Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
A general-reader guide drawing on nature and neuroscience for lifelong health.
Lacanian clinical perspectives on autism.
A focused volume on a core Kleinian and British concept.
Essays reconsidering obedience, prohibition and the pleasures that are not forbidden.
A Lacanian account of sex and gender.
A psychoanalytic study of sexuality and phantasy.
Rethinks psychosis and quiet madness through Lacanian clinical structures.
A psychoanalytic account of sleep, insomnia and the sleepless mind.
Explores the psychological dimensions of physical illness and the mind-body link.
Psychoanalytic essays on love, desire and the positions men and women take up in it.
A neuroscientific account of why psychotherapy heals.
Short lyrical essays on memory, dreams and the spaces between waking and sleep.
A concise critical study of D. W. Winnicott's life and thought.
Mark Solms argues that neuroscience now vindicates Freud, and that the talking cure, rather than medication, is what actually heals the mind.
Eighty five short lessons on the craft of therapy, written by an existential psychiatrist looking back over a working lifetime.
Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy
Mick Cooper, John McLeod · SAGE Publications · 2011
Publisher pageThe founding text of the pluralistic approach: different clients need different things at different times, so goals and methods are negotiated rather than prescribed.
Where the talking cure gets its name. Anna O., Emmy von N., and the first account of symptom as meaning.
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud · Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics) · 1900
Publisher pageThe founding text. Establishes the dream as a route to unconscious wish, and with it the method.
Slips, forgettings and bungled actions. The most accessible demonstration that the unconscious is ordinary.
Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Dora)
Sigmund Freud · Penguin Classics · 1905
The case that broke off, and the one Freud learned most from about transference.