Psychoanalysis Books
The Psycho-Analysis of Children
This book demonstrates Klein's work in devising the techniques of child analysis. She made treatment of young children possible and threw light on psychological development in childhood and on the... (more)
The Patient and the Analyst: The Basis of the Psychoanalytic Process
This is a completely revised and enlarged edition of the well-known classic by Sandler, Dare and Holder. In the twenty years since the previous edition was published much progress has been made in... (more)
Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
A series of papers divided into three groups: 'Health and Illness', 'The Family', and 'Reflections on society'. (more)
Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers
The value of Winnicott's work has become more and more widely recognized not only among psycho-analysts but also psychologists, educators, social workers, and men and women in every branch of... (more)
Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
Covering a wide range of topics, the collection consists of twenty-six papers and essays published over a period of two decades. Readers of this book are thus enabled to trace the analyst's... (more)
Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion
Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion outlines the basic ideas in their thinking and shows in detail how these ideas can be used to tackle a clinical problem. The contributors correct some common... (more)
Final Contributions to the Problems and Methods of Psycho-analysis
This final volume includes "Confusion of Tongues Between Children and Adults" in which Ferenczi formulates his controversal ideas on childhood sexuality, and the conflict between the languages of... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Literature and War: Papers 1972-1995
This collection of writings by Hanna Segal shows how the same conflicts between life and death instincts, phantasy and reality, are experienced in the consulting room, reflected in literature, and... (more)
The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology
The ground-breaking book which attempts to bridge the gap between the psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological theories of child development. (more)
From Fetus to Child: An Observational and Psychoanalytic Study
The advent of ultrasound scanning has made it possible to observe the fetus undisturbed in its natural surroundings. In this book the author describes in moving detail her observations of the... (more)
Love Relations: Normality and Pathology
From adolescence to old age, this work examines the success and failure of sexual love in couples. Amongst other topics, it describes the biological and psychological determinants and elements of the... (more)
Impasse and Interpretation: Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline and Neurotic Patients
A powerful argument for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms, and their alleviation through psychoanalytic means.
Dream Analysis: A Practical Handbook of Psychoanalysis
Written originally as a practical handbook on dream analysis, this book has established itself as a work of lasting value not only to psychoanalysts engaged in therapy, for whom it is primarily... (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)
Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis: From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique
Critical theory has traditionally been interested in engaging classical psychoanalysis rather than addressing postclassical thought. For the first time, this volume brings critical theory into proper... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma: The Inner Worlds of Outer Realities
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma presents a thorough introduction to social trauma from a range of perspectives, exploring several key themes, specific causes and symptoms and clinical... (more)
The Covid Trail: Psychodynamic Explorations
Contributors include Anthony Berendt, Birgitte Bonnerup, Leslie B. Brissett, Halina Brunning, Tim Dartington, Winnie Fei, M. Gerard Fromm, Zhang Jian Li, Olya Khaleelee, Andrzej Leder, Richard... (more)
Freud and Jung on Religion
In this outstanding book, originally published in 1997, and subsequently translated into many languages, Michael Palmer presents a detailed and comparative study of the two most famous theories of... (more)
Attachment, Sexuality, Power: Oedipal Theory as Regulator of Family Affection in Freud's Case of Little Hans
In Attachment, Sexuality, Power, Jerome C. Wakefield challenges established views of Freudian psychoanalysis by applying Foucault’s concept of ‘power/knowledge’ to Freud’s case of Little Hans,... (more)
Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning
In Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning, Gohar Homayounpour plays a theme and variations on loss, love, and family against the backdrop of Iran’s chaotic recent past.
Homayounpour is... (more)
Sigmund Freud: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
Sigmund Freud's name is known throughout the world. He opened up the world of the unconscious, so people can understand themselves so much better than before. His unique ideas are discussed in... (more)
Lost Childhood and the Language of Exile
A seminal work reissued with a new introduction from Judit Szekacs-Weisz and welcoming words from Ivan Ward and Carol Siegel. The book features stories of great diversity from psychoanalysts,... (more)
Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture
Kevin Volkan and Vamik Volkan present a comprehensive study of schizophrenia using a psychoanalytic lens on the existing interdisciplinary research. Over the last seventy years, mainstream research... (more)
Lost to Desire: The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive
This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of operatoire continues to inform the... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Group Analysis and Beyond: Towards a New Paradigm of the Human Being
Psychoanalysis, Group Analysis and Beyond presents an important new paradigm in psychoanalysis and group analysis, presenting the individual and the group as elements of a wider whole and taking... (more)
First Thoughts: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Beginnings
‘…any Psychoanalyst must find his own way and come upon well-known and well-established theories through experiences of his own realisations.’ So says W. R. Bion in his Commentary in Second Thoughts.... (more)
Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear
This book looks at the trauma suffered by those in relationships with narcissists, covering topics such as surviving a cult, dysfunctional families, political dysfunction, and imbalances of power in... (more)
Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood
Offering a uniquely psychoanalytic developmental perspective on male gender identity and the sense of maleness, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of masculinity in childhood... (more)
Learning from the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Approaches in Educational Psychology
Each of us has an inner world, influenced by experience, environment and the people and places we encounter. As individuals engaged with children and those around them, educational psychologists... (more)
Finding the Piggle: Reconsidering D. W. Winnicott's Most Famous Child Case
The Piggle is one of the most famous and beloved child cases in the history of psychoanalysis. A two-year-old girl suffering from terrible nightmares, depression, and self-harming behaviours, the... (more)