Psychoanalysis Books

New and Published Books

1. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth

   By Daniel Merkur

   Series: Theorists of Myth

   This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights....

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Possible Profession

   The Analytic Process of Change

   By Theodore J. Jacobs

   The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change takes a fresh look at the many forms of unconscious communication that take place in the analytic situation. Bringing together two decades of the author’s previous writing as well as a considerable amount of new material, this book addresses a...

   Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge
3. Time and Timelessness

   Temporality in the theory of Carl Jung

   By Angeliki Yiassemides

   Series: Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies

   Time and Timelessness examines the development of Jung's understanding of time throughout his opus, and the ways in which this concept has affected key elements of his work. In this book Yiassemides suggests that temporality plays an important role in many of Jung's central ideas, and is closely...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
4. Transference and Countertransference Today

   Edited by Robert Oelsner

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   Why has Heinrich Racker’s original work on transference and countertransference proven so valuable? With a passionate concern for the field created by the meeting of analyst and patient, and an abiding interest in the central importance of transference and countertransference in analytic practice,...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
5. Mending the World

   Social Healing Interventions by Gestalt Practitioners Worldwide

   Edited by Joseph Melnick

   Published June 12th 2013 by Gestalt Press
6. Attention and Interpretation

   A scientific approach to insight in psycho-analysis and groups

   Edited by W. R. Bion

   Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Greek Culture and the Ego

   A psycho-analytic survey of an aspect of Greek civilization and of art

   Edited by Adrian Stokes

   Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. 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 23rd 2013 by Routledge
9. 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
10. 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