Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
Siegel's signature concept of perceiving one's own and others' minds, with clinical stories.
On the unlived lives we imagine we are missing, and living with frustration.
An aphoristic short book on monogamy, desire and coupledom.
Laplanche's re-grounding of psychoanalysis on the general theory of seduction.
Reframes discipline as teaching, using brain-based, connection-first strategies.
Lacanian perspectives on obsessional neurosis.
Essays on excess and moderation across love, politics and psychoanalysis.
Reads flirtation and staying uncommitted as a serious psychoanalytic stance.
A companion volume on cure and improvement, in and beyond therapy.
Essays on giving up, sacrifice and renunciation.
A history and psychoanalysis of kindness, with historian Barbara Taylor.
Essays finding depth in ordinary states such as boredom, kissing and worrying.
On the wish for transformation and what psychoanalysis makes of wanting to change.
A retrospective anthology of Phillips's own essays.
How parents' reflection on their own attachment shapes how they raise secure children.
Integrates nine developmental personality patterns with interpersonal neurobiology.
A compact reference defining interpersonal neurobiology and its view of the mind.
The baby, the doctor and the psychoanalyst.
Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late
Darian Leader · Faber & Faber · 1997
On love, seduction and the promises we make in the grip of desire.
Essays where literature and psychoanalysis read each other.