Psychoanalysis Books

New and Published Books

1. A Practical Casebook of Time-Limited Psychoanalytic Work

   A Modern Kleinian approach

   By Robert Waska

   Modern Kleinian Therapy is a model of effective psychoanalytic work that offers relief to deep internal conflicts by establishing and maintaining analytic contact, and beginning to unravel, modify, and heal turbulent and torn minds. This book defines Modern Kleinian Therapy as a modality for...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. The Ontology of Psychology

   Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind

   By Linda A.W. Brakel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In this volume, Brakel raises questions about conventions in the study of mind in three disciplines—psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, and experimental philosophy. She illuminates new understandings of the mind through interdisciplinary challenges to views long-accepted. Here she proposes a view...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life

   Ordinary Genius

   By Gemma Corradi Fiumara

   Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life: Ordinary Genius is an attempt to create a psychoanalytic space for the quest and questions of our everyday creativity. Official creativity is normally applauded to the point of obscuring all other types of creativity, with detrimental consequences for...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. A Handbook of Divorce and Custody

   Forensic, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives

   Edited by Linda Gunsberg, Paul Hymowitz

   The Handbook of Divorce and Custody brings together mental health professionals and forensic specialists dedicated to working in the legal arena with families in crisis. Section I provides the individual perspectives of experienced clinicians, all of whom share a psychodynamic and...

   Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)

   Edited by Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   Originally published in 1973 the editors of this book collected together those studies which had been considered at the time to yield the best evidence in support of Freudian theory, and found on close examination that they failed to provide any such proof. Each paper is printed in full and is...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Paediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

   Through counter-transference to case management

   By Adrian Sutton

   How do children and parents shape clinical practice? How can clinicians learn from the impact of their patients upon them? How do we recognise if health care practices are adversely affecting health care? Children's health problems can place enormous strain on both children and their families....

   Published April 22nd 2013 by Routledge
7. Semantic Polarities and Psychopathologies in the Family

   Permitted and Forbidden Stories

   By Valeria Ugazio

   The gap between psychotherapeutic practice and clinical theory is ever widening. Therapists still don’t know what role interpersonal relations play in the development of the most common psychopathologies. Valeria Ugazio bridges this gap by examining phobias, obsessive-compulsions, eating disorders,...

   Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
8. Trauma and the Soul

   A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption

   By Donald Kalsched

   In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)—this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes, including...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
9. Supervision in Psychoanalysis

   The São Paulo Seminars

   By Antonino Ferro

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   This book originates from a series of clinical supervisions that were held at the Sao Paulo Institute of Psychoanalysis by Antonino Ferro. Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars reproduces the dialogues in the seminars that followed these supervisions in their entirety. The...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals)

    Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind

    By Meg Harris Williams, Margot Waddell

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    Literature is recognised as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of western culture and moved away from its original medical–scientific context. Originally...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge