Psychoanalysis Books

New and Published Books

1. The Maternal Lineage

   Identification, Desire and Transgenerational Issues

   Edited by Paola Mariotti

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   Why do women want to have children? How does one ‘learn’ to be a mother? Does having babies have anything to do with sex? At a time when mothers are bombarded by prescriptive and contradicting advice on how to behave with their children, The Maternal Lineage highlights various psychological...

   Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. An Accident of Hope

   The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton

   By Dawn M. Skorczewski

   In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her "confessional" poems dealing...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Silent Past and the Invisible Present

   Memory, Trauma, and Representation in Psychotherapy

   By Paul Renn

   Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series

   Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic and private practice, Paul Renn deftly illustrates the ways in which this research may be used to inform an integrated empirical/hermeneutic model...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

   By Thomas H Ogden

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for the Most Important Paper of the year and the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize winner - an international award for "outstanding achievement as a psychoanalytic clinician, teacher and theoretician". Thomas Ogden is...

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Conundrums

   A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis

   By Jon Mills

   This is the first book of its kind to offer a sustained critique of contemporary psychoanalytic thought favoring relational, postmodern, and intersubjective perspectives, which largely define American psychoanalysis today. Conundrums turns an eye toward the philosophical underpinnings of...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Displacement of Concepts

   Edited by Donald A. Schon

   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 November 28th 2011 by Routledge
7. System and Structure

   Essays in communication and exchange second edition

   Edited by Anthony Wilden

   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 November 28th 2011 by Routledge
8. A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial

   The Mind of Apartheid

   By Derek Hook

   An oft-neglected element of postcolonial thought is the explicitly psychological dimension of many of its foundational texts. This unprecedented volume explores the relation between these two disciplines by treating the work of a variety of anti-colonial authors as serious psychological...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
9. Midlife Transformation in Literature and Film

   Jungian and Eriksonian Perspectives

   By Steven F. Walker

   In this book, Steven F. Walker considers the midlife transition from a Jungian and Eriksonian perspective, by providing vivid and powerful literary and cinematic examples that illustrate the psychological theories in a clear and entertaining way. For C.G. Jung, midlife is a time for personal...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
10. The Importance of Suffering

    The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent

    By James Davies

    In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge