Psychoanalysis Books
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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)
Transference and Countertransference
When first published, Heinrich Racker's papers were quickly appreciated as a benchmark in the ongoing, although at the time underdeveloped, understanding of the vital importance of... (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.
Dream, Phantasy and Art
Symbolism, aesthetics, dreams, and psychotic thinking are explored by Segal, who integrates the ideas of Freud, Klein and Bion.
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)
Psycho-Analytic Insight and Relationships: A Kleinian Approach
Using theoretical exposition and case material, the author demonstrates how Klein's main concepts and theories illuminate the practice of social casework. (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)
Unimaginable Storms: A Search for Meaning in Psychosis
A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care... (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)
Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalyis (Hardback)
Fifteen eminent scholars and clinicians (including Andre Haynal, John Gedo, Axel Hoffer and Martin Bergmann) provide a comprehensive and rigorous examination of Ferenczi's legacy. The book is divided... (more)
Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst's Life
Although Sandor Rado's contributions to the development of psychoanalysis are beginning to be accepted, they have been characterised by controversy. This book contains an oral history of Rado's work,... (more)
Freud and His Followers
This study of Sigmund Freud, and his complex relationships with the men and women who formed his circle, focuses on the human dramas involved as well as the ideas of the participants. Roazen draws on... (more)
Thinking About Children
At his death in 1971, Donald Winnicott left unpublished a large number of papers, lectures and other writings which spanned his career of over forty years as a psychoanalyst and pediatrician. Since... (more)
Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk
A highly controversial study of the life and work of Victor Tausk, one of Freud's most gifted followers. Roazen draws on historical sources to support his thesis that Freud envied and feared Tausk,... (more)
Reading Freud: Explorations and Entertainments
Historian and Freud biographer, Peter Gay here offers insights into Freud's life and thought. In eight essays, Gay explores topics ranging from Freud and Shakespeare to Freud's favourite jokes, from... (more)