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].
'Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis' and 'Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case' (2 Volume Set)
1st Edition
By Maria Pierri
January 10, 2023
Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case uses newly discovered primary sources to investigate one of Sigmund Freud’s most mysterious clinical experiences, the Forsyth case. Maria Pierri begins with a preliminary illustration of the case, its historical context, and how it connects to Freud’s interests in...
Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference
1st Edition
By Maria Pierri
November 30, 2022
Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis traces the origins of key psychoanalytic ideas back to their roots in hypnosis and the occult. Maria Pierri follows Freud’s early interest in "thought-transmission," now known as telepathy. Freud’s private investigations led to discussions with other ...
Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case: Coincidences and Thought-Transmission in Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Maria Pierri
November 30, 2022
Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case uses newly discovered primary sources to investigate one of Sigmund Freud’s most mysterious clinical experiences, the Forsyth case. The book details Pierri’s attempts to recover the lost original case notes, which are published here for the first time, to identify...
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890–1940: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Caroline Zilboorg
September 17, 2021
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890–1940: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis is the first volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the period from his birth as a Jew in Tsarist Russia to his prominence as a New ...
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890–1959: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis and Mind, Medicine, and Man 2 volume set
1st Edition
By Caroline Zilboorg
September 07, 2021
The two-volume Life of Gregory Zilboorg is a meticulously researched biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the period from his birth as a Jew in Tsarist Russia to his prominence as a New York psychoanalyst on the eve of the Second World War. Drawing on ...
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1940–1959: Mind, Medicine, and Man
1st Edition
By Caroline Zilboorg
September 07, 2021
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1940–1959: Mind, Medicine, and Man is the second volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the impact of the Second World War on his work and thinking as well as his divorce, remarriage,...
The Dreams of Mabel Dodge: Diary of an Analysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe
1st Edition
By Patricia Everett
April 20, 2021
In 1916, salon host Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe in New York, recording 142 dreams during her six-month treatment. Her dreams, as well as Jelliffe’s handwritten notes from her analytic sessions, provide an unusual and virtually unprecedented access to one woman’s dream...
Reading Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: From Pleasure to the Object
1st Edition
By Philippe Van Haute, Herman Westerink
November 30, 2020
Sigmund Freud’s 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an "unknown" text. In this book Freud’s 1905 theory of sexuality is reconstructed in its historical context, its systematic outline, and its actual relevance. This...
Reading Freud’s Patients: Memoir, Narrative and the Analysand
1st Edition
By Anat Tzur Mahalel
June 10, 2020
Winner of the 2021 ABAPsa Book Prize Award! What would the story of analysis look like if it were told through the eyes of the analysand? How would the patient write and present the analytic experience? How would the narrative as written by the analysand differ from the analytic narrative commonly ...
Rediscovering Pierre Janet: Trauma, Dissociation, and a New Context for Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Giuseppe Craparo, Francesca Ortu, Onno van der Hart
April 08, 2019
Rediscovering Pierre Janet explores the legacy left by the pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist (1859–1947), from the relationship of between Janet and Freud, to the influence of his dissociation theory on contemporary psychotraumatology. Divided into three parts, the ...
Freud/Tiffany: Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the ‘Best Possible School’
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Danto, Alexandra Steiner-Strauss
December 13, 2018
With over 100 archival photographs and nine original, wide-ranging essays, Freud/Tiffany brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education. Out of the cultural and political ferment of inter-war Vienna emerged the Hietzing School, founded in the 1920s by Anna Freud, the ...
Freud at Work: On the History of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice, with an Analysis of Freud's Patient Record Books
1st Edition
By Ulrike May
June 27, 2018
Presenting a new frame of reference, the author argues that Freud's theories are not the result of his genius alone but were developed in exchange with colleagues and students, which is not always apparent at first glance. Replete with examples, the author reconstructs who the theories were ...