Psychoanalysis Books
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.
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.
Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Entering the tumultuous, dissociated world of the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse presents an intimidating challenge for clinicians. But as the authors of this innovative book argue,... (more)
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.
The Story of Anna O
An examination of the life of Anna O, the woman who Freud never met, yet who - in treatment under Breuer - invented psychoanalysis with her notions of 'talking cure' and 'chimney sweeping'.
Refinding the Object and Reclaiming the Self
This book adds to the rich tradition of object relations thinking and enlivens psychotherapy. (more)
A Psychoanalyst Explores the Alternate Therapies
The major non-psychoanalytic therapies are critically examined from the point of view of U.S. psychoanalysis. An interesting overview of the both the spectrum of therapies available and the future... (more)
The Personal Relations Therapy: Collected Papers of H.J.S.Guntrip
Collected papers by Harry Guntrip, with a critical introduction. A key figure in British Psychoanalysis, Guntrip was analysed by Fairbairn and Winnicott and drew his theories from both. The papers... (more)
The contributions of Harry Stack Sullivan
An outline of Sullivan's work which highlights the importance of an intersubjective perspective in psychotherapy. Topics addressed include: the place of tenderness in infancy, the centrality of... (more)
Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Textbook
In Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text, Frank Summers provides thorough, lucid, and critically informed accounts of the work of major object relations theorists:... (more)
The Emotional Experience of Learning and Teaching
Our learning in infancy, and for a considerable period afterwards, takes place in a dependent relationship to another human being. The quality of this relationship is vitally important for our... (more)
Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis
Examines theories of sexual difference from a Kleinian and a Lacanian perspective, and the application of these issues in the practice of treating sexual violence and child abuse. (more)
Doing Supervision and Being Supervised
There is always a lively interest in the supervisory process and its explication. Courses in supervision abound and the critical role of supervision in becoming a psychotherapist is widely... (more)
Freud and Oedipus
Freud and Oedipus reassesses Freud's central concept of the Oedipus complex from the interlocking perceptives of biography, intellectual history, and Greek tragedy. Drawing on a wealth of primary and... (more)
Training and teaching the mental health professional: An in-depth approach
Examining the teaching and learning process from a psychoanalytic perspective, this study also considers the metamorphic implications of the educational setting as a holding environment for teacher,... (more)