Psychoanalysis Books
Understanding Your Child Beyond Words: Psychoanalytic Techniques for Parents
Understanding Your Child Beyond Words: Psychoanalytic Techniques for Parents will help you unlock a deeper knowledge of your child's feelings, inviting you to explore the deepest questions about... (more)
Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic Breathing: Working Psychoanalytically with Early Relational Trauma
This book focuses on the recognition and psychoanalytic treatment of a debilitating form of early relational trauma poignantly described by Steven Stern as airless world syndrome.
A patient can... (more)
Understanding Lacan's Objet a
Understanding Lacan’s Objet a proposes that we modify the accepted approach to Lacan's ideas and strive to make Lacanian concepts accessible.
Juan Pablo Lucchelli gradually introduces conceptual... (more)
Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work
Psychoanalysis is not just about what happens in the room—it is also about the structure that holds it all together. In Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work, Allannah Furlong rethinks one of the... (more)
Lacan and the Question of Consent: Why Yielding is Not Consenting
Clotilde Leguil explores the boundary between “consenting” and “yielding” from a Lacanian standpoint.
Starting from the definition Lacan gave to psychical and sexual trauma, this book makes the... (more)
The Intimate Edges of Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma: In Tandem
The Intimate Edges of Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma is a personal account of an analysis spanning more than twenty years, written by practicing psychoanalysts.
This book is the first to... (more)
Fighting for Love: Journal of a Training Analysis
Fighting for Love: Journal of a Training Analysis is a unique account of an eight-year psychoanalysis, journaled and retrospectively annotated from the patient’s perspective in the aftermath of an... (more)
The Hour of Birth: Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art
To explore the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and contemporary visual artists upon each other, this volume examines the aesthetics of the sublime as an allegory for psychic birth.
Through the... (more)
Why Read Klein? The Importance of Melanie Klein's work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Why Read Klein? explores the importance of Melanie Klein’s work to contemporary psychoanalysis, her contributions as a key early psychoanalyst and continued influence on contemporary... (more)
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis presents conversations with clinicians about their research interests, and their experiences in relation to psychoanalytic practice, focusing... (more)
Going on Being in Challenging Times: Psychoanalytic Reflections
In this volume, we explore what it is to live through trauma while experiencing huge losses that threaten our well-being. The book demonstrates how clinicians can help patients regain meaning and... (more)
The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses
In The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses, Raul Moncayo uses the complex plane to evaluate analytic outcomes. Moncayo’s approach provides a study of the process and outcome of... (more)
A Phenomenology of the Alien: Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other
A Phenomenology of the Alien: Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other considers both literal and figurative experiences of the alien from a psychological, psychoanalytic and philosophical... (more)
Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God: Our Refuge and Strength
Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God demonstrates how clinicians can use Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy (AIP) to enhance clients’ understanding of their... (more)
What is Psychoanalysis?
New Shapes of Reality (1968) examines the works and thoughts of A.N. Whitehead, a major philosopher of great originality whose work touches all our preoccupations – but who fell out of favour and... (more)
An Autoethnography of Queer Invisibility: On Shame, Passing, and Identity Suicide
This book recounts a personal journey of self-acceptance, focusing on the author's creation and reliance of a persona (Paul D. Drevlin) as a defense mechanism against societal and familial... (more)
Space, Place and Dramatherapy: International Perspectives
Space, Place and Dramatherapy: International Perspectives provides radical, critical and practical insights into the relevance and significance of space and place in dramatherapy practice. Bringing... (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)
Selected Writings of Maureen O’Hara on the Art, Science, and Hope of Humanism: Vitalising Persons for Turbulent Times
This book presents the work of the eminent British-American psychologist, Maureen O’Hara. It explores the trajectory of humanistic psychology over the last few decades, providing a link between its... (more)
Varieties of Hope: Stories of Sexuality, Shame and Power
This book explores how hope operates as an ambivalent force in relation to issues of sex and gender, power, and identity in both our private and public lives.
The author blends her deep... (more)
Gender, Identifications, and Identities: Dialogues at the Edges
Gender, Identifications, and Identities considers the increasing visibility of sexual and gender diversity and reflects on how this is felt within psychoanalysis.
The international contributors... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts: Culture and Kulturarbeit
A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud’s anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works of fiction and poetry.
Giuseppina Antinucci offers close readings of the... (more)
Anti-Semitism at the Limit: Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis
In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about... (more)
D. W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject
In this volume, the work of British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott is set in conversation with some of today’s most talented psychodynamically-sensitive political thinkers. The editors and contributors... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture
In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees: Bonds and Fractures Across Identities and Cultures
Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees presents a rich panorama of the clinical issues facing those who experience migration.
Thorough and empathetic in its approach, this book... (more)
Passions of Our Time
Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and... (more)
Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe
Ferenczi Dialogues presents the contribution of Sándor Ferenczi to a psychoanalytic theory of trauma and discusses the philosophical, political and clinical implications of Ferenczi’s thinking. To a... (more)
Tell Me the Truth About Love: 13 Tales from Couple Therapy
Drawing on over 30 years of therapeutic encounters with people facing hurdles in their love lives, former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council Susanna Abse takes us deep inside one of the most... (more)
Why Can't We Sleep?
One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades and our bookshelves and browser histories are littered with experts promising to... (more)