Psychoanalysis Books
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 Innocence of Dreams
Rycroft argues that dreams are not guilty fantasies, nor abnormal states, but innocent flights of the imagination, released from the censorship of the waking mind. He examines the many debates since... (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)
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)
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)
From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness: Second Edition
Violence is all around us; yet, despite its widespread prevalence, we remain unclear about its causes. In this book, Felicity de Zulueta begins by defining ‘violence' as distinct from ‘aggression',... (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)
