Psychoanalysis Books
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker James Grotstein, A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often complex work of W. R. Bion.
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Marion Milner: A Contemporary Introduction
This focused and thorough book by Alberto Stefana and Alessio Gamba delves into Marion Milner’s contribution to psychoanalytic clinical theory and technique.
The authors offer an overview of... (more)
The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil: Supervisions and Commentaries
The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil is comprised of thirteen transcriptions of supervisions Wilfred Bion conducted during his three teaching and speaking tours of Brazil.
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The Mystery of Emotions: Seeking a Theory of What We Feel
Psychoanalysis is, above all, the science of the emotions but, as yet, there is no single accepted theory of affects. Instead, there are many, all of them too limited, based, as they are, on... (more)
Psychoanalysis in China
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Tea with Winnicott
Donald Winnicott is currently the most popular author in contemporary psychoanalysis. His writings are cited in bibliographies even more frequently than those of Sigmund Freud. And yet how many... (more)
Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach
Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event.... (more)
On Freud's "Neurosis and Psychosis" and "The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis": 100 Years Later
On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” explores these two key papers on the topics of psychosis and neurosis and their relationship to the unconscious... (more)
On Freud's Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through
In On Freud’s “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” international contributors from a range of psychoanalytic backgrounds reflect on this key 1914 paper.
Each chapter considers an aspect... (more)
Wittgenstein's Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games
Wittgenstein’s Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games presents a dialogue between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author Françoise Davoine, and Davoine’s patients with extreme... (more)
Mourning and Metabolization: Close Readings in the Psychoanalytic Literature of Loss
By bringing together perspectives from psychoanalysis and literary studies and considering the reciprocal relation between ideas about mourning and our internal worlds, this book provides a guide to... (more)
Lessons in Psychoanalysis: Psychopathology and Clinical Psychoanalysis for Trainee Analysts
Inspired by many successful years of teaching to analysts in training, Franco De Masi has selected the most significant lessons and added a few new ones to provide an enriching discussion of... (more)
Misogyny in Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, misogyny hides in plain sight, seemingly above and beyond the usual conventions of workplace etiquette or even a vague awareness of sexism. It is commonplace in psychoanalytic... (more)
Transgender Identities: A Contemporary Introduction
This important new book by Alessandra Lemma provides a succinct overview of psychoanalytic understandings, approaches and controversies around transgender identifications.
Illustrated with case... (more)
Psychoanalytic Supervision
Drawing on deep reserves of experience and theoretical and research knowledge, Nancy McWilliams presents a fresh perspective on psychodynamic supervision in this highly instructive work. McWilliams... (more)
Portrait of a Life: Melanie Klein and the Artists
Melanie Klein was a Viennese psychoanalyst who extended the work of Sigmund Freud in significant and innovative ways. She lived and worked in the UK from 1926 until her death in 1959. During her life... (more)
The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: Comparisons and Dialogues
The main aims of this book are to introduce the distinctive clinical paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott, to compare and contrast the way in which their theories evolved, and to present a... (more)
Life Narcissism Death Narcissism
This title illustrates the number of forms of narcisssim met with in clinical practice, and draws attention to the duplicity underlying its structure. The author also shows that it is necessary to... (more)
Time and the Unconscious: Daring and Creativity in Wilfred R. Bion
Bion’s unfashionable thought is a challenge for our times in which anaesthesia and mass thinking prevail. The themes this book addresses are time and the unconscious.
In the present/past, the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore, miss or sidestep? What factors, personal, social, political, inform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic... (more)
Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939: A Biographical Compendium
Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939 draws on a wide range of primary sources to present all the datable events that took place in Sigmund Freud’s life, shining new light on his day-to-day... (more)
Body Words and the Analyst's Use of Self: Transforming the Unspeakable in Clinical Process
In this book, it becomes impossible to stand apart from the analytic field as abstract concepts, such as dissociation, intersubjectivity, and unconscious communication, as well as newly coined ones,... (more)
Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity: From Toxic to Seminal
Drawing on a broad range of psychoanalytic, cultural and social influences, the author examines the concept of toxic masculinity for how it brings into focus a widespread anxiety about toxicity... (more)
Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion
Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion takes a fresh approach to this much revered analyst, focusing on the unique contributions to be found in his analytical and supervisorial work and... (more)
Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis: Creativity and Authenticity at Work
Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis celebrates the lives and work of female psychoanalysts whose significant contributions to the Independent Tradition have hitherto been overshadowed by... (more)
Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis
Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the... (more)
How the Mind Works: Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
There is a great deal of confusion about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, even among practitioners of these methods. One reason is the sheer volume of psychoanalytic psychotherapies... (more)
Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother
In Fratriarchy, Juliet Mitchell expands her ground-breaking theories on the sibling trauma and the Law of the Mother. Writing as a psychoanalytic practitioner, she shows what happens from the ground... (more)
W.R. Bion as Clinician: Steering Between Concept and Practice
Underpinned by rigorous close readings of his oeuvre, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the development, practice and evolution of Wilfred Bion’s clinical psychoanalytic work.
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Finding a Way to the Child: Selected Clinical Papers 1983-2021
Margaret Rustin’s writing is characterised not only by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her imaginative sensitivity to the emotional lives of children and young people, the depth of her... (more)