Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
An accessible collection linking dream theory and thinking.
Psychoanalytic essays on inhibition, hierarchy and the difficulty of equality.
Key essays introducing Laplanche's theory of the enigmatic message and the other.
Executive Functioning and Psychotherapy
Louis Cozolino, Chloe Drulis, Carly Trissler · W. W. Norton · 2025
Publisher pageApplies the neuroscience of executive function to clinical psychotherapy.
Cottet's classic on the desire of the analyst.
Late essays consolidating Laplanche's enlarged Freudian sexual and seduction theory.
Essays reading images, art and everyday life through psychoanalysis.
Frontiers in Psychoanalysis
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis · Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis · 1977
Essays on dreams, negation and psychic pain from a leading French analyst-editor.
Gabbard's Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Glen Owens Gabbard · American Psychiatric Publishing · 2008
Publisher pageAn edited survey of the major psychotherapies used across psychiatric practice.
Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders
Glen Owens Gabbard · American Psychiatric Publishing · 1989
Publisher pageA large edited reference surveying evidence-based treatments across psychiatric disorders.
Asks what sanity might positively mean, through literature and psychoanalysis.
A psychoanalytic and cultural meditation on what we do with our hands.
An edited clinical volume linking attachment, trauma and the brain.
A meditation on escape and escapology, from Houdini to the consulting room.
Clinical essays illustrating Lacanian interpretation in practice.
An edited volume on contemporary hysteria.
A psychoanalytic meditation on betrayal in love and whether forgiveness is possible.
Collected essays on reading, writers and their kinship with psychoanalysis.
International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
Alain de Mijolla · Macmillan Reference USA · 2002
Publisher pageA three-volume English reference with about 1,600 entries on concepts, figures and movements.
Two linked essays on intimacy, sex and self-relinquishment.