Second Edition
'The Ego and Analysis of Defense' represents a major advance in analytic technique. This book, together with the series of seminal journal articles he published over the past thirty years are a... (more)
Hidden Conversations: An Introduction to Communicative Psychoanalysis
Hidden Conversations introduces Robert Langs radical reinterpretation of psychoanalysis by presenting and expanding his ideas in new and accessible ways. It is the first clear account of the theories... (more)
Middle Class Waifs
280 pages.
Phantasy in Everyday Life: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Understanding Ourselves
Over the past fifty years dramatic ideas and discoveries have arisen out of the work of analysts. In Phantasy in Everyday Life Julia Segal is mainly concerned with Melanie Klein's contribution to... (more)
Using Self Psychology in Psychotherapy
Presents the theoretical basis and psychotherapeutic applictions of self-psychology to a wide range of ages and dysfunctional states.
Dream, Phantasy and Art
Symbolism, aesthetics, dreams, and psychotic thinking are explored by Segal, who integrates the ideas of Freud, Klein and Bion.