Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
Psychiatry and the Cinema
Krin Gabbard, Glen Owens Gabbard · American Psychiatric Press · 1987
Publisher pageHow film has portrayed analysts and psychiatrists, and how psychoanalysis has read film. A film scholar and an analyst writing together.
Landmark Kleinian papers on total transference and the analytic present moment.
A highly cited account of psychic retreats as defensive mental states.
How to build a working psychodynamic understanding of a patient beyond diagnosis.
Psychoanalysis read through Shakespeare.
A practical guide to the stance and craft of psychoanalytic therapy.
On the relationship, ethics and craft of supervising psychoanalytic clinicians.
Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, PDM-2
Vittorio Lingiardi, Nancy McWilliams · Guilford Press · 2017
Publisher pageA diagnostic framework built on personality, mental functioning and subjective experience, offered as a counterpart to the DSM.
Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice
Glen Owens Gabbard · American Psychiatric Publishing · 1990
Publisher pageMaps psychodynamic theory onto the major psychiatric disorders.
A guided introduction to Anna Freud's writings and child-analytic legacy.
A clear introduction to Bion's difficult body of work.
Reading French Psychoanalysis
Dana Birksted-Breen, Sara Flanders, Alain Gibeault · Routledge · 2010
Publisher pageAn anthology with commentary opening up the French tradition to English readers.
A chronological guided tour through Freud's major texts.
Reading Italian Psychoanalysis
Franco Borgogno, Alberto Luchetti, Luisa Marino Coe · Routledge · 2016
Publisher pageAn anthology with commentary opening up the Italian tradition to English readers.
An accessible critical introduction to Melanie Klein's writing.
Key Winnicott papers with commentary introducing his clinical thought.
Shakespeare read alongside Freud, co-authored with Stephen Greenblatt.
Morel on sexuation and sexual difference.
Essays on the unintended and the tangential in psychoanalysis and living.
An accessible thematic volume on perinatal loss.