Psychoanalysis Books
Streams of Consciousness: Notebooks 1974–1990
Never originally intended for publication, Streams of Consciousness represent the private stream of ongoing thinking that has accompanied Christopher Bollas’ clinical practice and extensive published... (more)
Maternal Subjectivity: A Dissociated Self-State
In this book, Ellen Toronto reveals the dissociation of maternal subjectivity from human experience and provides a psychoanalytic exploration of the (non-)history of motherhood to make possible an... (more)
Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity: Sade Reloaded
Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity considers both the vast realm of sexual diversities emerging under capitalism and outlines what a psychoanalytic clinic that considers these diversities... (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)
Growing Through the Erotic Transference: An Analysand's Journey
The book offers an in-depth case study of the erotic transference experienced by a female analysand with her male analyst, exploring how the shifting phases of erotic transference help the analysand... (more)
Psychosomatics Today: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
This revised edition of Psychosomatics Today presents a thorough introduction to the different international schools of psychosomatics, written by leading professionals, and includes three new... (more)
Sandor Ferenczi: A Contemporary Introduction
This book aims to present an up-to-date introduction and critical study of one of the most important psychoanalysts of all times, Sandor Ferenczi.
The book presents Ferenczi as a person; his... (more)
Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud
‘When my father was a little boy in Vienna, he told Anna Freud this dream: He is walking on the rim of the white gravel path that leads around the oval pond in the upper part of the Belvedere... (more)
The Cure for Psychoanalysis
In his first essay, ‘The Magic of Winnicott: Playing and reality, and reality’, Adam Phillips makes clear the subtlety and wisdom of Winnicott’s concept of play. Its inspiration came from a wonderful... (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)
Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Politics, History, and Mourning
Today sees the rise of nationalism, the return of totalitarian parties in Europe to electoral success, and the rise of the alt-right and white supremacists in the US. Thus, there is urgency for... (more)
Studies in Extended Metapsychology: Clinical Applications of Bion's Ideas
The work of Wilfred Bion, by its very nature being a major step forward in the psychoanalytical model making of the mental apparatus, will undoubtably require many years for its full assimilation... (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)
Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory
Clinical Encounters in Sexuality makes an intervention into the fields of clinical psychoanalysis and sexuality studies, in an effort to think about a range of issues relating to sexuality from a... (more)
A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice
Often overlooked because he is so easy to mock, ridicule, or just plain misunderstand, Freud introduced many techniques for clinical practice that are still widely employed today. Yet surprisingly,... (more)
Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression: A Treatment Manual
Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) is a manualised, time-limited model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy comprising twenty-eight weekly sessions for the adolescent patient and seven... (more)
Imaginary Existences: Dream, Daydream, Phantasy, Fiction
Imaginary Existences interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and... (more)
Driving Soma: A Transformational Process in the Analytic Encounter
Plunged into the experience of an analytic session, analysand and analyst can come closer to what Freud terms the "primary processes". A clear-cut distinction between body and mind tends to become... (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)
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)
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)
The Learning Relationship: Psychoanalytic Thinking in Education
This book offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational institutions. It looks at the origins of learning in... (more)
Shame and Jealousy
A volume in the Psychoanalytic Ideas Series, published for the Institute of Psychoanalysis by Karnac. Here, shame and jealousy are examined as hidden turmoils; as basic human feelings found in... (more)
Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality
Inside Lives belongs to the heart of the thinking and working of the Tavistock Clinic. Its aim is to bring psychoanalytic theory to life, to make it accessible to a much wider range of readers, both... (more)
Playing and Reality
What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that... (more)
Elements of Psychoanalysis
Elements is a discussion of categorising the ideational context and emotional experience that may occur in a psychoanalytic interview. The text aims to expand the reader's understanding of cognition... (more)
Plea for a Measure of Abnormality
This is Joyce McDougall's most comprehensive clinical and theoretical book. Its title conveys her tolerant stance toward human differences and forms of deviance. It is among the wisest and best-loved... (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)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 6 Number 1 & 2
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)
Healing the Fractured Mind: A Revolutionary Method for Treating Addiction and Other Disorders
Healing the Fractured Mind: A Revolutionary Method for Treating Addiction and Other Disorders offers the reader a journey into the human mind in search of an answer to the human paradox: how can we... (more)