Psychoanalysis Books
Psychotherapy Under the Influence of Georges Bataille: From Social Theory to Clinical Practice
This fascinating book applies social theorist Georges Bataille's revolutionary thinking to psychotherapy, offering clinicians a new and valuable context for practicing therapy.
In adding... (more)
New Frontiers of Relational Thinking in Psychoanalysis: A Meta-Theory of Being and Becoming
New Frontiers of Relational Thinking in Psychoanalysis aims to take the reader into the depths of their humanity, to promote a creative process that the author calls 'consistency'. Consistency is a... (more)
An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice looks at each individual as a motivated doer doing, seeking, feeling, and intending, and relates development, sense of self, and... (more)
Healing, Rebirth and the Work of Michael Eigen: Collected Essays on a Pioneer in Psychoanalysis
This important book features collected essays on the distinguished psychoanalyst Dr Michael Eigen, who is an influential innovator within and beyond psychoanalysis.
Drawing on the ideas of Bion,... (more)
Shame, Temporality and Social Change: Ominous Transitions
There is a broad consensus that we are in a time of profound transition. There is worldwide political and social turbulence, with an underlying loss of hope and confidence about the future.... (more)
The Sublime in Everyday Life: Psychoanalytic and Aesthetic Perspectives
Notions of the sublime are most often associated with the extraordinary, and include the intra-psychic, high-cultural and exceptional occurrences of elation and exaltation as part of the experience.... (more)
A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics
A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics explores how empathy once shaped the collective unconscious, before being replaced by rampant individualistic drive to... (more)
Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Narrative in Psychoanalysis: The Creation of Intimate Fictions
This book is of and about psychoanalytic stories. It describes the personal, theoretical, and cultural stories that patients and analysts bring, create, and modify in analytic work. It shows how the... (more)
Emotional Communication and Therapeutic Change: Understanding Psychotherapy Through Multiple Code Theory
In this book, Wilma Bucci applies her skills as a cognitive psychologist and researcher to the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, opening up new avenues for understanding the underlying... (more)
Dream Sequences in Shakespeare: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
This book takes a new approach to Shakespeare's plays, exploring them as dream-thought in the modern psychoanalytic sense of unconscious thinking.
Through his commitment to poetic language,... (more)
Psychoanalytic Assessment Applications for Different Settings
In this edited book, expert assessors illustrate through case examples how they apply psychoanalytic theory to different clinical settings. These settings include private practice,... (more)
Dante and the Other: A Phenomenology of Love
Dante and the Other brings together noted and emerging Dante scholars with theologians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists, bridging the Florentine's premodern world to today's... (more)
Belonging Through a Psychoanalytic Lens
Watching people protest, one hypothesis is that underlying these actions for specific justifiable causes is a sense of wishing to belong, of wishing not to be alone. Recent knowledge from patients... (more)
Translation/Transformation: 100 Years of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Translation is at the heart of psychoanalysis: from unconscious to conscious, experience to verbal expression, internal to enacted, dream thought to dream image, language to interpretation,... (more)
Migration and Intercultural Psychoanalysis: Unconscious Forces and Clinical Issues
How does migration affect us in the deeper layers of our minds, where forces are at work that affect our mental and physical health, our experiences in the world and our behaviour?
This edited... (more)
Psychic Reality and Psychoanalytic Knowing
How do we know our mental life, and how is our mental life altered by our efforts to know it better? Originally published in 1984, this title attempts an epistemological and ontological discourse... (more)
Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation
Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art examines a strain of artists spanning more than a century, beginning at the dawn of photography and culminating in the discussion of contemporary artists, to... (more)
Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis: Cultural, Clinical, and Research Perspectives
This book is the first comprehensive treatment in recent decades of silence and silencing in psychoanalysis from clinical and research perspectives, as well as in philosophy, theology, linguistics,... (more)
Different Paths Towards Becoming a Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist:
This book describes the personal journey of a collection of contributors, detailing their pathways to becoming psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, with insights from many of the most interesting... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Medicine: Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Medical Care
This book shows how contemporary psychoanalytic thinking can be applied in the everyday practice of medicine to enhance the practice of family medicine and all clinical specialties.
Dr.... (more)
Women and Psychoanalysis: The Collected Papers of Lucy Holmes
This remarkable collection charts the professional growth of one psychoanalyst from student to seasoned clinician to provide a guidebook for how psychoanalytic theory is conceptualized, created and... (more)
The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalysis
This book examines the interaction of spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages with psychotherapy in everyday practice. Written by a team of seasoned clinicians and illustrated through clinical... (more)
Exploring the Emotional Life of the Mind: A Psychodynamic Theory of Emotions
This highly innovative new book reconsiders the structure of basic emotions, the self and the mind. It clinically covers mental disorders, therapeutic interventions, defense mechanisms, consciousness... (more)
When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron
This extraordinary volume offers a sampling of Lewis Aron's most important contributions to relational psychoanalysis.
One of the founders of relational thinking, Aron was an internationally... (more)
Social Aspects Of Sexual Boundary Trouble In Psychoanalysis: Responses to the Work of Muriel Dimen
Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen, Social Aspects of Sexual Boundary Trouble goes beyond the established consensus that sexual boundary violations (SBV) constitute a... (more)
The Contemporary Freudian Tradition: Past and Present
This is the first book dedicated to the Contemporary Freudian Tradition. In its introduction, and through its selection of papers, it describes the development and rich diversity of this tradition... (more)
Race, Rage, and Resistance: Philosophy, Psychology, and the Perils of Individualism
This timely collection asks the reader to consider how society's modern notion of humans as rational, isolated individuals has contributed to psychological and social problems and oppressive power... (more)
Psychoanalysis of Aging and Maturity: The Concept of Maturescence
As developing countries increasingly confront the issues of an aging population, this important book identifies the key period in the life cycle in which changes to the body, as well as concomitant... (more)
Madness and the Social Link: The Jean-Max Gaudilliere Seminars 1985 - 2000
This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.
The first of two volumes, Madness and the Social Link: The Jean-Max... (more)
A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter
A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter is written for all psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists who practise under the broad banner of psychoanalytic thinking. It is also for... (more)