Psychoanalysis Books
Standard Edition Vol 1: Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts
Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts (1886 - 1899).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)
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)
Cézanne and the Post-Bionian Field: An Exploration and a Meditation
By inviting a 'conversation' between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cezanne-the 'father of modern art'-and perhaps the most vital body of theory in contemporary psychoanalysis,... (more)
Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis: Clinical Perspectives on Muriel Dimen’s Concept of the “Primal Crime”
Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen (1942-2016), a prominent feminist anthropologist and relational psychoanalyst, Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis challenges... (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)
Reading Freud’s Patients: Memoir, Narrative and the Analysand
What would the story of analysis look like if it were told through the eyes of the analysand? How would the patient write and present the analytic experience? How would the narrative as written by... (more)
Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment
Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political... (more)
Beginning Analysis: On the Processes of Initiating Psychoanalysis
How does a psychoanalysis begin? What goes on when analyst and prospective analysand meet for the first time, and what processes are activated to make the project for an analysis possible? This... (more)
On Mental Growth: Bion's Ideas that Transform Psychoanalytical Clinical Practice
Psychoanalysis is indebted to Bion for some of its most original moments. He took it to its limits, establishing a dialogue with other disciplines and integrating the arts and sciences. This dialogue... (more)
Turning the Tide: The Psychoanalytic Approach of the Fitzjohn's Unit to Patients with Complex Needs
Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of developmental approaches to mental health which have been strongly influenced by the ideas of psychoanalysis. It has... (more)
The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Work in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach... (more)
Initiating Psychoanalysis: Perspectives
Initiating Psychoanalysis presents an international collection of papers brought together by the Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis of the European Psychoanalytic Federation and addresses the... (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)
Envy and Gratitude Revisited
These stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalytic inspiration. Sixteen highly regarded analysts,... (more)
Reading Freud: A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings
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Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics
Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, providing an overview of the wide variety of psychoanalytic ideas that are... (more)
Standard Edition Vol 2: Studies on Hysteria
Studies on Hysteria (1893 - 1895). Includes:
On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena: A Preliminary Compunction (1893).
Case Histories: Anna O., Emmy von N., Lucy R., Katharina,... (more)
Reverie and Interpretation: Sensing Something Human
A text exploring the frontiers of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of the analyst and patient in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity. The author shows how... (more)
The Patient and the Analyst: The Basis of the Psychoanalytic Process
This is a completely revised and enlarged edition of the well-known classic by Sandler, Dare and Holder. In the twenty years since the previous edition was published much progress has been made in... (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.
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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 Psychoanalytic Zero: A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues
The Psychoanalytic Zero: A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues is written from the unique perspective of a Western-trained Asian psychoanalyst and applies principles of Eastern philosophy to... (more)
A for Adoption: An Exploration of the Adoption Experience for Families and Professionals
The experience of adoption, both adopting and being adopted, can stir up deep emotional pain, often related to loss and early trauma. A for Adoption provides insight and support to those families and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Dreams: Bion, the Field and the Viscera of the Mind
Psychoanalysis and Dreams explores some of the cornerstones of Antonino Ferro's theoretical model but also attempts to extend the dreamlike boundaries of the model. Based on Bion's theory of alpha... (more)
Explorations in Autism: A Psychoanalytical Study
'Explorations in Autism is a turning-point in both the understanding of and the clinical approach to autism. The clinical material gradually unveils the geography of the internal mother (which proved... (more)
Three Papers of W.R. Bion
Three Papers of W.R. Bion features two previously unpublished papers and one which has only previously appeared in The Complete Works of W. R. Bion (2014). Characterised by Bion's directness, clarity... (more)
Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery: The Genesis of Suffering and the Role of Psychoanalysis
This captivating book explores Antonino Ferro's conception of the way the mind works, his interpretation of the analytic understanding of psychopathology, his reconceptualization of the therapeutic... (more)
Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy and the Tavistock Model
Couples on the Couch provides a clear guide to applying the Tavistock model of couple psychotherapy in clinical psychoanalytic practice, offering a compelling sampling of ideas about couple... (more)
Bion in Buenos Aires: Seminars, Case Presentation and Supervision
These newly discovered clinical seminars of Wilfred Bion, which include supervisions, personal case presentations, and lectures on psychoanalytic theory, represent his initial foray into many years... (more)