Freud Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

   One Hundred Years After 'Little Hans'

   Edited by Karen Baker, Jerrold Brandell

   Since Freud’s publication of 'Little Hans', advances in psychoanalytic technique and theory have transformed our clinical work with children. Individuals including Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott have influenced psychoanalytic play therapy and broadened the scope of practice with...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China

   China’s Freudian Slip

   Edited by Tao Jiang, Philip J. Ivanhoe

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Although Freud makes only occasional, brief references to China and Chinese culture in his works, for almost a hundred years many leading Chinese intellectuals have studied and appropriated various Freudian theories. However, whilst some features of Freud’s views have been warmly embraced from the...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. What Is Psychoanalysis?

   100 Years after Freud's 'Secret Committee'

   By Barnaby B Barratt

   In a radically powerful interpretation of the human condition, this book redefines the discipline of psychoanalysis by examining its fundamental assumptions about the unconscious mind, the nature of personal history, our sexualities, and the significance of the "Oedipus Complex". With striking...

   Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Memory, Myth, and Seduction

   Unconscious Fantasy and the Interpretive Process

   By Jean-Georges Schimek

   Edited by Deborah L. Browning

   Series: Psychological Issues

   Memory, Myth, and Seduction reveals the development and evolution of Jean-Georges Schimek's thinking on unconscious fantasy and the interpretive process derived from a close reading of Freud as well as contemporary psychoanalysis. Contributing richly to North American psychoanalytic thought,...

   Published January 9th 2011 by Routledge
6. Sigmund Freud

   2nd Edition

   By Pamela Thurschwell

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   The work of Sigmund Freud has penetrated almost every area of literary theory and cultural studies, as well as contemporary culture. Pamela Thurschwell explains and contextualises psychoanalytic theory and its meaning for modern thinking. This updated second edition explores developments and...

   Published April 26th 2009 by Routledge
7. Freud

   A Modern Reader

   Edited by Rosine Jozef Perelberg

   This long-awaited text makes accessible the ideas of one of the most important thinkers of our time, as well as indicating how Freud's theories are put into clinical practice today. The collection of papers has been written by some of the most eminent psychoanalysts, who have made original...

   Published November 29th 2005 by Routledge
8. Reading Freud

   A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings

   By Jean-Michel Quinodoz

   Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series

   Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding...

   Published July 13th 2005 by Routledge
9. Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid

   Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology

   By Dany Nobus, Malcolm Quinn

   Why is stupidity sublime? What is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics? Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating evaluation of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis. Adopting a Lacanian framework,...

   Published June 22nd 2005 by Routledge
10. The Freud Wars

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

    By Lavinia Gomez

    The Freud Wars offers a comprehensive introduction to the crucial question of the justification of psychoanalysis. Part I examines three powerful critiques of psychoanalysis in the context of a recent controversy about its nature and legitimacy: is it a bankrupt science, an innovative science, or...

    Published May 18th 2005 by Routledge