Psychoanalysis Books
Michael Balint: Object Relations, Pure and Applied
This work outlines Michael Balint's contributions to psychoanalysis, including the interdependence of mother and infant, the secondary nature of narcissism, the use of transference and... (more)
Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as:
"An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of genuine brilliance on Freud's cultural importance . . . a permanently... (more)
Hope: A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States
In this work, Anna Potamianou shows how - in the borderline patient - hope can become an omnipotent means of denying reality. She gives both clinical and literary examples of how this ocurrs and goes... (more)
Freud and Philosophy: An Essay in Interpretation
If Paul Ricoeur is correct in seeing the various currents of contemporary philosophy all converging on the problem of a "grand philosophy of language," then the first sixty pages of this absorbing... (more)
Clinical and Observational Psychoanalytic Research: Roots of a Controversy - Andre Green & Daniel Stern
Few topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. The text collects papers from a London conference, along... (more)
The Function of the Orgasm
This book describes Reich's medical and scientific work on the living organism from his first efforts at the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1919 to the laboratory experiments in Oslo... (more)
The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis
Links the phenomena of loneliness to unresolved separation anxiety. (more)
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi: Volume 2: 1914-1919
This second volume of three covers the events during World War I. Uncertainty pervades these letters: Will Ferenczi be called up? Will food, fuel and cigar shortages continue? Will Freud's enlisted... (more)
Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud's Wolf Man
An original reading of Freud's most famous case history, concentrating on representation and difference. (more)
Attachment Across the Life Cycle
Using contemporary research and clinical data, this book examines the extent to which psychological problems are rooted in early mother/child relations.
Damaged Bonds
'It is one of life's chilling characteristics that bonds that nourish also damage. We are formed and malformed at the same time. In an earlier work, Toxic Nourishment (1999), I explored the ways that... (more)
Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference
In this work, the author discusses gender issues from the perspective of developmental psychoanalysis. She makes a case for what she calls gender heterodoxy - a view of the similarities and... (more)
Translating Freud
Examines the translation of Freud's work into English, French and Spanish, and how this affects its meaning. Contributors include Patrick Mahony and Jean Laplanche.
Cultivating Freud's Garden in France
Marion Oliner's Cultivating Freud's Garden in France is really two books. One (the "first" book) is a general study of psychoanalysis in France. The other (the "second" book) is a group of specific... (more)
Object Relations Theory and Practice: An Introduction
This text offers a representative sample of the work of the major contributors to object relations theory and therapy. The development of object relations thinking from its beginnings in the work of... (more)
The Evolution of the Emotion-Processing Mind
In attempting to unify psychoanalytic and evolutionary theories, Langs offers a concise account of the most current versions of Darwinian and neo-Darwinian theory. He then develops the arguement that... (more)
The freedom to inquire: self psychological perspectives on women's issues, masochism, and the therapeutic relationship
This text presents the work of Ester Menaker. Never a follower of a particular psychoanalytic perspective or dogma, she has always questioned prevailing orthodoxy. The result is a self psychological... (more)
Returns of the French Freud: Freud, Lacan and Beyond
This study examines the complex relationships between Freudian and Lacanian theory and philosophy, feminism, anthropology, communications theory, deconstruction, Foucauldian genealogy and medical... (more)
The Psychology of Men: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
A reprint of this compilation of psychoanalytic papers on what lies behind men's adolescent and homosexual struggles, their attempts to meet the challenge of fatherhood, the myth of invulnerability... (more)
the Cambridge Companion to Freud
Approaching Freud not only from the philosophical, but also historical, psychoanalytical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives, the contributors show how Freud gave us a new and powerful... (more)
The Dream in Clinical Practice
These essays place dreams and theories about dreams in a clinical context.
Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex and the Birth of the Self
Attempts to establish a solid and systematic foundation for the modern study of affect, by combining the discoveries of both psychology and physiology.
The Many Faces of Shame
This is the first volume to capture the range of current viewpoints on the subject of shame. As editor, Donald Nathanson has not only assembled internationally prominent authorities in the field, but... (more)
Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion
John Farrell analyzes the personality and thought of Sigmund Freud in order to give insight into modernity's paranoid character and into the true nature of Freudian psychoanalysis. John Farrell's... (more)
Obsessional Neuroses
A review of the literature in this area with particular emphasis on the work of Freud. (more)