- The Anatomy of Prejudices
- Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi
- In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst Sándor Ferenczi has amassed an influential following within the psychoanalytic community. In a sequence of short, condensed entries, Ferenczi's diary records self-critical reflections on conventional theory--as well as criticisms of his own experiments with technique--and his obstinate struggle to divest himself and psychoanalysis of professional hypocrisy.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback
- A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
- Arguably the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, and deeply influential in many fields, Jacques Lacan often seems opaque to those he most wanted to reach. These are the readers Bruce Fink addresses in this clear and practical account of Lacan's highly original approach to therapy. Written by a clinician for clinicians, Fink's introduction is an invaluable guide to Lacanian psychoanalysis, how it's done, and how it differs from other forms of therapy. While elucidating many of Lacan's theoretical notions, the book does so from the perspective of the practitioner faced with the pressing questions of diagnosis, which therapeutic stance to adopt, how to involve the patient, and how to bring about change.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Coming to Life
- Hardcover
- The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939
- Here are nearly 700 hundred previously unpublished letters, postcards, and telegrams representing the three-decade correspondence between Freud and his admiring younger colleague, Ernest Jones, who also became his biographer and a principal player in the development of psychoanalysis in England and the United States.
- Paperback 1995 / Hardcover
- The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Volume 1, 1908-1914
- Volume 1 of the three-volume Freud-Ferenczi correspondence closes with Freud's letter from Vienna, dated June 28, 1914, to his younger colleague in Budapest: "I am writing under the impression of the surprising murder in Sarajevo, the consequences of which cannot be foreseen." "Now," he continues in a more familiar vein, "to our affairs!" The nation-shattering events of World War I form a somber canvas for "our affairs" and the exchanges of the two correspondents in volume 2 (July 1914 through December 1919). Uncertainty pervades these letters: Will Ferenczi be called up? Will food and fuel--and cigar--shortages continue? Will Freud's three enlisted sons and son-in-law come through intact? And, will Freud's "problem-child," psychoanalysis, survive the war?
- Hardcover
- The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Volume 2, 1914-1919
- The nation-shattering events of World War I form a somber canvas for the exchanges of the two correspondents in Volume 2 (July 1914 through December 1919). Uncertainty pervades these letters: Will Ferenczi be called up? Will food and fuel-and cigar-shortages continue? Will Freud's three enlisted sons and son-in-law come through the war intact? And will Freud's "problem-child," psychoanalysis, survive?
- Hardcover 1996
- The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Volume 3, 1920-1933
- This third and final volume of the correspondence between the founder of psychoanalysis and one of his most colorful disciples brings to a close Sándor Ferenczi's life and the story of one of the most important friendships in the history of psychoanalysis. The controversies between Freud and Ferenczi continue to this day, as psychoanalysts reassess Ferenczi's innovations, and increasingly challenge the allegations of mental illness leveled against him after his death by Freud and Ernest Jones.
- Hardcover 2000
- Dispatches from the Freud Wars
- The noted historian and philosopher of science John Forrester raises a provocative point: no matter how you feel about Freud, you can't escape the influence of his theories. Through questions central to our century's ways of thinking, Forrester explores dreams, history, ethics, political theory, and psychoanalysis as a scientific movement. By taking nothing for granted and leaving no cliché of psychobabble--theoretical or popular--unturned, Forrester gives us a sense of the ethical surprises and epistemological riddles that a century of tumultuous psychoanalytical debate has often obscured.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Feminism and Its Discontents
- With Sigmund Freud notoriously flummoxed about what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. But in this surprising history, Mari Jo Buhle reveals that the twentieth century's two great theories of liberation actually had a great deal to tell each other. Feminism and Its Discontents brings together far-flung intellectual tendencies rarely seen in intimate relation to each other-and shows us a new way of seeing both.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Freud, Biologist of the Mind
- In this monumental intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway demonstrates that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a biologist of the mind; and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology.
- Paperback
- From Freud's Consulting Room
- Hardcover 1998
- Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight
- Felman elucidates the power and originality of Lacan's work. She brilliantly analyzes Lacan's investigation of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. By focusing on Lacan's singular way of making Freud's thought new again--and of thus enabling us to participate in the very moment of intellectual struggle and insight--Felman shows how this moment of illumination has become crucial to contemporary thinking and has redefined insight as such.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback
- James Jackson Putnam and Psychoanalysis
- It is intriguing to discover how these men, long before formal training centers were established, educated each other by mail and learned by letters how to handle psychoanalytic problems never recognized or encountered before. Theory was debated as well, and the 89 letters between Putnam and Freud indicate how Freud's increasingly disillusioned stoicism clashed with Putnam's New England optimism and formed the basis for a significant dialogue on the nature of man, ethics, and the psychoanalytic mission.
- Hardcover 1971
- The Juridical Unconscious
This book offers a groundbreaking account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice. Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, as well as the trials of O. J. Simpson and Adolf Eichmann, Shoshana Felman argues that the adjudication of collective traumas in the twentieth century transformed both culture and law. This transformation took place through legal cases that put history itself on trial, and that provided a stage for the expression of the persecuted--the historically "expressionless."
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002
- Lacan
- Lacan is a uniquely complex writer and the originator of an especially unsettling view of the human subject. Bowie traces the development of Lacan's ideas over the fifty-year span of his writing and teaching career. The primary focus is on the fascinating mutations in Lacan's interpretation of Freud.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881
- Paperback / Hardcover
- The Living Eye
- Hardcover 1989
- Making Contact
- Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology to studies ofclinical method and the psychiatric schools, Havens has been working toward a general theory of therapy. It often seems that twentieth-century psychiatry, sect-ridden, is a Tower of Babel, as Havens once characterized it. This book is the distillation of long years of thought and practice, a bold yet modest attempt to delineate an "integrated psychotherapy."
- Paperback 1988
- Melanie Klein
- Paperback
- Memory Distortion
- Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repression--these and numerous additional topics are explored in this timely collection of essays by eminent scholars in a range of disciplines. This is the first book on memory distortion to unite contributions from cognitive psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, neurobiology, sociology, history, and religious studies.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- On Flirtation
- Is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play, letting us get to know them in different ways, allowing us the fascination of what is unconvincing? This is a book about the possibilities of flirtation, its risks and instructive amusements--about the spaces flirtation opens in the stories we tell ourselves, particularly within the framework of psychoanalysis.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
- In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis--kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates to worrying.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- Open Minded
- Freud is discredited, so we don't have to think about the darker strains of unconscious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders, so we don't have to look too closely at their thinking either. In fact, everywhere we look in contemporary culture, knowingness has taken the place of thought. This book is a spirited assault on that deadening trend, especially as it affects our deepest attempts to understand the human psyche--in philosophy and psychoanalysis. It explodes the widespread notion that we already know the problems and proper methods in these fields and so no longer need to ask crucial questions about the structure of human subjectivity.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- Other Times, Other Realities
- Nearly a century has passed since Freud's theories unleashed a revolution in our understanding of the human psyche. Yet, as Arnold Modell firmly points out, we still do not possess a theory that explains how psychoanalysis works. Other Times, Other Realities provides brilliant insight into this perplexing problem and lays the foundation for a comprehensive theory of psychoanalytic treatment.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1996
- Presenting the Past
- At the core of Presenting the Past is the dramatic case of a woman who during the course of her analysis began to recall scenes of her own childhood sexual abuse. Later, the patient came to believe that the trauma she remembered might have been an emotional violation and that she had composed a memory out of present and past relationships. Using this case and others, Prager explores the nature of memory and its relation to the interpersonal, therapeutic, and cultural worlds in which remembering occurs.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Private Myths
- Rich in symbolic and scientific insight, Private Myths traverses the course of dream interpretation from distant hunter-gatherer times to the present. Anthony Stevens makes the principles of dream interpretation accessible to scientists, the findings of dream science accessible to analysts, and the discoveries of both available to anyone intrigued by the mysteries of dreams and dreaming.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- The Private Self
- In The Private Self, Arnold Modell contributes an interdisciplinary perspective in formulating a theory of the private self. A leading thinker in American psycho-analysis, Modell here studies selfhood by examining variations on the theme of the self in Freud and in the work of object relations theorists, self psychologists, and neuroscientists.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Psycho-Analytic Explorations
- The editors of The Winnicott Trust have assembled into one volume ninety-two works by the brilliant writer, theoretician, and clinician. This fascinating volume includes, among many important topics, critiques of Melanie Klein's ideas and insights into the work of other psychoanalysts, as well as gems of thought on such concepts as play in the analytic situation, the fate of the transitional object, regression in psychoanalysis, and the use of silence in psychotherapy.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- The Psychoanalytic Mind
- Cavell elaborates the view, traceable from Wittgenstein to Davidson, that there is no thought, and thus no meaning, without language, and shows how this concurs with psychoanalytic theory and practice.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Questions for Freud
- Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok develop a new biographical and conceptual approach to psychoanalysis, one that outlines Freud's contradictory theories of mental functioning against the backdrop of his permanent lack of insight into crucial and traumatic aspects of his immediate family's life. This book offers a new way of understanding the flaws and contradictions of Freud's thought without losing sight of its significance.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Radical Hope
- Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, said, "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." In Jonathan Lear's view, Plenty Coups' story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one's culture might collapse? Radical Hope is a deeply moving, philosophical inquiry into a peculiar vulnerability that goes to the heart of the human condition.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Recent Developments in Psychoanalysis
- Paperback
- Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis
- Hardcover 1988
- The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis
- Hardcover
- The Sacred Complex
- This reading of Milton juxtaposes the poet's theology and Freud's account of the Oedipus complex in ways that yield both new understanding of Milton and a model for psychoanalytic interpretation of literature. In a commanding demonstration, Kerrigan delineates how the great epic and the psyche of its author bestow meaning on each other.
- Hardcover 1983
- Subject to Biography
- A practicing psychoanalyst, a distinguished scholar, and the widely-praised biographer of Anna Freud and Hannah Arendt, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl here reflects on the relations between self-knowledge, autobiography, biography, and cultural history. She considers what remains valuable in Sigmund Freud's work, and what areas--theory of character, for instance--must be rethought to be useful for current psychoanalytic work, for feminist studies, and for social theory.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- The Symptom of Beauty
- Pacteau tells us beauty is generic term for an unspecifiable number of disparate experiences. What these experiences are, what they mean, how they manifest themselves as a notion of beauty is the subject of Pacteau's book, an intriguing psychoanalytic study of beauty that looks into the eye of the beholder and into the mind conjuring behind it.
- Paperback 1995 / Hardcover
- Technique of Child Psychoanalysis
- Paperback
- Terrors and Experts
- This book is a chronicle of the all-too-human terror that drives us into the arms of experts, and of how expertise, in the form of psychoanalysis, addresses our fears--in essence, turns our terror into meaning. In a manner characteristically engaging and challenging, charming and maddening, Adam Phillips teases out the complicity between desire and the forbidden, longing and dread.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Trauma and Dreams
- In this volume, Deirdre Barrett brings together the study of dreams and the psychology of trauma. A distinguished group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers--among them Rosalind Cartwright, Robert Lifton, and Oliver Sacks--consider here how trauma shapes dreaming and what the dreaming mind might reveal about trauma.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2001
- Winnicott
- Although he founded no school of his own, 0. W. Winnicott (1896 1971) is now regarded as one of the most influential contributors to psychoanalysis since Freud. In over forty years of clinical practice, he brought unprecedented skill and intuition to the psychoanalysis of children. This critical new work by Adam Phillips presents the best short introduction to the thought and practice of D. W. Winnicott that is currently available.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback
- The Wisdom of the Ego
- One of America's preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us an exhilarating look at how the mind's defenses work. What we see as the mind's trickery, George Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy. What's more, it can reveal the mind at its most creative and mature, soothing and protecting us in the face of unbearable reality.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover