Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought
10 best books like Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (Stephen A. Mitchell): The Interpretation of Dreams, Man and His Symbols, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment, Freud: A Life for Our Time
The Interpretation of Dreams
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN | 1566195764 |
Die Traumdeutung = The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what...
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0440351839 |
My university professors never introduced me to Carl Jung. I understand why, I guess, but it's a shame that I didn't read Jung's work until now. Jungian psychology is amazing. It addresses the unconscious and the "self"/"psyche" in a unique and enlightening way. And, unlike most other psychologists,...
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0060938110 |
Anyone interested in psychotherapy or personal growth will rejoice at the publication of The Gift of Therapy, a masterwork from one of today's most accomplished psychological thinkers. From his thirty-five years as a practicing psychiatrist and as an award-winning author, Irvin D. Yalom imparts...
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0060958340 |
The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires...
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0465092845 |
The classic work on group psychotherapy
Hailed by Jerome Frank as "the best book that exists on the subject," Irvin D. Yalom's The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has been the standard text in the field for decades.
In this completely revised and updated fifth edition, Dr. Yalom...
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0465016901 |
The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply...
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
| Author | William R. Miller |
| ISBN | 1572305630 |
This bestselling work has introduced hundreds of thousands of professionals and students to motivational interviewing (MI), a proven approach to helping people overcome ambivalence that gets in the way of change. William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick explain current thinking on the process of...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
| Author | Bessel A. van der Kolk |
| ISBN | 0670785938 |
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment
| Author | Babette Rothschild |
| ISBN | 0393703274 |
This book illuminates that physiology, shining a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory.
It is now thought that people who have been traumatized hold an implicit memory of traumatic events in their brains and bodies. That memory is often expressed...
| Author | Peter Gay |
| ISBN | 0393328619 |
Brilliant biography of Freud (probably the best since Ernest Jones’s three v. effort). Heavy emphasis on ideas, especially within the nineteenth century context (both bourgeois Vienna & 19th c. scientific -- e.g., Darwin & physiological school). Treats the psychoanalytic movement,...
| Author | Saul A. Kripke |
| ISBN | 0674954017 |
Kripke is brilliant, and I only regret that it took me until now to read and to appreciate him. He gives an amazing exegesis of Wittgenstein, who was also brilliant, but obfuscated the fact by making his case with rhetorical questions. Kripke has figured out the answers to the rhetorical questions, and...
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN | 0393314030 |
The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.
What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore...
Attachment in Psychotherapy
| Author | David J. Wallin |
| ISBN | 1593854560 |
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience,...
Psychoanalytic Case Formulation
| Author | Nancy McWilliams |
| ISBN | 1572304626 |
What kinds of questions do experienced therapists ask themselves when facing a new client? How can clinical expertise be taught? From the author of the landmark Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, this book takes clinicians step-by- step through developing an understanding of each client's unique psychology...
| Author | D.W. Winnicott |
| ISBN | 0415345464 |
What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relationship with the outside world. In this landmark...
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide
| Author | Nancy McWilliams |
| ISBN | 1593850093 |
Addressing the art and science of psychodynamic treatment, Nancy McWilliams distills the essential principles of clinical practice, including effective listening and talking; transference and countertransference; emotional safety; and an empathic, attuned attitude toward the patient....
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
| Author | Nancy McWilliams |
| ISBN | 0898621992 |
This is the first text to come along in many years that makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to beginning practitioners. The last book of its kind, which was published more than 20 years ago, predated the development of such significant concepts as...
