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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.

128 Series Titles


Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change Selected Papers of Betty Joseph

Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers of Betty Joseph

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Feldman, Elizabeth Bott Spillius
September 27, 1989

Betty Joseph's work has become an outstanding influence in the development and theory of psychoanalytic technique in the Kleinian tradition. This collection of her most important papers examines the development of her thought and shows why a crucial part of her theory and practice is concerned with...

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2: Mainly Practice Developments in Theory and Practice

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2: Mainly Practice: Developments in Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Elizabeth Bott Spillius
January 11, 1989

Although both Kleinian psychoanalysts and their critics take it for granted that there is a therapeutic technique distinctive to the Kleinian approach, comparatively little has been written about what it is. In Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2, Elizabeth Bott Spillius brings together classic and new ...

Thinking, Feeling, and Being

Thinking, Feeling, and Being

1st Edition

By Ignacio Matte-Blanco
September 15, 1988

Ignacio Matte-Blanco has made one of the most original contributions to psychoanalysis since Freud. In this book, which includes an introductory chapter to his work by Eric Rayner and David Tuckett, he develops his conceptualization of the Freudian unconscious in terms of logic and mathematics, ...

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1: Mainly Theory Developments in Theory and Practice

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1: Mainly Theory: Developments in Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Elizabeth Bott Spillius
September 07, 1988

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1 is the first of two volumes of collected essays devoted to developments in psychoanalysis based on the work of Melanie Klein. The papers are arranged into four groups: the analysis of psychotic patients, projective identification, on thinking, and pathalogical ...

The Riddle of Freud Jewish Influences on his Theory of Female Sexuality

The Riddle of Freud: Jewish Influences on his Theory of Female Sexuality

1st Edition

By Estelle Roith
December 15, 1987

In The Riddle of Freud Estelle Roith argues that certain important elements of Judaic culture were so integral a part of Freud's personality that they became visible in his work and especially in his attitudes to and theories of femininity. Freud's formulation of femininity, which the author ...

The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

1st Edition

By Marion Milner
November 17, 1987

Marion Milner introduces this edited collection of her papers from 1942 to 1977 with a fascinating biographical account of her development in psychoanalysis. The collection includes her classic papers on symbolism.  ...

Impasse and Interpretation Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline, and Neurotic Patients

Impasse and Interpretation: Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline, and Neurotic Patients

1st Edition

By Herbert Rosenfeld
May 15, 1987

Herbert Rosenfeld makes a powerful case both for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms and the potential benefits of their treatment by psychoanalytic means.  ...

The Theatre of the Dream

The Theatre of the Dream

1st Edition

By Salomon Resnik
February 28, 1987

The Theatre of the Dream is a profound study of our dream world and its place in everyday life. The author grounds his ideas in Freud and psychoanalysis authors such as Klein, Bion, Rosenfeld and Matte Blanco, but also draws on the approach to dream phenomena in the work of philosophers, artists ...

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