New Library of Psychoanalysis
About the Book Series
The New Library of Psychoanalysis is published by Routledge Mental Health in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.
Its purpose is to facilitate a greater and more widespread appreciation of psychoanalysis and to provide a forum for increasing mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and those in other disciplines. The series also aims to make some of the work of continental and other non-English speaking analysts more readily available to English-speaking readers, and to increase the interchange of ideas between British and American analysts.
The New Library of Psychoanalysis published its first book in 1987 under the editorship of David Tuckett, later followed by Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Susan Budd and Dana Birksted-Breen. A considerable number of Associate Editors and readers have assisted the editors.
Under the guidance of Foreign Rights Editors, a considerable number of the New Library books have been published abroad, particularly in Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Peru, Spain and Japan.
The aim of the New Library of Psychoanalysis is to maintain the high level of scholarship of the previous series, to provide a forum for increasing understanding between psychoanalysis and other disciplines and to increase the interest of the general book-reading public in psychoanalysis.
The New Library of Psychoanalysis also aims to help the various schools of psychoanalysis to better understand each other. It has published books representing all three schools of thought in British psychoanalysis, including a particularly important work edited by Pearl King and Riccardo Steiner, expounding the intellectual and organisational controversies that developed in the British psychoanalytical Society between Kleinian, Viennese and 'middle group' analysts during the Second World War.
The New Library of Psychoanalysis has also translated and published several books by Continental psychoanalysts, and it plans in the future to continue the policy of publishing books that express as clearly as possible a variety of psychoanalytic points of view.
Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of a Psychoanalyst
1st Edition
By Marta Badoni
December 23, 2025
Taking Oneself Playfully is a fascinating journey into the life and work of Marta Badoni, a highly respected adult and child training analyst in Italy and France. The book is mainly formed of a collection of essays written in different moments of her life, skilfully woven together to recount Badoni...
The Hour of Birth: Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Civitarese
October 20, 2025
To explore the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and contemporary visual artists upon each other, this volume examines the aesthetics of the sublime as an allegory for psychic birth. Through the lens of a radically intersubjective psychoanalytic theory, Civitarese reinvents the Freudian notion of ...
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Ignes Sodre, Priscilla Roth, Tomasz Fortuna
October 16, 2025
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis offers an overview and exploration of Priscilla Roth’s unique contribution to psychoanalysis over the course of her long and distinguished career. This book takes the reader on a journey through psychoanalytic clinical practice and the ...
The Limits of Interpretation: Essays on Bion and Field Theory
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Civitarese
June 30, 2025
The Limits of Interpretation opens a window onto unexplored dimensions of Wilfred Bion’s thought, presenting essays that illuminate both familiar and lesser‑known facets of his work. It guides readers through complex notions such as visible‑invisible hallucinations, bizarre objects, and a radical ...
Developmental Ruptures: The psychoanalysis of breakdown and defensive solutions
1st Edition
By Anna Maria Nicolò
February 29, 2024
This book questions the diagnostic categories applied to adolescents from a developmental viewpoint, putting forth an alternative perspective for assessment that considers prognostic and risk indicators. Going beyond the classification of adult psychopathology, Anna Maria Nicolò presents a ...
New Tools for Psychoanalysis: Clinical Investigation and Psychoanalytic Training in the Working Parties
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruggero Levy, Bernard Reith, Agustina Fernández, Leopoldo Bleger, Nancy Kulish, Marie G. Rudden, Inés Bayona
February 06, 2024
Bringing together the findings from psychoanalysts across the globe, this book introduces and describes the research practices utilised by the Working Parties that were created by the European Psychoanalytical Federation and later supported by the International Psychoanalytical Association. The ...
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective
1st Edition
By David M. Black
November 01, 2023
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional psychoanalytic thinking to recognise the foundational character of ethical values. In recent years, ...
Finding a Way to the Child: Selected Clinical Papers 1983-2021
1st Edition
By Margaret Rustin, Kate Stratton, Simon Cregeen
December 30, 2022
Margaret Rustin’s writing is characterised not only by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her imaginative sensitivity to the emotional lives of children and young people, the depth of her understanding, and her original insights into the complexities of child and adolescent psychotherapy....
W.R. Bion as Clinician: Steering Between Concept and Practice
1st Edition
By R. D. Hinshelwood
December 29, 2022
Underpinned by rigorous close readings of his oeuvre, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the development, practice and evolution of Wilfred Bion’s clinical psychoanalytic work. Starting with the significance of Kant during Bion’s years as a student, the author traces the key influences on...
On Being One's Self: Clinical Explorations in Identity from John Steiner's Workshop
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Numa
September 05, 2022
On Being One’s Self emerges from discussions in John Steiner’s Workshop and investigates the meanings of self and identity, including the many ways in which the development of personal identity can be subverted, interrogating what can facilitate the development of a reasonably stable identity. The ...
Playing at Work: Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on Technique
1st Edition
By Vincenzo Bonaminio
May 26, 2022
Playing at Work offers a thorough guide to the innovative psychoanalytic practices of Vincenzo Bonaminio, as he draws on the work of Winnicott, Bollas, and Tustin to demonstrate an effective method for working with adults, adolescents, and children in clinical settings. Using several clinical ...
Birth to Psychic Life
1st Edition
By Albert Ciccone, Marc Lhopital
March 31, 2022
Based on rich clinical experience and on theory from numerous psychoanalytical works, this book explores and analyzes the emergence and development of the psychic life. Birth to Psychic Life explores the genesis of the psychic apparatus, reconstructs the development of subjectivity, with its ups ...