Psychoanalysis Books
Holism: Possibilities and Problems
Holism: Possibilities and Problems brings together leading contributors in a ground-breaking discussion of holism. The terms 'holism' and 'holistic' arouse strong emotional responses in contemporary... (more)
On the Dialectics of Psychoanalytic Practice
Fritz Morgenthaler was a crucial figure in the return of psychoanalysis to post-Nazi Central Europe. An inspiring clinician and teacher to the New Left generation of 1968, he was the first European... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration On Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel?
In dialogue with the most famous myth for the origin of different languages - The Tower of Babel - A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel? provides a series of timely... (more)
Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder: Literary and Psychoanalytic Reflections
Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder discusses the conditions of Phantom Limb Syndrome and Body Integrity Identity Disorder together for the first time, exploring examples from... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis at the Heart of Teaching and Learning: How and Why it Matters
This book introduces the insights of contemporary relational psychoanalysis to educational thought and uses them as the foundation for a comprehensive model for understanding and informing teaching... (more)
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness and how they have been shaped by historical trends and dominant... (more)
Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
One hundred (and one) tales to mark Salman Akhtar’s one hundredth book! Divided into eight informative parts – Dr Akhtar’s journey to psychoanalysis; the lessons he learned from his teachers,... (more)
The Analyst's Analyst Within:
This study examines how psychoanalysts' experiences with their own analysts affect their lives, their loves and their evolving professional identities. (more)
September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds
Our view of massive trauma has been shaped by the events of September 11, 2001. This volume focuses on the World Trade Center attack and its psychological consequences in order to deepen... (more)
Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get On with Life
People with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorders have a serious mental illness that primarily affects their intimate, personal, and family relationships. Often they appear to be normally... (more)
How to Talk to a Borderline
In How to Talk to a Borderline, Joan Lachkar introduces Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and outlines the challenges and difficulties it presents to clinicians. She expands current understanding... (more)
Routledge Library Editions: Freud
Routledge Library Editions: Freud brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1920 and 1984. From a variety of academic... (more)
A Psychoanalyst on the Couch
In 'A Psychoanalyst on the Couch' we find the noted psychoanalyst and Lacan commentator Juan-David Nasio on the analyst's couch himself. In the interview that makes up this book, he provides insight... (more)
Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan
Drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, the author shows that Kant and Lacan stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility -... (more)
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must... (more)