Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalytic Group Therapy
Karl Konig and Wulf-Volker Lindner have distilled their many years of research, rich clinical experience, and extensive theoretical knowledge of analytic group psychotherapy. Now, for the first time... (more)
The Language of Perversion and the Language of Love
Describes the development of the capacity for mature object love. It argues that people with perverse object relations have difficulty in dealing symbolically with the ambiguity of human relations... (more)
A Psychology of Difference: The American lectures
This work is made up of a collection of lectures given by Otto Rank, a disciple of Freud, between 1924 and 1934. Topics covered include: separation and individuation; projection and identification;... (more)
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.
Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the Self
Kohut believed that narcissistic vulnerabilites play a significant part in the suffering that causes people to seek treatment. The author uses examples from his own practice to show how Kohut's... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theories of Development: An Integration
Reviews the psychoanalytic literature on human development, and provides an original psychosexual theory based in the emotional, behavioural, cognitive and social. (more)
Unorthodox Freud: The View from the Couch
The authors examine the gulf between Freud's actual technique (the nature of the curative process on which it is based) and modern re-interpretations of it, which have been codified as the 'basic... (more)
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)
An Introduction to Object Relations
Presents a critical introduction to the work of Melanie Klein, D.W.Winnicott, W.R.D. Fairbairn, Michael Balint, H.J.S. Guntrip and John Bowlby. Subsequent chapters concentrate on the practice of... (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)
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.
The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology
The ground-breaking book which attempts to bridge the gap between the psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological theories of child development. (more)
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)