Psychoanalysis Books
A for Adoption: An Exploration of the Adoption Experience for Families and Professionals
The experience of adoption, both adopting and being adopted, can stir up deep emotional pain, often related to loss and early trauma. A for Adoption provides insight and support to those families and... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration On Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel?
In dialogue with the most famous myth for the origin of different languages - The Tower of Babel - A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel? provides a series of timely... (more)
Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, Winnicott, and the Body of the Void
In Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis, Touria Mignotte explores an innovative conception of cruelty. Integrating the life sciences and quantum physics, this approach shows that... (more)
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a... (more)
Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder: Literary and Psychoanalytic Reflections
Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder discusses the conditions of Phantom Limb Syndrome and Body Integrity Identity Disorder together for the first time, exploring examples from... (more)
Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity: Contemporary Freudian Explorations of Trauma, Memory, and Clinical Process
Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity looks at contemporary Freudian and post-Freudian theory through an intersubjective lens. Bruce Reis offers views on how psychoanalytic conceptions from the... (more)
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies
Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness and how they have been shaped by historical trends and dominant... (more)
Sigmund Freud's Collection: Highlights from the Freud Museum
Sigmund Freud began collecting artworks and antiquities in the late 19th century and it soon became his obsession. Walking into his study today at 20 Maresfield Gardens, this collection is an... (more)
The Analyst's Analyst Within:
This study examines how psychoanalysts' experiences with their own analysts affect their lives, their loves and their evolving professional identities. (more)
September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds
Our view of massive trauma has been shaped by the events of September 11, 2001. This volume focuses on the World Trade Center attack and its psychological consequences in order to deepen... (more)
On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World
The whole book circles around issues of intimacy and privacy, versus the need to speak out, to define and organise the world through writing, analysis and politics - exploring the uncomfortable... (more)
Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get On with Life
People with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorders have a serious mental illness that primarily affects their intimate, personal, and family relationships. Often they appear to be normally... (more)
How to Talk to a Borderline
In How to Talk to a Borderline, Joan Lachkar introduces Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and outlines the challenges and difficulties it presents to clinicians. She expands current understanding... (more)
Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and Attachment
The recent explosion of new research about infants, parental care, and infant-parent relationships has shown conclusively that human relationships are central motivators and organizers in... (more)
Routledge Library Editions: Freud
Routledge Library Editions: Freud brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1920 and 1984. From a variety of academic... (more)
A Psychoanalyst on the Couch
In 'A Psychoanalyst on the Couch' we find the noted psychoanalyst and Lacan commentator Juan-David Nasio on the analyst's couch himself. In the interview that makes up this book, he provides insight... (more)