Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
Christopher Bollas · Routledge · 1987
What is known but has never been thought. The most influential British book of its decade.
John Bowlby · Pimlico · 1969
Attachment placed on an ethological and evolutionary footing, against the analytic orthodoxy of the day.
John Bowlby · Pimlico · 1973
Anxiety and anger as responses to threatened separation rather than as pathology.
Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, Mary C. Blehar, Everett Waters, Sally Wall · Psychology Press · 1978
The empirical work that gave attachment its classifications and its research programme.
John Bowlby · Pimlico · 1980
Mourning, and the difference between grief that completes and grief that cannot.
John Bowlby · Routledge · 1988
Bowlby writing directly about what attachment means in the consulting room.
Peter Fonagy, Gyorgy Gergely, Elliot Jurist, Mary Target · Routledge · 2002
Mentalization set out in full. The bridge between attachment research and analytic practice.
Jacques Lacan · W. W. Norton · 1966
Difficult by design. The Fink translation is the one to read.
Jean Laplanche, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis · Routledge · 1967
Not a dictionary so much as an argument about what each Freudian term actually carries.
Jacques Lacan · W. W. Norton · 1973
The unconscious, repetition, transference and drive. The single most cited seminar.