Psychoanalysis Books
Self psychology and diagnostic assessment: Identifying selfobject functions through psychological testing
Differentiating the self psychological approach from an ego psychological interpretation of classical drive theory, the author of this book seeks to outline the principal contributions of Kohut,... (more)
The Last Good Freudian
Webster's compelling memoir provides an illuminating insight into the subculture of psychoanalysis that dominated a significant sector of American life. (more)
Shame in context:
This text offers an understanding of shame dynamics - the role of shame in creating and maintaining character pathology, and shame in the context of obsessive-compulsive, narcissitic and masochistic... (more)
The Annual of Psychoanalysis: Vol.28
This annual of psychoanalysis is divided into two sections on: psychoanalysis and neuroscience; and applied psychoanalysis. Topics covered include self-organizing aspects of learning in... (more)
Understanding the borderline mother: Helping her children transcend the intense, unpredictable, and volatile
An examination of the world of borderline mothers and children. Dr Lawson describes four basic profiles of the borderline mother: the Waif Mother, the Hermit Mother, the Queen Mother and the Witch.... (more)
What love is: lessons from the heart
This book invites readers to explore their own lessons of love in order to lead them to acknowledge - and overcome - the trials and tribulations of their own lives. 148 pages. (more)
The Collapse of the Self and Its Therapeutic Restoration
This volume seeks to encompass the historic and still extant between object- relations and self psychology. The author views the self as housing the dialectical interplay between its pathological and... (more)
The Musical Edge of the Therapeutic Dialogue
This work explores the musical aspects of therapeutic dialogue. It covers such topics as improvization and accompaniment, the unspoken dialogue, mind metaphors, and the counterpoint of subjective... (more)
The Annual of Psychoanalysis: Vol.24
This annual of psychoanalysis covers various topics, including: psychoanalysis in transition; genesis of a new psychoanalytic paradigm; and loss of freedom. 288 pages.
Freud's philosophy of the unconscious
This study charts Freud's intellectual development as he deals with the mind- body problem, the nature of consciousness, folk psychology versus scientific psychology, the relationship between... (more)
Psychoanalytic Participation: Action, Interaction and Integration
Topics in this volume include: the meaning of a two-person treatment model; the psychoanalyst's participation of the new role for action and external reality; and the analyst and the role of... (more)
The enchanted world of sleep:
This work surveys the entire field of sleep research and sleep medicine. As well as examining topics such as the structure of sleep stages, and the reasons for and significance of dreams, the text... (more)
The social work psychoanalyst's casebook: Essays in honour of Jean Sanville
This text offers accounts of nine analyses that cover in detail what transpired between analysts and their analysands during the treatment hours. The theoretical perspectives and therapeutic... (more)
Mrs Klein:
London,1934. Melanie Klein is one of the most admired, yet controversial, psycho-analysts of her time, renowned for her unique insight into the secret world of childhood. But her relationship with... (more)
Work and the evolving self:
This volume presents a psychoanalytic perspective on work life. The author focuses on the workplace and examines the meaning of work throughout the life cycle. He explores the various dimensions of... (more)
Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man
"Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man" is not just a book about doing psychotherapy with gay men. It is also a chronicle of the historal state of relationships between two controversial cultural... (more)
Brothers and Sisters: Developmental, Dynamic, and Technical Aspects of the Sibling Relationship
Sibling relationships and rivalry are as old as recorded history. This analysis explores that ambivalence between siblings, which casts its shadow throughout people's lifetimes and affects their... (more)
Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process
This work develops a paradigm for psychoanalysis that cuts across all the major schools of psychoanalytic thought. With detailed clinical illustrations the author demonstrates the advantages of a... (more)
Psychological trauma:
For 1998, the annual "Review of Psychiatry" will now be sold independently and the six monographs for 1998 are "Psychopathology and Violent Crime", "Addictions", "Psychological Trauma", "Biology of... (more)
Freud for historians
`A writer of brilliant allusiveness and scintillating style -- never better demonstrated than in this enormously enjoyable book.' John Keegan in The Sunday Times. 272 pages.