Psychoanalysis Books
Object-relations theory and clinical psychoanalysis
A collection of papers detailing the basics and applications of Kernberg's psychoanalytic object-relations theory, illuminating a wide range of clinical issues, including: the treatment of borderline... (more)
The Wolf-Man and Sigmund Freud
It is a well known that the Wolf-Man was the subject of what James Strachey described as 'the most elaborate and no doubt the most important of all Freud's case histories'. It is less well known that... (more)
New maladies of the soul
In this major study, the author addresses the need for new psychoanalytical models to cope with a moral crisis resulting from a breakdown of values, a loss of ideology and deteriorating beliefs. She... (more)
Boundary and Space: An Introduction to the Work of D.W. Winnicott
D.W. Winnicott - one of this centuries most important theorists - is the focus of the new edition of this extraordinary volume. Drawing extensively upon Winnicott's own papers and lectures, the main... (more)
Lost Angels: Psychoanalysis and cinema
This study takes Freud's preoccupation with femininity and feminine fantasy as a starting point and goes on to explore his differentiation between masculine and feminine forms of fantasy through... (more)
Strangers to Ourselves
Explores the notion of the 'stranger' - the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own - as well as the notion of strangeness within the self.
An Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary theory and practice
A guide to the main principles and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Designed as an introductory text suitable for a wide range of courses, this account presents the core... (more)
Insight and Responsibility: Lectures on the ethical implications of psychoanalytical insight
This text examines the ethical implications of psychoanalytical insight and the origins of ethics. Topics covered include: how clinical evidence is made up of a mixture of subjective and objective;... (more)
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
Addresses the subject of melancholia in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. (more)
How Freud worked: First-hand accounts of patients
An examination of the work that Freud did with his patients. This work presents analyses of interviews with ten of Freud's patients, in an attempt to find some answer to the controversy surrounding... (more)
The Freudian Mystique: Freud, Women, and Feminism
An examination of Freud's life and work, which argues that his vision was limited both by the social climate in which he worked, and by personal experiences which he preferred not to deal with. (more)
The Freud Reader
Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-Century life. To understand Freud entails exploration not only of Freud's scientific and psychological papers, but also his writings on art,... (more)
How Does Analysis Cure?
"A landmark book which will exert increasing influence with passing time. . .its success lies in the accomplishment of its stated aims."
- Carl T. Rotenberg, Journal of the American Academy of... (more)
Freud and his mother
This text aims to increase understanding of how Freud's relationship to his mother affected his life and work. It explores pre-oedipal aspects of Freud's personality previously ignored by Freud and... (more)
Freud and Forbidden Knowledge
A collection of essays that all use psychoanalysis to uncover the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the western tradition, from the Bible to Hamlet.
Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain: The Work of Melanie Klein, W.R.D. Fairbairn and D.W. Winnicott
Tracing the line of succession from Sigmund Freud, through Melanie Klein to Fairbairn and Winnicott, Judith Hughes demonstrates the internal development of the British school of psychoanalysis and... (more)
Gender and Psychoanalytic Treatment
This collection of essays explores the significance of gender in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. Areas covered include Freud's formulations on women in the light of object relations... (more)
D.W. Winnicott
Presents the life, theoretical contributions, and legacy of Donald Winnicott who, as well as a psychoanalyst, was also a child psychologist and paediatrician. The book explains in detail the... (more)
Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies
Aims to provide tools for diagnosing and treating severe cases of personality disorder, including borderline and narcissistic structures. (more)
Psychodynamics and Cognition
Outlines ways that methods and ideas from cognitive and information science can be used to reformulate psychoanalytic concepts and to test them outside the psychoanalytic situation. Based on a 1984... (more)
Psychoanalysis: Toward the Second Century
Discusses how recent advances in infant research, ethology, cognitive psychology, narrative studies, and neurobiology are generating far-reaching changes in theory and technique. Divided into... (more)
Nuances of Technique in Dynamic Psychotherapy
This book aims to be a synthesis of an object relations psychoanalytic point of view with both classical psychodynamics and theory from cognitive psychology. Integration of the various psychotherapy... (more)