Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Bruce Fink · Harvard University Press · 1997
Publisher pageA clinician-focused account of Lacanian theory and technique.
A concise, single-author student reference to psychoanalytic terms.
A General Selection from the Works of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, John Rickman · The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis · 1937
The classic pre-war one-volume Freud selection, co-published by the Institute of Psycho-Analysis.
Psychoanalytic perspectives on the adolescent process.
An alphabetical guide to Lacan's key terms, tracing each concept across his career.
Builds secure classrooms using attachment theory and social neuroscience.
A short book on attention: what we seek, give and withhold.
Presents the Wheel of Awareness meditation and the science of presence.
A biography of Freud's first fifty years, focused on the making of the psychoanalyst.
On belief, imagination and the third position; a modern classic.
Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis
Glen Owens Gabbard, Eva Papamatheaki Lester · American Psychiatric Association Publishing · 1995
Publisher pageA classic clinical study of the analytic frame and how boundaries are crossed.
Reframes adolescence as creative brain remodeling rather than just risk.
Reflective essays on the missing or imagined brother and absence in psychic life.
On fratricidal hatred via Cain and Abel: envy, rivalry and the roots of violence.
A single-author comprehensive dictionary of psychoanalytic terms.
Studies in Lacanian theory and practice.
Darwin and Freud on transience, loss and mortality as ways of telling life and death stories.
An introduction to Daseinsanalysis, the existential-phenomenological approach to therapy.
Papers on enactment and the analyst's contribution to the transference.
Segal's synthesis of Kleinian ideas on dreams, phantasy, symbolism and creativity.