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].
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 ...
What is this Professor Freud Like?: A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments
1st Edition
By Anna Koellreuter
December 14, 2016
In 1921, a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud. In a diary, she recorded what moved her. The present volume not only contains a full translation of these records, but also collects four essays by two psychoanalysts and two analytical historians who take their cue from the young ...
Corresponding Lives: Mabel Dodge Luhan, A. A. Brill, and the Psychoanalytic Adventure in America
1st Edition
By Patricia R. Everett
September 15, 2016
An influential New York salon host and perpetual seeker of meaning, Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis in 1916 with A.A. Brill, the first American psychoanalyst, continuing until she moved to New Mexico in December 1917. In Taos, she met Antonio Luhan, the Pueblo Indian who became her fourth ...
A Forgotten Freudian: The Passion of Karl Stern
1st Edition
By Daniel Burston
April 25, 2016
This book explores the life and work of a neglected figure in the history of psychoanalysis, Karl Stern, who brought Freudian theory and practice to Catholic (and Christian) audiences around the world.Karl Stern was a German-Jewish neurologist and psychiatrist who fled Germany in 1937 - first to ...
The Skin-Ego: A New Translation by Naomi Segal
1st Edition
By Didier Anzieu
April 04, 2016
In this classic work, the author presents and develops his theory of the importance of 'the Skin-ego'. Just as the skin is wrapped around the body, so the author sees the 'Skin-ego' as a psychical wrapping containing, defining and consolidating the subject. From this perspective, the structure and ...
Karl Abraham: Life and Work, a Biography
1st Edition
By Anna Bentinck van Schoonheten
December 21, 2015
This book provides the reader with rich evidence of the very contemporaneity of Karl Abraham, reminding the reader of his unique clinical contributions to such diverse areas of concentration as the psychoses, depression, and the pre-oedipal....