Psychoanalysis Books
The Self-Restorative Power of Music: A Psychological Perspective
This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the... (more)
The Jouissance Principle: Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious
This book examines the concept of jouissance, a Lacanian term that refers to enjoyment experienced in different ways, from the enjoyment taken in an action that is ethically disapproved to the hidden... (more)
Sublimation and Superego: Psychoanalysis Between Two Deaths
This book integrates a thinking about dilemmas faced in the context of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis today, with contemporary social and political concerns specific to the age of the global... (more)
Subconscious Acts, Anesthesias and Psychological Disaggregation in Psychological Automatism: Partial Automatism
Pierre Janet's L'Automatisme Psychologique, originally published in 1889, is one of the earliest and most important books written on the study of trauma and dissociation. Here it is made available,... (more)
The Authority of Tenderness: Dignity and the True Self in Psychoanalysis
This insightful and beautifully written work explores non-linear processes of recovery of the loss of Self. The inherent healing power of hard-earned, wholehearted self-acceptance is conceived... (more)
Studies on Hysteria Revisited: Charles Melman on Trauma, Incompatibility, Repression and the Unconscious
Steeped in Lacanian theory, this book is the first of its kind to present a longitudinal approach to the study of hysteria.
In these 21 seminars Dr Melman leads us from the first records of... (more)
Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory
Sandor Ferenczi's mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn-the patient known as R.N. in the Clinical Diary-is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis.... (more)
Psychological Automatism Two Volume Set: Total Automatism and Partial Automatism
Pierre Janet's De l'Automatisme Psychologique, originally published in 1889, is one of the earliest and most important books written on the study of trauma and dissociation. Here it is made available... (more)
Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind: A Biological Understanding of Human Mental Function
This comprehensive and well-curated collection explores how neuroscience can be integrated into psychoanalytic thinking and practice, reexamining the biological science within psychological... (more)
Psychoanalytic Credo: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts
Developing a psychoanalytic credo, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the scaffolding of psychoanalytic training. Drawing... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Society's Neglect of the Sexual Abuse of Children, Youth and Adults: Re-addressing Freud's Original Theory of Sexual Abuse and Trauma
This book takes a comprehensive look at the understanding and treatment of child sexual abuse in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and in society as a whole.
This book will demonstrate how... (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)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue
This book vigorously engages Lacan with a spiritual tradition that has yet to be thoroughly addressed within psychoanalytic literature-the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition.
The book... (more)
Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment
The kinds of hatreds that analysts have assumed make up part of the unspoken backdrop of Western civilization have now erupted into our daily foreground. This book, consisting of essays from eleven... (more)
Madness in Experience and History: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology and Foucault's Archaeology
Madness in Experience and History brings together experience and history to show their impact on madness or mental illness.
Drawing on the writings of two twentieth-century French... (more)
Freudian Thought for the Contemporary Clinician: A Primer on Psychoanalytic Theory
This book uses clear language, modern contexts and key psychoanalytic concepts to exemplify how Sigmund Freud's thinking and legacy is directly relevant to contemporary therapists. ... (more)
Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice
Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice fills the gaps in current clinical training and theory by highlighting the importance of the analyst's unique voice, creativity, and embodied awareness... (more)
Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Mental Health Practice
Advances in psychoanalytic theory and technique can be usefully applied in virtually all psychotherapeutic settings, as well as in the management of patients in many nonmental health settings, to... (more)
Catalepsy, Memory and Suggestion in Psychological Automatism: Total Automatism
Pierre Janet's L'Automatisme psychologique, originally published in 1889, is one of the earliest and most important books written on the study of trauma and dissociation. Here it is made available,... (more)
Understanding Emotional Problems and their Healthy Alternatives: The REBT Perspective
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is an approach to counselling and psychotherapy rooted in the CBT tradition, and one that has a distinctive perspective on emotional problems. ... (more)
The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis: Neuroscientific Foundations and Clinical Cases
The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis builds a bridge between two different but intertwined disciplines-psychoanalysis and neuroscience-by examining the Self and its dynamics at the psychological and... (more)
The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today
The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today demonstrates the concept of the Infantile, first proposed almost a quarter of a century ago, and the ways in which it has become an indispensable tool... (more)
Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
A decade in the making, the Handbook is the definitive contemporary exposition of interpersonal psychoanalysis. It provides an authoritative overview of development, psychopathology, and treatment as... (more)
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890–1959: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis and Mind, Medicine, and Man: 2 volume set
The two-volume Life of Gregory Zilboorg is a meticulously researched biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the period from his birth as a Jew in Tsarist... (more)
Jungian Analysts Working Across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation
Jungian Analysts Working Across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation gives a fascinating account of the wide variety of experiences of Jungian analysts working in different cultures across the... (more)
Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism
Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and the immense potential of his ideas for thinking about literature, creative process,... (more)
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life
This book argues that the notion of 'wild' analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic notions, diagnoses, and treatment by an individual who has not undergone... (more)
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1940–1959: Mind, Medicine, and Man
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1940-1959: Mind, Medicine, and Man is the second volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and... (more)
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890–1940: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890-1940: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis is the first volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Mysticism and the Problem of Epistemology: Defining the Indefinable
This book presents key psychoanalytic theories from a fresh perspective: that of the mystical element.
The author explores the depth-structure of central assumptions in psychoanalytic theory to... (more)