Psychoanalysis Books
Uprooted Minds: A Social Psychoanalysis for Precarious Times: Second Edition
In the second edition of Uprooted Minds, Hollander offers a unique social psychoanalytic exploration of our increasingly destabilized political environment, augmented by her research into the... (more)
Freud's Adolescence: Oedipus Complex and Parricidal Tendencies
In Freud’s Adolescence, Florian Houssier looks at the early years of the Father of Psychoanalysis and considers how his personal experiences shaped his later work. Including excerpts from many... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Encounter and the Misuse of Theory
In clear, accessible language, Lee Grossman addresses the disjuncture between analytic literature and clinical work in an effort to render analytic theorizing more representative of clinical... (more)
Shandean Psychoanalysis: Tristram Shandy, Madness and Trauma
This unique book examines the psychoanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the provocative eighteenth-century novel by... (more)
Relational Conversations on Meeting and Becoming: The Birth of a True Other
Demonstrating a relational, dialogic way of thinking and writing, this book offers an innovative perspective on the human potential for intersubjective engagement and on the nature of true... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Children in Hospital
Psychoanalytic Work with Children in Hospital presents the experiences of a psychoanalyst working within a hospital paediatric department.
It explores the possibilities for applying... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric: Freud, Burke, Lacan, and Philosophy's Other Scenes
Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric: Freud, Burke, Lacan, and Philosophy's Other Scenes is an innovative work that places the fields of psychoanalysis and rhetoric in dynamic resonance with one... (more)
Prenatal Bonding Analysis: The Invisible Umbilical Cord
This book presents a novel psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic method which enables expectant mothers to establish communication with their unborn babies.
After an exploration of the root... (more)
Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis: Oedipus Gay
Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis proposes a critical reading of the Freudian and Lacanian texts that paved the way for a heteronormative bias in the theory and practice of... (more)
Grace Pailthorpe’s Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism
This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine and surrealist artist to provide an in-depth study... (more)
From Fiction to Psychoanalysis: Reimagining a Relationship
How can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist... (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 Study of the Wounded Healer: Life Stories, Myth and Reality
A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer uses qualitative research to examine the popular myth that therapists are ‘wounded healers’.
Rhona M. Fear presents the life stories of seven... (more)
Symbol Formation in Psychoanalysis
Marisa Pelella Mélega draws on a broad spectrum of clinical and observational work, gathered over many years as a practising and teaching psychoanalyst based in São Paulo, Brazil.
The role of... (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)
Psychoanalysis, the Self, and the World: Postphenomenology, Consciousness, and Death
This book takes psychoanalysis into the 21st century, examining issues of existentialism, postphenomenology, social media, and death and death anxiety that have gone largely ignored in the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Other Disciplines Confront Prejudice: Discrimination Against the Other
Psychoanalysis and Other Disciplines Confront Prejudice: Discrimination Against the Other presents interdisciplinary perspectives on prejudice.
This book considers both the negative and positive... (more)
Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought: From Mourning to Creativity
This unusual book explores the transformative power of liminal experiences in ancient Greek texts, psychoanalytic theory, and the author’s own life, to demonstrate how a contemporary understanding of... (more)
Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis
What does it feel like to encounter ourselves and one another as implicated subjects, both in our everyday lives and in the context of our work as clinicians, and how does this matter?
With... (more)
Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child's Inner Self
This classic edition of Violet Oaklander’s groundbreaking book presents her pioneering approach to engaging with children who enter therapy. A new introduction by Peter Mortola reflects on the ways... (more)
Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case: Coincidences and Thought-Transmission in Psychoanalysis
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. The book details Pierri’s... (more)
Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference
Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis traces the origins of key psychoanalytic ideas back to their roots in hypnosis and the occult.
Maria Pierri follows Freud’s early interest in... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Science and Power: Essays in Honour of Robert Maxwell Young
Psychoanalysis, Science and Power reexamines the current state of psychoanalysis and science and technology studies as they have been influenced by Robert Maxwell Young’s work.
Robert Maxwell... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman presents a contemporary Freudian-Lacanian assessment of this classic director. This collection is the first to bring together this unique... (more)
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter is a pioneering reflection on the psychology of racism and its impact on us all. With the intimacy of personal experience and depth of... (more)
Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child: Animation, Play, and Creative Life
Toy Story and the Inner World of the Childoffers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of toys and play within the development of film and animation.
The author takes the reader on a... (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)
The American Dream and American Cinema in the Age of Trump: From Object Relations to Social Relations
The American Dream and American Cinema in the Age of Trump uses both film theory and insights from object relations theory in order to examine how recent films address and reflect the state of the... (more)
The Emergent Container in Psychoanalysis: Experiencing Absence and Future
Drawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores ‘Absence’ and ‘Future’ in the context of... (more)
Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen: Oblivion and Wisdom, Madness and Music
Commentaries on the Work of Michael Eigen is an accessible and engaging introduction to this ground-breaking psychoanalytic sage. Through exploration of Eigen’s two key texts, The Psychotic Core and... (more)