History of Psychoanalysis
About the Book Series
This series seeks to present outstanding new books that illuminate any aspect of the history of psychoanalysis from its earliest days to the present, and to reintroduce classic texts to contemporary readers.
To find out how to submit a proposal for this series, please contact Peter L. Rudnytsky at [email protected], or Susannah Frearson at [email protected].
Freud Against God: The Development of Sigmund Freud’s Atheism
1st Edition
By Christfried Toegel
January 01, 2026
Freud Against God traces the development of Freud's atheism, from his youth through to The Man Moses and the Monotheistic Religion, published in 1939. Christfried Toegel takes a largely chronological approach, tracing how biographical developments in Freud's life and political events gradually led ...
Sigmund Freud on the Way to Paris, 1873-1885: Foundations of Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Giosuè Ghisalberti
December 22, 2025
Sigmund Freud on the Way to Paris, 1873-1885 poses a question: where does psychoanalysis begin? Giosuè Ghisalberti considers how Freud’s own development – both in terms of his formal education and his personal growth – influenced the development of psychoanalysis. Rather than a beginning to ...
Sigmund Freud’s Inner Divisions: Personal and Theoretical
1st Edition
By Ken Fuchsman
December 22, 2025
Sigmund Freud’s Inner Divisions shows how the limits of Freud’s theory are linked to his inner conflicts, particularly those relating to his father. Ken Fuchsman undertakes a close reading of how what Freud wrote during self-analysis reflected his inner personal divisions. The book explores how ...
The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930-1980
1st Edition
By Lizaveta van Munsteren
August 22, 2025
This book considers the changing fortunes of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia from 1930 to 1980. Approaching social history in a psychoanalytic key, Lizaveta van Munsteren argues that the growing split between official and informal languages of the time produced multiple strategies to keep alive the...
The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By David James Fisher
November 08, 2024
The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis. The chapters included in this book span the course of David James Fisher’s career. They contextualize significant cases from the recent history of ...
Freud’s British Family: Reclaiming Lost Lives in Manchester and London
1st Edition
By Roger Willoughby
October 29, 2024
Freud’s British Family presents ground-breaking research into the lives of the British branch of the Freud family, their connections to the founder of psychoanalysis, and into Freud’s relationship to Britain. Documenting the complex relationships the elder Freud brothers had with their much younger...
The Marquis de Puységur, Artificial Somnambulism, and the Discovery of the Unconscious Mind: Memoirs to Serve the History and Establishment of Animal Magnetism
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Crabtree, Sarah Osei-Bonsu
September 06, 2024
The Marquis de Puységur, Artificial Somnambulism, and the Discovery of the Unconscious Mind presents the first full English translation of a foundational text in the history of psychodynamic thinking, and provides a contextual explanation of its contemporary significance. Written by Puységur in ...
Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939: A Biographical Compendium
1st Edition
By Christfried Toegel
May 02, 2024
Winner of the 2024 Gradiva® Award for Best Book! Sigmund Freud, 1856–1939 draws on a wide range of primary sources to present all the datable events that took place in Sigmund Freud’s life, shining new light on his day-to-day experiences. Christfried Toegel’s work provides details and context for ...
Michael Balint and his World: The Budapest Years
1st Edition
Edited
By Judit Szekacs-Weisz, Raluca Soreanu, Ivan Ward
December 01, 2023
This fascinating collection explores the life of renowned psychoanalyst Michael Balint in his native Budapest. With a Balint revival in mind, Michael Balint and his World: The Budapest Years brings together the work of psychoanalysts, social thinkers, historians, literary scholars, artists and ...
Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka: A Case of Homosexuality in a Woman in Modern Vienna
1st Edition
By Michal Shapira
November 27, 2023
Winner of the Radomír Luža Prize, German Studies Association and The American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, 2024 Chosen for the George L. Mosse Annual Lecture in the History of Gender and Sexuality, 2024 This book provides a historical analysis of one of Sigmund Freud’...
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe: Narrative Assemblages of Self-Analysis, Life Writing, and Fiction
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Sobolewska
October 13, 2023
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literature, and the visual arts of the late 1800s and early 1900s in Central Europe. Agnieszka Sobolewska addresses the issue of theories and practices of ...
A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis: Erasing Trauma
1st Edition
By Carlo Bonomi
February 20, 2023
A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis returns us to the birth of psychoanalysis and the trauma of castration that is its umbilicus. The story told in this book centers on the genital mutilation endured in her childhood by Emma Eckstein, Freud’s most important patient in his abandonment of ...