Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works
Thomas Ogden is internationally recognized as one of the most creative analytic thinkers writing today. In this book he brings his original analytic ideas to life by means of his own method of... (more)
Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis
Wilfred Bion once said, “I use the Kabbalah as a framework for psychoanalysis.” Both are preoccupied with catastrophe and faith, infinity and intensity of experience, shatter and growth of being that... (more)
The Significance of Dreams: Bridging Clinical and Extraclinical Research in Psychoanalysis
This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud’s insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern... (more)
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: Working on Identity and Selves
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity provides psychoanalytic insights into dissociation, in particular dissociative identity disorder (DID), and offers a variety of responses to the questions of... (more)
The Early Years of Life: Psychoanalytical Development Theory According to Freud, Klein, and Bion
'This book provides a powerfully argued and beautifully constructed account of the early development of the child in the family context from a psychoanalytic perspective. It draws particularly on the... (more)
Rediscovering Psychoanalysis: Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting
This book approaches rediscovering psychoanalysis from four vantage points derived from the authors experience as a clinician, a supervisor, a teacher, and a reader of psychoanalysis. Thomas Ogden... (more)
Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable: The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches
How do we know when what is happening between two people should be called psychoanalysis? What is a psychoanalytic process and how do we know when one is taking place? Psychoanalysis Comparable and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy
People like to talk. We know that talking to an attentive and thoughtful listener can be helpful in clarifying conscious and unconscious feelings, thoughts, and motivations. But is talk enough? The... (more)
This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries
Why is dreaming the mind's single most important psychoanalytic activity? This Art of Psychoanalysis offers a unique perspective on psychoanalysis that features a new way of conceptualizing the role... (more)
Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context
Melanie Klein left Germany in 1926 and settled in London where she soon quarrelled with Anna Freud. Klein pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of... (more)
A Mind of One's Own: A Kleinian View of Self and Object
This collection of papers, written over the last six years by the author, focuses on the importance of distinguishing self from object in psychological development. He aims to demonstrate the... (more)
Love, Guilt and Reparation
This book shows the growth of Melanie Klein's work and ideas between 1921 and 1945. The earlier papers reveal her intense preoccupation with the impact of infant anxieties upon child development. The... (more)
Cogitations
Cogitations, the last of the posthumous publications, is a collection of occasional writings representing Bion's attempts to clarify and evaluate both his own ideas and those of others by casting... (more)
Narcissism: A New Theory
The author presents fresh insights into the subject of narcissism, drawing on his vast clinical experience of treating people suffering from this disorder. (more)
The Oedipus Complex Today: Clinical Implications
A collection of papers focusing on the Kleinian conception of the Oedipus complex, how this is now understood, and what effect it has had on clinical practice.
The papers by Ronald Britton,... (more)
Attention and Interpretation
Bion's central thesis in this volume is that for the study of people, whether individually or in groups, a cardinal requisite is accurate observation, accompanied by accurate appreciation and... (more)
Transformations
Transformations continues the investigation of various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice which Bion commenced with Learning from Experience (1962) and pursued in Elements of... (more)
The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45
A complete record, including all relevant papers and correspondence, of the psychoanalytic feud between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein.
Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
A series of papers divided into three groups: 'Health and Illness', 'The Family', and 'Reflections on society'. (more)
Psychoanalysis, Literature and War: Papers 1972-1995
This collection of writings by Hanna Segal shows how the same conflicts between life and death instincts, phantasy and reality, are experienced in the consulting room, reflected in literature, and... (more)
Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organisations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients
A innovative attempt to create a third position in Kleinian psychoanalysis, in order to explain pathological organisations of the personality.
Subjects of Analysis
In this brilliant contribution to psychoanlaytic theory and practice, the author has once again challenged psychoanalytic clinicians to expand the conceptual envelope that confines and constricts... (more)
Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference
In this work, the author discusses gender issues from the perspective of developmental psychoanalysis. She makes a case for what she calls gender heterodoxy - a view of the similarities and... (more)
Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood
To Freud, female sexuality remained something of a mystery: a riddle and a dark continent. He urged his female colleagues to enlighten him. Many have since done so - and this book is a most vivid and... (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 instinct. (more)
Love Relations: Normality and Pathology
From adolescence to old age, this work examines the success and failure of sexual love in couples. Amongst other topics, it describes the biological and psychological determinants and elements of the... (more)
A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: New Edition
This dictionary provides helpful and incisive definitions which, read together, comprise a sustained commentary on psychoanalysis. The text has been thoroughly revised with an extended introduction,... (more)
Impasse and Interpretation: Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline and Neurotic Patients
A powerful argument for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms, and their alleviation through psychoanalytic means.