Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
The maternal function in psychoanalysis: care, desire, and what a mother transmits.
How attachment and the social brain shape human bonds.
Reclaims mourning and melancholia against the modern label of depression.
The New Dictionary of Kleinian Thought
Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Jane Milton, Penelope Garvey, Cyril Couve, Deborah Steiner · Routledge · 2011
Publisher pageThe rewritten successor to Hinshelwood, mapping Kleinian concepts and post-Kleinian developments.
A reading of Gethsemane on solitude, betrayal and abandonment.
The Oedipus Complex Today
John Steiner, Ronald Britton, Michael Feldman, Edna O'Shaughnessy · Routledge · 1989
Publisher pageEssays reworking the Oedipus complex for modern clinical practice.
Adam Phillips's selection from the new Penguin Freud translations, with an introduction.
A concise clinician reference distilling the brain science most relevant to practice.
Argues that consistent parental presence builds secure attachment.
The Psychology of the Sopranos
Glen Owens Gabbard · Basic Books · 2002
An applied psychoanalytic reading of the HBO series and its characters.
Applies attachment and brain science to the classroom.
Reads the figure of the son from Oedipus to the prodigal son to rethink inheritance.
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey · The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis · 1953
The definitive 24-volume English translation of Freud's complete works.
The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis
Ralph Romeo Greenson · International Universities Press · 1967
Publisher pageA practical, example-rich account of interpretation and transference.
How children search for a father figure in an age when paternal authority has collapsed.
On how analysts are formed in the Lacanian tradition.
The Unconscious and the Id
Jean Laplanche · Rebus Press · 1981
Volume IV of Laplanche's Problematiques lectures, on the unconscious and Freud's id.
Brain-science strategies to help children integrate emotion and logic.
Helps parents foster a receptive state of courage, curiosity and resilience.
Essays on temporality, memory and the unconscious.