Psychoanalysis Books
Standard Edition Vol 12: The Case of Schreber, Papers on Technique and Other Works
Case History of Schreber, Papers on Technique and Other Works (1911 - 1913). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete... (more)
Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies: Eating Disorders and Other Pathologies
Klein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. In a highly... (more)
Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers
A collection of Betty Joseph's most important papers, exploring projective identification, transference, countertransference, unconscious phantasy, and Kleinian views on envy and the death... (more)
On Private Madness
André Green occupies a unique position in psychoanalysis today, and his work represents a synthesis of the traditions of Lacan, Winnicott and Bion. This volume collects fourteen of his papers... (more)
Holocaust Trauma and Psychic Deformation: Psychoanalytic Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor
Written by a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, this moving and important book examines the massive psychic trauma suffered by a generation of Holocaust survivors. It not only provides... (more)
The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis
Arguably the most informative and readable account of the development of British independent psychoanalysis, Eric Rayner’s The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis offers a coherent account of... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis: Genesis, Psychopathology and Case Study
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis shows how, by understanding the antecedents and dynamics of psychosis, a psychoanalytic approach can offer a long-term alternative to the only... (more)
How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist
How do you develop a truly rich and rewarding career in psychotherapy? How can you find joy in such painful work? How do you develop your skills and capacities in the field? How can you conquer your... (more)
The Work of the Negative
The author draws attention to the work of the negative in Freud, examining aspects such as dream works and the work of mourning. The "work of the negative" refers to how we cope, or do not cope, with... (more)
Envy And Gratitude
Melanie Klein's writings, particularly on infant development and psychosis, have been crucial both to theoretical work and to clinical practice. Envy and Gratitude collects her writings from 1946... (more)
The Matrix of the Mind: Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue
A comprehensive overview of object relations theory from a Kleinian perspective. It includes chapters on phantasy, the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, internal objects, and the work of... (more)
Primitive Agony and Symbolization
The fundamental outlook of this book is clinical. It attempts to establish a unitary model of the processes at work in different forms of narcissistic pathology, and to offer a model that is both an... (more)
The Groups Book: Psychoanalytic Group Therapy: Principles and Practice
Including The Groups Manual, A Treatment Manual, with Clinical Vignettes.
'This book is very important both for psychoanalysis and for social science. Psychoanalysis began with the treatment of... (more)
Standard Edition Vol 1: Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts
Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts (1886 - 1899). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete... (more)
Freud's Models of the Mind: An Introduction
The authors succeed in putting Freud's models of the mind into a historical and developmental framework and show the complexity of his thinking on the relationship between the conscious and... (more)
Learning from Experience
'As the problems raised in this book are fundamental to learning they have a long history of investigation and discussion. In phsycho-analytical practice, particularly with patients displaying... (more)
The Primitive Edge of Experience
Ogden constructs an anatomy and physiology of the psychic apparatus based on the interplay of the depressive, the paranoid-schizoid and the autistic - contiguous positions. The last position is his... (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)
Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being
Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being combines psychoanalytic, existential and dramaturgical perspectives on the study of anxiety.
The book explores the implications for... (more)
The Apprehension of Beauty: The Role of Aesthetic Conflict in Development, Art and Violence
This volume has grown over the years as a family project of Martha Harris, her two daughters Meg and Morag and her husband, Donald Meltzer. It therefore has its roots in English literature and its... (more)
The Fifth Principle
The Fifth Principle is the first of three books that take as their subject aspects of the author's life. This book reflects upon a period between birth and eight years of age; the second book will... (more)
Dreaming and Thinking
This book includes papers on the dream space and countertransference, the dream space, the analytic situation and eating disorders, dreams of borderline patients and the 'oracle' in dreams: the past... (more)
Standard Edition Vol 20: An Autobiographical Study
An Autobiographical Study, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Lay Analysis and Other Works (1925-1926). 312 pages.
The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green
This collection of essays explores the concept of the "dead mother" which refers to the process of mourning that takes place in the child following maternal depression, when the child experiences the... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Illegitimacy, Adoption and Reproduction Technology: Strangers as Kin
In this book, Prophecy Coles traces the existential history of the unwanted child with particular attention to the illegitimate child, linking myth, literature and clinical practice in the historical... (more)
On Freud’s "The Uncanny"
On Freud's "The Uncanny" explores Freud's 1919 essay of the same name and elaboration of the concept of the uncanny and how others or `The Other' can impact on our selves. Catalina Bronstein and... (more)
Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: Paternal Subjectivity interfaces theoretical ideas about fatherhood and their incorporation into the clinical practice of... (more)
The Digital Age on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Practice and New Media
The Digital Age is on the couch. Working today, it is essential that clinicians understand the world we live in. The transition from an industrial economy to an information economy impacts not just... (more)
Bion: 365 Quotes
This is a book of 365 quotes from the work of the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion. Something of an enigma, Bion often doesn’t write in the way one would expect of a psychoanalyst, but is being read ever... (more)
Talking Cure: Mind and Method of the Tavistock Clinic
What makes the mind develop? What helps children grow up? When can we think of ourselves as adults? Why do we fall in love? Why do our feelings sometimes ‘get in the way’? How do families affect us?... (more)