Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe & Social Action: Catastrophe and Trans-Subjectivity
This fascinating volume uses psychoanalytic theory to explore how political subjectivity comes about within the context of global catastrophe, via the emergence of collective individuations through... (more)
Psychoanalysis Under Nazi Occupation: The Origins, Impact and Influence of the Berlin Institute
Laura Sokolowsky's survey of psychoanalysis under Weimar and Nazism explores how the paradigm of a 'psychoanalysis for all' became untenable as the Nazis rose to power.
Mainly discussing the... (more)
Psychoanalysis on the Verge of Language: Clinical Cases on the Edge
This book examines the importance of language and writing in psychoanalytic theory and practice, offering an understanding of how language works can give a deeper insight into the psyche both in... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings: Upheavals and Resilience
Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings examines the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with patients who have experienced deeply traumatic experiences through war, forced migrations,... (more)
Post-traumatic Attachments to the Eerily Moving Image: Something to Watch Over Me
This book explores how experiences of traumatic isolation and neglect - in childhood and in adulthood, and at both the family and the state level - may create a desire in us to be parented by certain... (more)
Lacan and Other Heresies: Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings
This volume gathers together the recent writings of the analysts and members of the Freudian School of Melbourne and the Belgian analyst Christian Fierens, displaying the ongoing interrogation by the... (more)
Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice: Second Edition
What is psychoanalysis? Is it relevant to today's mental health crisis? How can psychoanalysis help people suffering from psychological distress and illness? This vital new book examines how... (more)
Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides: Methods Based on Psychoanalysis and Mindfulness
A clear, cogent, and comprehensive account of the rationale and methods of Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue, this volume introduces models of facilitated dialogue designed specifically to end... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Group Analysis and Beyond: Towards a New Paradigm of the Human Being
Psychoanalysis, Group Analysis and Beyond presents an important new paradigm in psychoanalysis and group analysis, presenting the individual and the group as elements of a wider whole and taking... (more)
Group Relations and Other Meditations: Psychoanalytic explorations on the uncertainties of experiential learning
This book examines the Tavistock tradition of using group relations conferences as temporary training organizations for groups and institutions, and how those can inform and enrich the theory and... (more)
Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existential Loneliness: Matter and Mind
Since the ages of the Old Testament, the Homeric myths, the tragedies of Sophocles and the ensuing theological speculations of the Christian millennium, the theme of loneliness has dominated and... (more)
Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations
This book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of how the digital is transforming our perception of the world and our understanding of ourselves.
Drawing on examples from everyday... (more)
Psychoanalytic Insights into Social, Political, and Organizational Dynamics: Understanding the Age of Trump
This fascinating interdisciplinary work explores U.S. politics since 2015 and offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United... (more)
Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche
Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche offers a bold exploration of the contemporary psychoanalytic field by focusing on key issues through the lens of one of this century's most... (more)
Schizostructuralism: Divisions in Structure, Surface, Temporality, Class
Schizostructuralism draws together insights from psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxist theory, and the divisions and antagonisms that both underpin and distinguish them, to form a new... (more)
Autonomy, Relatedness and Oedipus: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Autonomy, Relatedness, and Oedipus is an innovative and inspiring work from Thijs de Wolf that takes a critical look at the field of psychoanalysis. He takes the view that psychoanalysis is about... (more)
Psychoanalysis After Freud: Memory, Mourning and Repetition
This book draws on a number of Freud's lesser-known works to explore psychoanalytic perspectives on memory, mourning and repetition.
It is remarkable that Freud in his speculations on the human... (more)
Psychoanalytic Ecology: The Talking Cure for Environmental Illness and Health
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental psychology, psychoanalysis and the environmental humanities. (more)
The Unconscious: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications
Weaving together state-of-the-art research, theory, and clinical insights, this book provides a new understanding of the unconscious and its centrality in human functioning. The authors review... (more)
Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
In what ways is comedy subversive? This vital new book critically considers the importance of comedy in challenging and redefining our relations to race and racism through the lens of political... (more)
The Sound of the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis as Music
In this book, Ludovica Grassi explores the importance of music in psychoanalysis, arguing that music is a basic working tool for psyche, as words are composed of sound, rhythm and intonation more... (more)
Eigen in Seoul Volume Three: Pain and Beauty, Terror and Wonder
Between 2007 and 2011, Michael Eigen gave three seminars in Seoul, each running over three days and covering different aspects of psychoanalysis, spirituality and the human psyche. This book is based... (more)
Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis: Theoretical Basis and Experiences through Working Parties
This book offers different theoretical approaches about what clinical research is.
Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis is a unique contribution to the attempts to bridge the gap between... (more)
Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts: The Salonica Cohen Family and Trauma Across Generations
Through a collection of letters sent by members of a Jewish family between 1925-42, this fascinating book explores phenomenological and psychoanalytical aspects of the Holocaust and its associated... (more)
Ferenczi on Freud’s Couch: A Finished Analysis?
This fascinating book assesses Sandor Ferenczi's role in the history of psychoanalysis, examining his personal analysis with Freud, the father of the discipline.
The book delves into archival... (more)
Through a Screen Darkly: Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic
This book offers real-time, intimate reflections on Dr. Friedberg's patients as they struggle with COVID-19 and its disruptive, dispiriting fallout.
Through a Screen Darkly identifies the... (more)
Peace Building Through Women’s Health: Psychoanalytic, Sociopsychological, and Community Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This book is an examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through psychoanalytic, sociopsychological, and nationalistic lenses, highlighting the successes and the hurdles faced by one... (more)
The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic
We are fed at the breast of culture, not wholly but to differing degrees. The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic focuses on the formative influence of cultural... (more)
Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline: In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel
The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of... (more)
Change Through Time in Psychoanalysis: Transformations and Interventions: The Three Level Model
Change Through Time in Psychoanalysis presents a new stage of the work done through the IPA Committee on Clinical Observation between 2014 and 2020-the advances in our method, the Three Level Model... (more)