Psychoanalysis Books
Anxiety and Neurosis
Anxiety may be debilitating or stimulating; it can result in neurotic symptoms or in improved, heightened performance in an actor or athlete. It is something every human being has experienced.
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Narcissistic Wounds: Clinical Perspectives
This work synthesizes current thinking on narcissism making such disorders more recognisable, understandable and treatable. It emphasizes the various aspects of narcissistic pathology and examines... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Catholicism
This is an exploration of the similarities and differences between these two, often feuding, perspectives on living: psychoanalysis and Catholicism.
The Primer of Object Relations: Second Edition
Formerly entitled Scharff Notes, this is a short primer on object relations therapy. The content of the book derives from students' most frequently asked questions, together with the Scharffs'... (more)
Psychosis: understanding and treatment
Provides coverage of the official theories surrounding schizophrenia and examines the range of ideas on what causes psychosis and how it can be worked with. The first half of the book deals with the... (more)
Transference Neurosis and Transference Psychosis: Toward a Basic Unity
An intensely personal, idiosyncratic, yet earnest and straightforward book. Although some will disagree with the theoretical ideas, it would be impossible not to empathize with the author's struggle... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Infant Research
This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then... (more)
What Do Psychoanalysts Want?: The Problem of Aims in Psychoanalytic Therapy
An examination of the aims and objectives of psychoanalysis and what the discipline is really attempting to achieve. (more)
Understanding Mental Objects
In this study the changing meanings of important psychoanalytic concepts are traced from context to context, and underlying theoretical issues are discussed in depth. The text includes a historical... (more)
The Truth About Freud's Technique: The Encounter With the Real
This incisive reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique challenges conventional notions on psychoanalysis and reveals a more personal and humanistic side of Freud. It argues for a return to a... (more)
Slings and Arrows
Examines what practitioners can do to help the victims of narcissistic wounds to integrate, mourn and heal them. (more)
In the Image of God: A Psychoanalystis View
A volume of personal reflections from a psychoanalyst and believer in the Christian faith. He describes how his belief affects his work. 128 pages. (more)
Regression to dependence: A second opportunity for ego integration and developmental progression
This text extends the proposal that regression is a necessary component of the treatment of disturbed patients - particularly those with significant false self pathology. It argues that the therapist... (more)
Life and Death in Psychoanalysis
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Classics in Psychoanalytic Technique: Revised Edition
A collection of seminal writings by over 40 prominent psychoanalysts on topics such as: the dynamics of transference, the "real" relationship, the meaning and uses of countertransference, the... (more)
A Quest for Answers: A Primer of Understanding and Treating Severe Personality Disorders
This text examines severe personality disorders from various angles. It covers: diagnosis and differential diagnosis; structure and dynamics; origins and development; evaluation and triage;... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader
What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? The book offers clear and straightforward... (more)
Difficulties in the Analytic Encounter
This book represents an odyssey through the career of a thoughtful and serious psychoanalyst. John Klauber, a strong and articulate member of the middle or "independent" group of the British... (more)
Freedom to Relate: Psychoanalytic Explorations
What is the relationship between psychoanalysis and human freedom? Does psychoanalysis enhance it? Is it coercive? What are the limits? These may appear to be deceptively simple questions, but Roger... (more)
A Primer of Kleinian Therapy
This work defines and illustrates the Kleinian approach to psychotherapy. Previous books on Kleinian approaches have concerned themselves almost exclusively with psychoanalysis. This book... (more)
Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self
Based on a series of clinical studies of schizoid problems, this book is a sequel to Harry Guntrip's theoretical study of the emergence of the schizoid problem, Personality Structure and Human... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self
Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self presents, in a readily accessible form, the overall theoretical position adopted by Harry Guntrip in his two earlier books Personality Structure and Human... (more)
Pre-Object Relatedness: Earliest Attachment and the Psychoanalytic Situation
Explores the primitive (yet highly complex) emotional world of the infant, a preverbal world that predates memory, symbolic representation, self-reflection and verbal description. With detailed... (more)
Personality Structure and Human Interaction: The Developing Synthesis of Psychodynamic Theory
How has a theory of man as a social being to be formulated if we are to do justice to his individuality, to the subtle ways in which his love and hate compete within his relations with others and to... (more)