Psychoanalysis

1. Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience

   Doris Brothers

   Psychological examination of the issues of trust and betrayal in the psychotherapeutic experience.
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2. Symptom Analysis: A Method of Brief Therapy

   M. Gerald Edelstien

   Demonstrates that a minor variation of Freud's trauma theory, known as brief therapy, can be seen as the core of all major modern therapies, from behaviour therapy to psychoanalysis.More

3. The Intimate Edge: Extending the Reach of Psychoanalytic Interaction

   Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg

   From an interactive perspective, the author proposes a "theory of therapeutic action", focusing on what is healing in psychoanalysis, whether or not it evolves from "technique".More

4. The Life Cycle Completed

   Erik H. Erikson, Joan M. Erikson

   Extended Version

   "This book will last and last, because it contains the wisdom of two wonderfully knowing observers of our human destiny."—Robert ColesMore

5. The Erik Erikson Reader

   Erik H. Erikson, Robert Coles

   "This volume, ably assembled and introduced by Robert Coles, presents the Essential Erikson."—Howard GardnerMore

6. Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

   Erik H. Erikson

   In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.More

7. Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History

   Erik H. Erikson

   In this psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the prominent figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther.More

8. Childhood and Society

   Erik H. Erikson

   The landmark work on the social significance of childhood.More

9. Identity: Youth and Crisis

   Erik H. Erikson

   Identity: Youth and Crisis collects Erik H. Erikson's major essays on topics originating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis.More

10. Vital Involvement in Old Age

    Erik H. Erikson, Joan M. Erikson, Helen Q. Kivnick

    Erikson's now-famous concept of the life cycle delineates eight stages of psychological development through which each of us progresses.More

11. The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis

    Otto Fenichel, Leo Rangell

    A perennially best-selling and influential psychoanalytic work.More

12. Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners

    Bruce Fink

    An introduction to psychoanalytic technique from a Lacanian perspective.More

13. The Freud Reader

    Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay

    The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.More

14. Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay

    The Standard Edition

    In 1915 at the University of Vienna 60-year-old Sigmund Freud delivered these lectures on psychoanalysis, pointing to the interplay of unconscious and conscious forces within individual psyches.More

15. Civilization and Its Discontents

    Sigmund Freud, Christopher Hitchens, James Strachey, Et Al.

    Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.More