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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 Many Voices of Psychoanalysis

The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis

1st Edition

By Roger Kennedy
March 06, 2007

The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis spans over thirty years of Roger Kennedy's work as a practicing psychoanalyst, providing a fascinating insight into the process of development of psychoanalytic identity. The introduction puts the papers into context, charting the development of the author’s ...

Recovery of the Lost Good Object

Recovery of the Lost Good Object

1st Edition

By Eric Brenman, Gigliola Fornari Spoto
October 24, 2006

Recovery of the Lost Good Object brings together the hugely influential papers and seminars of Eric Brenman, revealing his impact on the development of psychoanalysis and allowing a better understanding of his distinctive voice amongst post-Kleinian analysts. Gathered together for the first time in...

Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century Competitors or Collaborators?

Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?

1st Edition

Edited By David M. Black
May 12, 2006

What can be gained from a dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion? Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of "science." Ever since, there has been the assumption that psychoanalysts are hostile to religion. Yet, from the ...

Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling

Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling

1st Edition

By Antonino Ferro
April 12, 2006

Is psychoanalysis a type of literature? Can telling 'stories' help us to get at the truth? Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between patient and analyst. Antonino Ferro uses ...

This Art of Psychoanalysis Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries

This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries

1st Edition

By Thomas H. Ogden
November 07, 2005

Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis! Why is dreaming the mind's single most important psychoanalytic activity? This Art of Psychoanalysis offers a unique perspective on psychoanalysis that features a new way of conceptualizing the role of dreaming ...

Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious

Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious

1st Edition

By Andre Green
September 20, 2005

André Green attempts the complex task of identifying and examining the key ideas for a contemporary psychoanalytic practice. This undertaking is motivated both by the need for an outline of the evolution of psychoanalysis since Freud's death, and by the hope of tackling the fragmentation which has...

Life, Sex and Death Selected Writings of William Gillespie

Life, Sex and Death: Selected Writings of William Gillespie

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Sinason
July 25, 2005

A distinguished and revered elder of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, Dr William Gillespie is one of the few British psychoanalysts who began training in the Vienna of the early 1930s. Later he became well known in England for his pioneering studies of sexual perversion, and for his views on ...

Glacial Times A Journey through the World of Madness

Glacial Times: A Journey through the World of Madness

1st Edition

By Salomon Resnik
June 06, 2005

In Glacial Times, Salomon Resnik brings together various facets of his work as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, working in both the private sector and in institutional settings and in a wide range of cultural contexts, to provide a careful summary of a lifetime of clinical work. Drawing on ...

The Telescoping of Generations Listening to the Narcissistic Links Between Generations

The Telescoping of Generations: Listening to the Narcissistic Links Between Generations

1st Edition

By Haydee Faimberg
May 19, 2005

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award! The Telescoping of Generations is an original perspective on the transmission of narcissistic links between generations. This attention to unconscious transmission gives fresh understanding of the psychic consequences of experiences such as genocide and ...

Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery The Genesis of Suffering and the Role of Psychoanalysis

Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery: The Genesis of Suffering and the Role of Psychoanalysis

1st Edition

By Antonino Ferro
February 15, 2005

Illustrated with richly detailed clinical vignettes, Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery offers a fascinating investigation into the origins, modes and treatment of psychical suffering. Antonino Ferro provides a clear account of his conception of the way the mind works, his interpretation of the ...

The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper

The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper

1st Edition

By Arnold M. Cooper, Elizabeth L. Auchincloss
January 07, 2005

This book brings together for the first time in one volume selected papers by one of the leading contemporary intellectual figures in the field of psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper M.D. Cooper has addressed every aspect of American psychoanalytic life: theory, clinical work, education, research, the...

The Work of Psychic Figurability Mental States Without Representation

The Work of Psychic Figurability: Mental States Without Representation

1st Edition

By Sára Botella, César Botella
January 07, 2005

The majority of psychoanalysts today agree that the analytic setting faces them daily with certain aspects of their work for which the answers provided by an analytic theory centred exclusively on the notion of representation prove insufficient. On the basis of their experience of analytic practice...

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