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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


The Psychotic Wavelength A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Psychiatry

The Psychotic Wavelength: A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Psychiatry

1st Edition

By Richard Lucas
August 18, 2009

The Psychotic Wavelength provides a psychoanalytical framework for clinicians to use in everyday general psychiatric practice and discusses how psychoanalytic ideas can be of great value when used in the treatment of seriously disturbed and disturbing psychiatric patients with psychoses, including ...

Melanie Klein in Berlin Her First Psychoanalyses of Children

Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children

1st Edition

Edited By Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Claudia Frank
April 23, 2009

In this book Claudia Frank discusses how Melanie Klein began to develop her psychoanalysis of children. Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children offers a detailed comparative analysis of both published and unpublished material from the Melanie Klein Archives. By using ...

Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process Selected Papers of Michael Feldman

Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process: Selected Papers of Michael Feldman

1st Edition

By Michael Feldman, Betty Joseph
March 12, 2009

In this profound and subtle study, a practising psychoanalyst explores the dynamics of the interaction between the patient and the analyst. Michael Feldman draws the reader into experiencing how the clinical interaction unfolds within a session. In doing so, he develops some of the implications of ...

Rediscovering Psychoanalysis Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting

Rediscovering Psychoanalysis: Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting

1st Edition

By Thomas H Ogden
November 19, 2008

Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis! Rediscovering Psychoanalysis demonstrates how, by attending to one’s own idiosyncratic ways of thinking, feeling, and responding to patients, the psychoanalyst can develop a "style" of his or her own, a way of ...

Mind Works Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis

Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis

1st Edition

By Antonino Ferro
November 10, 2008

Is the analyst's mind a factor in the analytic process? In Mind Works Antonino Ferro uses clinical material such as detailed reports of sessions, together with client's analytic histories, to develop Bion’s original findings and illustrate complex concepts in the field of psychoanalytic technique....

Time, Space and Phantasy

Time, Space and Phantasy

1st Edition

By Rosine Jozef Perelberg
July 30, 2008

Time, Space, and Phantasy examines the connections between time, space, phantasy and sexuality in clinical practice. It explores the subtleties of the encounter between patient and analyst, addressing how aspects of the patient’s unconscious past are actualised in the present, producing new ...

Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches

Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable: The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches

1st Edition

By David Tuckett
March 28, 2008

How do we know when what is happening between two people should be called psychoanalysis? What is a psychoanalytic process and how do we know when one is taking place? Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable describes the rationale and ongoing development of a six year programme of highly ...

Constructions and the Analytic Field History, Scenes and Destiny

Constructions and the Analytic Field: History, Scenes and Destiny

1st Edition

By Domenico Chianese
November 28, 2007

Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their task more of a historical reconstruction? In seeking to answer this question, Domenico Chianese examines Freud's ...

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1st Edition

By Hanna Segal, Nicola Abel-Hirsch
August 20, 2007

What is the role of psychoanalysis in today's world? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow presents a selection of papers written by Hanna Segal. The collection introduces the reader to a wide spectrum of insights into psychoanalysis, ranging from current thoughts on the nature of dreaming to new ideas ...

Encounters with Melanie Klein Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius

Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius

1st Edition

By Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Priscilla Roth, Richard Rusbridger
August 03, 2007

In Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her background in anthropology led her on to a profound involvement in psychoanalysis and her establishment as a...

Feeling the Words Neuropsychoanalytic Understanding of Memory and the Unconscious

Feeling the Words: Neuropsychoanalytic Understanding of Memory and the Unconscious

1st Edition

By Mauro Mancia
May 09, 2007

How are the implicit memory and the unrepressed unconscious related? Feeling the Words incorporates a thorough review of essential psychoanalytic concepts, a clear critical history of analytical ideas and an assessment of the contribution neuroscience has to offer. Mauro Mancia uses numerous ...

Projected Shadows Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema

Projected Shadows: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema

1st Edition

Edited By Andrea Sabbadini
May 09, 2007

Projected Shadows presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focusing specifically on the representation of loss in European cinema. This theme is discussed in its many aspects, including: loss of hope and innocence, of youth, of consciousness, of freedom...

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