Psychoanalysis Books
Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood
Offering a uniquely psychoanalytic developmental perspective on male gender identity and the sense of maleness, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of masculinity in childhood... (more)
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in... (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)
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)
Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings
This book demonstrates the use of psychoanalytic thinking in front-line mental health settings and aims to make an approach to working with emotional and mental disturbance available to a wide range... (more)
Psychoanalysts in Session: Clinical Glossary of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is an intimate clinical experience and the concepts that it explores aim to grapple with the specific phenomena that unfold when a patient speaks and an analyst listens. This book aims... (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)
Sex, Death, and the Superego: Updating Psychoanalytic Experience and Developments in Neuroscience
This second edition of Ronald Britton's personal reappraisal of psychoanalytic theories is based on further clinical experience, further study of current neuroscience and continued reflection on the... (more)
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works,... (more)
Body Psychotherapy for the 21st Century
Body psychotherapy currently attracts more interest than ever before and is taking up an important role in the general psychotherapy field, bringing awareness of embodiment into what has been a... (more)
On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of O
A scholarly adventure in post-Kleinian psychoanalytic thinking, strongly influenced by the work of Bion.
Suffering and Sacrifice in the Clinical Encounter
The authors identify the ways in which some patients seek to create what Freud termed a “private religion” and unconsciously substitute sacrificial enactments of scapegoat surrogates to protect them... (more)
The Erotic Screen: Desire, Addiction and Perversity in Cinema
The Erotic Screen takes as its starting point that Hollywood movies were steeped in eroticism from the beginning but censorship forced filmmakers to devise hidden sexual subtexts to preserve a film’s... (more)
The Handbook of Psychoanalytic Holocaust Studies: International Perspectives
This book is a unique compilation of essays about the genocidal persecution fuelling the Nazi regime in World War II. Written by world-renowned experts in the field, it confronts a vitally important... (more)
A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix: How Siblings Shape our Lives
Siblings play a vital part in our lives, yet their impact is frequently underestimated. A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix offers a fresh group analytic approach to siblings,... (more)
The Phallus and the Mask: The Patriarchal Unconscious of Psychoanalysis (Psychology)
Psychoanalysts from all schools – even when they are women – have often dismissed and sometimes openly disapproved of feminism and its critique of male universalism. While other disciplines, like... (more)
Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer
Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer offers a comprehensive overview of the theory of Intersubjective Self Psychology and its clinical applications. Readers will gain an in depth understanding... (more)
Experiencing the Body: A Psychoanalytic Dialogue on Psychosomatics
Experiencing the Body: A Psychoanalytic Dialogue on Psychosomatics offers a range of perspectives on somatic illness, highlighting key points of convergence and difference between a range of... (more)
The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis
The Emergence of Analytic Oneness is a profound and penetrating exploration of a fundamental dimension of analytic presence and patient-analyst interconnectedness that offers new possibilities for... (more)
Beyond the Primal Addiction: Food, Sex, Gambling, Internet Shopping and Work
Written by experienced practitioners in the fields of addiction and psychoanalysis, and illustrated by a range of moving vignettes, this groundbreaking book examines the psychological foundations of... (more)
Trauma and Primitive Mental States
Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective offers a clinically based framework through which adult survivors of early childhood trauma can re-engage with painful past events... (more)
The Mother's Hands: Desire Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal
The social changes of the last century have fundamentally transformed motherhood. From a patriarchal society which reduced women almost entirely to their maternal function, new social and sexual... (more)
The Analyst's Reveries: Explorations in Bion's Enigmatic Concept
While the use of the analyst's own reveries in work with patients has increased in recent times, there has been little critical inquiry into its value, and the problems it may lead to. The Analyst's... (more)
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided... (more)
The Kleinian Development - Part III: The Clinical Significance of the Work of Bion
The Kleinian Development derives from lectures delivered at the Institute of Psychanalysis, London, and the Tavistock Clinic (1965–78). It is divided into three volumes that examine, in turn, the... (more)
The Kleinian Development - Part I: Freud's Clinical Development
The Kleinian Development derives from lectures delivered at the Institute of Psychanalysis, London, and the Tavistock Clinic (1965–78). It is divided into three volumes that examine, in turn, the... (more)
The Law of the Mother: An Essay on the Sexual Sinthome
The law of the mother is made up of words charged with pleasure and suffering that leave their mark on us in early childhood. In this groundbreaking book, Genevieve Morel explores whether it is... (more)
The Growth of Mind
The Growth of Mind is the product of a series of ten lectures by Neville Symington. It offers an understanding of the mind and its capacity to discover truth, establishing this as the foundation... (more)
Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris
This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and... (more)
Celebrity Mad: Why Otherwise Intelligent People Worship Fame
This short book provides a psychoanalytical understanding of fame and celebrity in the early twenty-first century, building upon the bedrock foundations of the Freudian corpus.
The book is... (more)