Psychoanalysis Books
Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life
'This is a study of sexual excitement. It is the fifth book - perhaps more accurately, the fifth chapter in one work - on masculinity and femininity (gender identity), carrying forward ideas examined... (more)
Sex and Gender: The Development of Masculinity and Femininity
In this book, Dr Stoller describes patients with marked abberrations in their masculinity and feminity--primarily transsexuals, transvestites and patients with marked biological abnormalities of... (more)
Collected Papers on Schizophrenia and Related Subjects
Twenty-four papers on or relating to schizophrenia, written between 1951 and 1963. (more)
Psychotic States: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Psychotic States brings together a number of Herbert Rosenfeld's papers written between 1946 and 1964 dealing with the psychopathology and treatment of various psychotic and borderline conditions... (more)
Knowledge and Its Pretenders: Perspectives on Klein
In this book, David Bell examines Melanie Klein's central contributions and their later evolution, contextualising them within a broader cultural and intellectual framework.
Klein, building on... (more)
Writings for a Liberation Psychoanalysis: Politicizing the Unconscious from the Core of a Crumbling Empire
In Writings for a Liberation Psychoanalysis, Robert K. Beshara establishes a groundbreaking framework that links the Freudo-Lacanian tradition directly to transmodernity and decoloniality.... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couples, Families, and Social Change: Contemporary Clinical Approaches to Relational Life
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couples, Families, and Social Change explores the complex interplay between individual psychodynamics, couple and family relationships, and societal changes from a... (more)
The Unconscious and the Family: The Psychoanalysis of Links and Transpersonal Pathologies
The Unconscious and the Family is an exploration of the complex unconscious dynamics that shape family and couple links. Drawing on extensive clinical experience, Anna Maria Nicolò offers profound... (more)
Life Drive & Death Drive, Libido & Lethe: A Clear Road Through Freud's Metapsychology Leading to Helpful Findings and New Concepts
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau navigates what has been for many of us the murky waters of metapsycholgy, and provides an exceptionally lucid, logically coherent account of the overall structure of Freud's... (more)
Attachment, Climate Crisis and the Natural World: The John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monograph 2024
Attachment, Climate Crisis and the Natural World is the first book to consider the psychological and social impact of global warming through the lens of attachment theory. The contributors reflect on... (more)
Object Relations: Selected Theoretical Perspectives
This book presents a concise yet comprehensive exploration of key object relations theories and their relevance in contemporary society. It traces the impact of early interactions with the ‘mothering... (more)
Otherness in a Fragmented World: Psychotherapy in Contemporary Society
This book explores a key theme both for humanity and for psychotherapy—how we can understand ourselves as a web of relational connections within the wider world that shapes us all.
Grounds are... (more)
Clinical Uses of Dreams in Psychoses: A Psychoanalytic Approach
This groundbreaking work challenges traditional psychoanalytic practice by demonstrating how dreams can be effectively utilized in treating psychotic patients.
The book provides comprehensive... (more)
Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis: Mobius Inflections
In Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis, Todd Anderson develops a Mobius model of analytic life in which knowing and being fold continuously into one another.
The book explores... (more)
Interpretation: A Contemporary Introduction
Interpretation: A Contemporary Introduction invites readers into the evolving heart of psychoanalytic practice, where interpretation stands as both central mystery and transformative... (more)
Gender: A Contemporary Introduction
Gender: A Contemporary Introduction offers a sophisticated exploration of gender through a psychoanalytic lens, moving beyond binary frameworks to present gender as a fluid, kaleidoscopic state of... (more)
The Negative: A Contemporary Introduction
In this comprehensive book, Rakefet Efrat Holzer explores the concept of the negative from psychoanalytic, linguistic and philosophical perspectives.
Efrat Holzer provides a thorough exploration... (more)
Free Association: A Contemporary Introduction
In Free Association: A Contemporary Introduction, Barnaby Barratt presents a compelling and much-needed exploration of the method of free association within psychoanalytic treatment.
This... (more)
Traumatic Narcissism Theory: A Contemporary Introduction
In this illuminating and informative book, Daniel Shaw provides a succinct and highly accessible introduction to his concept of Traumatic Narcissism, describing the psychology of the traumatizing... (more)
Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Contemporary Introduction
his book offers a vital psychoanalytic overview of antisocial personality disorder, a condition that causes great distress to its sufferers, their families, and society.
Following a historical... (more)
Moving from Grievance to Hope in Psychoanalysis: Applied Case Studies
This volume brings psychoanalytic thinking and practice directly into the social forces that shape our lives, covering intergenerational trauma, cultural difference, divisive ideologies,... (more)
'Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis' and 'Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case' (2 Volume Set)
Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case uses newly discovered primary sources to investigate one of Sigmund Freud’s most mysterious clinical experiences, the Forsyth case. Maria Pierri begins with a... (more)
Between Genius and Tragedy: A Psychoanalytic Portrait of Viktor Tausk
Between Genius and Tragedy: A Psychoanalytic Portrait of Viktor Tausk offers a compelling intellectual biography and a nuanced psychoanalytic exploration of Tausk’s character and thought, tracing... (more)
Who Betrayed John Rittmeister?: A Psychoanalytic Mystery from Nazi Berlin
Who Betrayed John Rittmeister? unravels the mystery of betrayal, resistance, and psychoanalysis in the shadow of Nazi Berlin.
Rickels delves into the enigmatic circumstances surrounding the... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Nazism: Language and the Unconscious in the Third Reich
The Psychoanalysis of Nazism explores the intricate relationship between psychoanalysis, language, and the sociopolitical forces of Nazi Germany.
Through a detailed examination of psychoanalytic... (more)
Harry Guntrip: A Contemporary Introduction
Harry Guntrip: A Contemporary Introduction traces Guntrip's early years, his theological and psychological studies, his formation as a psychoanalyst, and his various contributions to pre-Oedipal... (more)
The Psychodynamics and Psychogenesis of Parentification
Why do some of us grow up too soon and spend a lifetime caring for others at the cost of ourselves? In this deeply humane study, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet explores parentification:... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Framework for Civic Renewal: Reimagining Democracy from the Ground Up
A Psychoanalytic Framework for Civic Renewal: Reimagining Democracy from the Ground Up offers a compelling and original thesis: that the global crisis of democracy is not a purely political or... (more)
Reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Trauma and Life
Reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle presents a new reading of this foundational text, based on the hypothesis that the work was written in two phases.
Herman Westerink explores the... (more)
Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Volume 2: Later Works from Lausanne, Geneva and Rostov-on-Don
This is the second of two volumes of totally new English translations of all the known published psychoanalytic works of Sabina Spielrein, an important early proponent of psychoanalysis—and in... (more)