Psychoanalysis Books
The Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique
A revised and updated edition of this recent classic, including new material on insight and early development, amongst others. Within each subject, the author presents the theories and observations... (more)
The Embodied Self: Movement and Psychoanalysis
By integrating principles from her background as a movement psychotherapist and movement analyst with key concepts from contemporary psychoanalysis, the author offers a new perspective on exploring... (more)
A Healing Conversation: How Healing Happens
How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in this book. He believes that a person in their innermost being... (more)
The Tavistock Seminars
Previously unpublished lectures from Wilfred Ruprecht Bion. The book consists of eight talks Bion gave at the Tavistock Clinic between 1976 and 1979. Topics explored include the importance of... (more)
The Dictionary of the Work of W.R. Bion
This impressive work constitutes an important and timely addition to existing dictionaries of psychoanalytic ideas. It is not intended to replace the reading of Bion’s original texts nor is it a... (more)
Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents
The central theme of this book is concerned with the controversies on technique between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the 1920s and 1930s, and with a clear differentiation between child analysis... (more)
On Incest: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Incest is a universal taboo that is found throughout the history and mythology of the majority of societies. A neglected subject in more recent psychoanalytic work, this book was inspired by the... (more)
Words That Touch: A Psychoanalyst Learns to Speak
In her attempt to find the words that touch, Danielle Quinodoz gives a succession of illuminating examples to indicate what a psychoanalyst and her patient may experience in the transference... (more)
Child Analysis Today
Although there have been many other important contributions to the field of child and adolescent analysis, the major differences in theory and approach still bear the hallmarks of three of the most... (more)
A Pattern of Madness
Author of many respected psychoanalytic works including Narcissism: A New Theory, Emotion and Spirit, Making of a Psychotherapist and Spirit of Sanity, the distinguished psychoanalyst Neville... (more)
The Dove That Returns, The Dove That Vanishes: Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis
The nature of psychoanalysis seems contradictory - deeply personal, subjective and intuitive, yet requiring systematic theory and principles of technique. In The Dove that Returns, The Dove that... (more)
Soul Murder Revisited: Thoughts about Therapy, Hate, Love, and Memory
New in paperback. A reflection on the circumstances of child abuse, and on the consequences of this abuse. There are examples from literature and from clinical material. 328 pages. (more)
On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind
Providing guidance on how the analyst can encourage the patient to communicate the quality of their often intolerably painful states of mind, this text looks at how he/she can interpret these states,... (more)
On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of O
A scholarly adventure in post-Kleinian psychoanalytic thinking, strongly influenced by the work of Bion.
Loss: Attachment and Loss: Volume 3
In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the... (more)
Separation: Attachment and Loss: Volume 2
The second volume of Attachment and Loss continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he considers separation and the anxiety that... (more)
Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies: Eating Disorders and Other Pathologies
Klein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. In a highly... (more)
Emotional Vertigo: Between Anxiety and Pleasure
Unravels the unconscious significance of the feelings of vertigo which sometimes arise in situations where there is no immediate danger of falling. The author traces the origins of these attacks to... (more)
Envy And Gratitude
Melanie Klein's writings, particularly on infant development and psychosis, have been crucial both to theoretical work and to clinical practice. Envy and Gratitude collects her writings from 1946... (more)
The Making of a Psychotherapist
In the first part of the book - 'Personal Qualities' - we are reminded that Psychotherapy means 'Healing the Soul', and that the healer has a moral responsibility for the state of his own mental... (more)
Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self-Experience
Shows how each person unconsciously invests the ordinary objects of life with particular and private meaning. As each person subsequently voyages through the environment he encounters objects that... (more)
A Memoir of the Future: Volumes I, II & III
A Memoir of the Future, Bion's unorthodox attempt to cast psychoanalytic speculation in fictional form, is composed of three semi-autobiographical novels: The Dream (1975), The Past Presented (1977),... (more)
Narcissism: A New Theory
In this book, Neville Symington approaches the well-trodden subject of narcissism, offers us fresh insights from his long clinical experience with patients suffering from this disorder, and sketches... (more)
Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
A series of papers divided into three groups: 'Health and Illness', 'The Family', and 'Reflections on society'. (more)
The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development
The collection of papers that forms The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment brings together Dr. Winnicott's published and unpublished papers on psychoanalysis and child... (more)
Attachment: Attachment and Loss: Volume 1
This classic examination, the first book in a psychology trilogy, of the processes that take place in attachment and separation and shows how experimental studies of children reveal a recognizable... (more)
A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought
A comprehensive overview of Kleinian terminology and theory. This book contains thirteen main entries on the basic Kleinian concepts - splitting, paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions,... (more)