Psychoanalysis Books
The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis
The Emergence of Analytic Oneness is a profound and penetrating exploration of a fundamental dimension of analytic presence and patient-analyst interconnectedness that offers new possibilities for... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Adolescent Development
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Adolescent Development: Non-Linear Perspectives on the Regulation of the Self explores how psychoanalysis can combine its theoretical perspectives with more recent... (more)
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process: Encountering Well-Founded Fear
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process looks at the psychosocial assessment of asylum seekers from three perspectives: forensic, psychodynamic, and political and... (more)
Changing Notions of the Feminine: Confronting Psychoanalysts' Prejudices
As culture changes, so do notions of the feminine. Today, women are exploring new gender identities, gender dynamics, and family configurations. They are questioning and redefining what it is to be... (more)
Dissecting the Superego: Moralities Under the Psychoanalytic Microscope
Dissecting the Superego: Moralities Under the Psychoanalytic Microscope offers a comprehensive overview of how the superego, the workings of our moral faculties, may be understood and clinically... (more)
Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice
Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science with those working in the different... (more)
Arrogance: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Arrogance as a specific constellation of affect, fantasy, and behavior has received little attention in psychoanalysis. This is striking in light of the enormous amount of literature accumulated on... (more)
Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives
Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy builds on Bjoern Salomonsson's experiences as a psychoanalytic consultant working with parents and their babies. Emotional problems during the... (more)
British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition
British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition is a new and extended edition of The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition, which explored the successes... (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)
The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction
The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction explores Bollas's extraordinarily wide contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis. The book aims to introduce and explain the fundamentals... (more)
Freud and the Sexual
Freud and the Sexual is the translation of Laplanche’s Sexual: La sexualité élargie au sens freudien, his work from 2000 to 2006. Clear and direct, often witty, this volume is a pleasure to read and... (more)
Finding the Body in the Mind: Embodied Memories, Trauma, and Depression
Since the 1990s many different scientific disciplines have intensified their interest in the so called 'mind-body-problem': psychoanalysis, philosophy, academic psychology, cognitive science and... (more)
The Analytic Field and its Transformations
The Analytic Field and its Transformations presents a collection of articles, written jointly by Antonino Ferro and Giuseppe Civitarese in recent years, all revolving around the post-Bionian model of... (more)
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated,... (more)
Working With Difficult Patients: From Neurosis to Psychosis
In this book the author examines the series of connections that give rise to the intimate relationship between environment and individual in the construction of emotional suffering, emphasising both... (more)
Freud's "On Narcissism: An Introduction"
On Narcissism: An Introduction is a densely packed essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated today – from the role of narcissism in normal and pathological development and the... (more)
Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations
A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience - what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable - falls out of social discourse, but... (more)
Psychosomatics Today: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Psychosomatics have classically been of peripheral importance within our wellknown theoretical models, despite the fact that they do have a history in the field of psychoanalysis. This might be owing... (more)
Under the Skin: A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification
Considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and... (more)
On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"
Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that is, by loss. The distinction often made is that mourning occurs after the death of a loved one while in melancholia the object of... (more)
Transference and Countertransference: A Unifying Focus of Psychoanalysis
Since Freud's initial papers on transference and countertransference, these vast and inexhaustible subjects have occupied psychoanalysts. Transference and countertransference, the essence of the... (more)
Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference
Racism's external forms, from racial assault to petty discrimination, are readily recognized. However, its internal dimensions are easily overlooked: how can we understand what happens in the mind of... (more)
Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis
What Neville Symington is attempting to do in this book is to trace the pathway along which he has travelled to become a person. This has run side by side with trying to become an analyst. The author... (more)
Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency
In this volume contemporary staff describe their thinking and clinical work. Theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics and the... (more)
The Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique
A revised and updated edition of this recent classic, including new material on insight and early development, amongst others. Within each subject, the author presents the theories and observations... (more)
Kleinian Theory: A Contemporary Perspective
This book aims to present an account of the main theoretical concepts in Kleinian theory as they have been postulated by Melanie Klein, together with newer developments and formulations inspired by... (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 5: The Interpretation of Dreams: Part 2 & On Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams Part II (1900) and On Dreams (1901). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete Psychological... (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)