Psychoanalysis Books
The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, New Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process
This important new work connects evolutionary biological concepts to modern psychoanalytic theory and the clinical encounter. Synthesizing their years of experience in the practice of psychotherapy... (more)
Essential Papers on Suicide
A collection of 40 papers looking at the psychodynamics of Suicide from a variety of perspectives. (more)
Shame: The Underside of Narcissism
Offers a thorough and critically-minded review of the literature on shame, integrating major concepts from object-relations and self psychology to arrive at a new understanding of the phenomena.
The Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance
The author argues that psychoanalysis requires an adequate theory of self in order to address effectively those states of mind in which a disturbed sense of self is prominent. He discusses disorders... (more)
The Private Self
In "The Private Self", Arnold Modell contributes an interdisciplinary perspective in formulating a theory of the private self. A leading thinker in American psycho-analysis, Modell here studies... (more)
Our Need for Others and Its Roots in Infancy
In this original and highly readable book Josephine Klein provides a detailed picture of how young infants experience life and how this lays the foundations for later personality structures. (more)
Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis: An Integration
There are more psychoanalytic theories today than anyone knows what to do with, and the heterogeneity and complexity of the entire body of psychoanalytic though have become staggering. In Relational... (more)
The Psychopathic Mind
A presentation of current knowledge concerning the psychopathic personality and its functioning. (more)
What is Effective in Psychoanalytic Therapy
Compares the psychoanalytic technique of the 1930s with today's more rational concept of therapeutic action based on a developmentally rooted, parent-child model. The author stresses that... (more)
Anxiety and Neurosis
Anxiety may be debilitating or stimulating; it can result in neurotic symptoms or in improved, heightened performance in an actor or athlete. It is something every human being has experienced.
As... (more)
Narcissistic Wounds: Clinical Perspectives
This work synthesizes current thinking on narcissism making such disorders more recognisable, understandable and treatable. It emphasizes the various aspects of narcissistic pathology and examines... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Catholicism
This is an exploration of the similarities and differences between these two, often feuding, perspectives on living: psychoanalysis and Catholicism.
The Primer of Object Relations: Second Edition
Formerly entitled Scharff Notes, this is a short primer on object relations therapy. The content of the book derives from students' most frequently asked questions, together with the Scharffs'... (more)
Psychosis: Understanding and Treatment
Provides coverage of the official theories surrounding schizophrenia and examines the range of ideas on what causes psychosis and how it can be worked with. The first half of the book deals with the... (more)
On Flirtation
Building on his previous collection of psychoanalytic essays, On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, the author turns his attention to the subject of flirting. (more)
Psychoanalysis and Infant Research
This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then... (more)
What Do Psychoanalysts Want?: The Problem of Aims in Psychoanalytic Therapy
An examination of the aims and objectives of psychoanalysis and what the discipline is really attempting to achieve. (more)
Understanding Mental Objects
In this study the changing meanings of important psychoanalytic concepts are traced from context to context, and underlying theoretical issues are discussed in depth. The text includes a historical... (more)
The Truth About Freud's Technique: The Encounter With the Real
This incisive reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique challenges conventional notions on psychoanalysis and reveals a more personal and humanistic side of Freud. It argues for a return to a... (more)
Slings and Arrows
Examines what practitioners can do to help the victims of narcissistic wounds to integrate, mourn and heal them. (more)
In the Image of God: A Psychoanalystis View
A volume of personal reflections from a psychoanalyst and believer in the Christian faith. He describes how his belief affects his work. 128 pages. (more)