Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times
This book describes Trumpism: the strong allegiance to former President Donald Trump that is in evidence among a sizable portion of the US population. How did Trump come to be elected in 2016, and... (more)
Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic Sensibility
Ogden sets out a movement in contemporary psychoanalysis toward a new sensibility, reflecting a shift in emphasis from what he calls epistemological psychoanalysis (having to do with knowing and... (more)
Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry
This book presents and elaborates on the rationale and implications of the transformational dimension of psychoanalysis. In so doing, it attempts to extend psychoanalytic theory and practice beyond... (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 II: Richard Week-by-Week: Melanie Klein's 'Narrative of a Child Analysis'
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)
Dream Life: A Re-examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique
"Dreams are my landscape", said Meltzer. In this book he re-establishes psychoanalysis as the art of reading dreams, and dream-life as the core of mental processes. Dreams are not just puzzles to be... (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)
On Adolescence: Inside Stories
Adolescence and adolescent states of mind have seldom captured so much attention publicly, nor have they stirred so much anxiety and disturbance privately. This long acknowledged, problematic,... (more)
Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives presents a broad selection of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking on sexuality from a wide range of psychoanalytic traditions. Sexuality remains... (more)
Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat
Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat examines the themes that surface when considering clinical situations where patients feel stuck and where a failure to develop impedes the... (more)
Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women: Second Edition
The analysis of women by women has made a valuable contribution to the development of psychoanalytic technique and theories on femininity, sexuality and embodiment. Female Experience presents... (more)
Aggressivity, Narcissism and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship
A leading psychoanalytic clinician and theoretician presents his thoughts on the latest psychodynamic developments and insights related to treatment of severe personality disorders. Dividing his... (more)
Fairbairn and the Origins of Object Relations
This work brings together the work of the most eminent of Fairbairn's followers. It includes sections on child abuse, infant development, and borderline and narcissistic disorders. Contributors... (more)
Character Styles
Johnson shows how basic life issues underlie the severe pathology of personality disorder, the nagging symptoms of neurosis, and the more functional coping and adaptation of the character styles.... (more)
From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness: Second Edition
Violence is all around us; yet, despite its widespread prevalence, we remain unclear about its causes. In this book, Felicity de Zulueta begins by defining ‘violence' as distinct from ‘aggression',... (more)
Is It Ever Just Sex?
'It was just sex…'
It’s a familiar claim. But it’s also an impossibility, as Darian Leader shows in this delightfully thought-provoking study.
Our bodies aren’t just sticks that make fire when... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Female to Male Transition
Drawing on theory from a range of schools of psychoanalytic thought, this timely book addresses and explores the phenomenon of the increasing number of people who were assigned female at birth and... (more)
“Dear Institute…”: Candid Commentaries From Candidates in Psychoanalytic Training
This book is a collection of commentaries by 40 psychoanalysts-in training spanning across 29 different countries, shedding light on the state of contemporary psychoanalysis- its training, practice... (more)
How Does Analysis Work?: Examples of Lacanian Interpretation
How Does Analysis Work? uses short, compelling vignettes from people in Lacanian analysis to explore how analytic interpretation works.
Insights, revelations, connections, meanings and... (more)
A Transactional Analysis of Motherhood and Disturbances in the Maternal: From Pre-conception to Human Being
Grounded in research and clinical experience and with plenty of case examples, this book provides a relational Transactional Analysis diagnosis and treatment strategy to give immediate relief for... (more)
Formative Media: Psychoanalysis and Digital Media Platforms
Formative Media presents a psychoanalytic and psychosocial inquiry into the significance of the most widely used digital platforms – including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter (X), and Instagram –... (more)
Psychoanalytic Principles in Psychiatric Practice: A Remedy by Truth
In this approachable book, Mark Kinet offers a unique methodology for integrating psychoanalytic work in the psychiatric setting.
Acknowledging the systemic rupture between psychoanalysis and... (more)
Film Psychoanalysis: Relational Approaches to Film Interpretation
Through the development of psychoanalytically-informed film interpretation, Andreas Hamburger provides new insights into the experience of watching films and their influence upon our internal... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional... (more)
Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities
Following Freud’s rather cold conception of fathers and a relative neglect of their role in psychoanalytic theory is a challenge to continue more recent efforts to develop a psychoanalytically... (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.
Starting... (more)
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)
In Leaps and Bounds: Psychic Development and its Facilitation in Treatment
A tour de force from the inimitable Salman Akhtar. Dr Akhtar brings his encyclopaedic knowledge of psychoanalysis to present a deceptively simple guide to personality development across the full... (more)