Psychoanalysis Books
The Life-Death Instinct: Feeling Through Creative-Clinical Moments
Throughout this enlightening collection, Neil Maizels considers the helical tandem between the Life Instinct and the Death drive in the light of canonical literary figures like Thomas Hardy, Patricia... (more)
Yoga and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on the Psychology of Regression
This book discusses the relevance of tracing back the course of individual development noted in psychoanalysis (regression) and in Patañjali’s Yoga (prati-prasava).
Although Freud found the... (more)
Film Psychoanalysis: Relational Approaches to Film Interpretation
Through the development of psychoanalytically-informed film interpretation, Andreas Hamburger provides new insights into the experience of watching films and their influence upon our internal... (more)
Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field
Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field is a collection of reading and writing experiments inspired by the late feminist psychoanalyst Muriel... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India: Violence, Safety and Survival
This important book provides a bridge between psychoanalytic perspectives and socio-cultural issues to shine a spotlight on the experiences of women in India today.
Women’s well-being and... (more)
Sexuality, Intimacy, Power
This book offers Dimen’s classic take on psychosexuality, drawing on relational theory, feminism and postmodernism, with a new foreword by Virginia Goldner and Velleda Ceccoli honouring the late... (more)
The Human Difference: Evolution, Civilization - and Destruction
From a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in psychoanalysis, this book explores the manifestations of mind that distinguish humans from other species, culture, civilization, and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sergei M. Eisenstein's Work: Cinema and Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia
In this insightful book, Alberto Angelini shows the influence of psychoanalysis and psychology on Sergei M. Eisenstein, one of the most celebrated Russian directors, and his cinematic... (more)
Norbert Elias and Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalytic Foundations of the Civilizing Process
This book explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis on Norbert Elias' theory of the civilizing process - an influence acknowledged by Elias himself - conducting a dialogue with a view to... (more)
Harry Stack Sullivan: Interpersonal Theory and Psychotherapy
This book covers the works and life of Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), who has been described as 'the most original figure in American psychiatry'.
Challenging Freud's psychosexual theory,... (more)
Developments in Field Theory for Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts and Counsellors
This book explores developments in psychoanalytic field theory internationally, and their relevance for therapeutic theory and practice. The roots of psychoanalytic field theory can be traced back... (more)
Trauma and Its Impacts on Temporal Experience: New Perspectives from Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
This unique text develops an original theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between trauma and time by combining phenomenological and psychoanalytical traditions.
Moving... (more)
Psychoanalytic Intersections: Selected Writing of the Austen Riggs Center Erikson Institute Visiting Scholar Program
Psychoanalytic Intersections examines the influence and legacy of the Austen Riggs Center, one of the oldest psychoanalytically oriented psychiatric hospitals in America, and home of the Erikson... (more)
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.
In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia... (more)
Dialogues between Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Relational Space of the Consulting Room Through the Senses
Dialogues Between Psychoanalysis and Architecture explores the multisensory space of therapy, real or virtual, and how important it is in providing the container for the therapeutic relationship and... (more)
Against White Interiority: A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason
This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd. Through a set of managerial and therapeutic... (more)
Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery
An Independent Book of the Month Penises, and the things people do with them, have been subjects of controversy for a long time. This book examines how one thing that some people do to... (more)
The Performance Therapist and Authentic Therapeutic Identity: Coming into Being
Exploring what it means to be an authentic therapist in the present day, Sara London playfully melds together the tenets of performance art and psychoanalytic theory to advance the hopeful new notion... (more)
Currere and Psychoanalytic Guided Regression: Revisiting the Kent State Shootings
This book revisits the 1970 Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, using a new approach of currere and psychoanalytic guided regression. Drawing on a... (more)
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how psychoanalysis... (more)
What Is Sexual Difference?: Thinking with Irigaray
Luce Irigaray has written that sexual difference is one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our age. Spanning metaphysics, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis, her work examines how... (more)
The End of Analysis: The Dialectics of Symbolic and Real
This book interrogates the end of analysis in psychoanalytic thought from Freud to Lacan. It demonstrates that the notions of mourning, renunciation, liquidation of transference, and traversal of... (more)
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
Hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and a leading figure of 1960s counterculture and liberation movements, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse is amongst the most renowned and controversial thinkers of... (more)
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age: The Fierce Urgency of Now
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse.
Presented in two... (more)
Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality: An Essay on Psychopolitics
Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality traces the origins of the relationship between the morality of the super-ego and the destructive impulse of the death drive in the liberal... (more)
Freud's Thinking: An Introduction
In this brief but comprehensive introduction to Freud's theories, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provides a step-by-step overview of his ideas regarding the unconscious, the cure, sexuality, drives, and... (more)
Testimony and Witnessing in Psychoanalysis: A Literary and Philosophical Perspective
In this fascinating volume, Zipi Rosenberg Schipper approaches the fundamental topic of testimony, seeking to recognize its value as a distinct and vital function in psychoanalytic work, separate... (more)
How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers: Musings on Media Psychoanalysis
An investigation into how the fields of mental health and media can work together more collaboratively. Brett Kahr is well-known and was previously Resident Psychotherapist at the B.B.C. Explores... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen: The Year the Cinemas Closed
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen examines the impact of cinema closures and the shift to small-screen consumption on our aesthetic and subjective desires during the Covid-19 pandemic from a... (more)
Schizostructuralism: Divisions in Structure, Surface, Temporality, Class
Each chapter represents the workings of a theory or concept. Relates system to class and key psychanalytic concepts. Contains diagrams to illustrate systems described. (more)