Psychoanalysis & Psychodynamic Psychology

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Freud, S. (1935). A general introduction to psychoanalysis. Oxford, England
Liveright.
Sigmund Freud’s introductory lectures, published in paperback as
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, are still the best and most interesting introduction to psychoanalysis ever written, even though many developments have ensued. It still gives the best feel for psychoanalysis—
and is presented in a language intended for the intelligent public.
Gluck, L. (1995). Proofs and theories. New York HarperCollins.
In Proofs and Theories, poet and Pulitzer Prizewinner Gluck expounds the value of her analysis.
Greenberg, J. (1964). I never promised you arose garden. New York Penguin. This classic by J. Greenberg is about her descent into psychosis when she was 16 years old, her 3 years in mental institutions, and her later recovery. Hall, J. S. (1998). Deepening the treatment. Lanham, MD Jason Aronson/Rowan
& Littlefield.
Deepening the Treatment is a psychoanalytically oriented book and recommended reading for students of psychotherapy. Hall, J. S. (2004). Roadblocks on the journey of psychotherapy. Lanham, MD Jason Aronson/Rowan & Littlefield.
Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy illustrates resistances that can impede psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the forms that these resistances take.
Lear, J. (2005). Freud. New York Routledge. Written by Jonathan Lear, a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago, Freud is a summary of his teachings about Freud to undergraduates. Lear shows how Freud also made fundamental contributions to philosophy and why he ranks alongside Plato, Aristotle, Marx, and Darwin as a great theorist of human nature.
Leavy, S. (1980). The psychoanalytic dialogue. New Haven, CT Yale University Press.
The Psychoanalytic Dialogue is a good book for starters.
Lichtenberg, JD. The talking cure A descriptive guide to
psychoanalysis. Hillsdale, NJ Analytic Press.
The Talking Cure is a well-written book for the layman about psychoanalysis.
Lindner, R. (1955). The jet-propelled couch. In R. Lindner, The fifty minute houri iA collection of true psychoanalytic tales. New York Holt Rinehart.
The Fifty Minute Hour contains a variety of stories that look at the self of the analyst. The Jet-Propelled Couch portrays a therapist who becomes lost in his patient’s science-fiction fantasies.
Menaker, D. (1998). The treatment. New York Washington Square Press.
The Treatment is a funny and tender book about 32-year-old Jake Singer, who is living an anxiety-filled life in New York City in the late 1990s.
Rossner, J. (1984). August. Waterville, ME Thorndike Press.
August is easy, fun, talks about transference, and gives a good example of a fairly raucous treatment, taken from the author’s own analysis.

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Schachter, J. (Ed. (2006). Transforming lives Analyst and patient view the
transforming power of psychoanalytic treatment. Lanham, MD Rowan &
Littlefield Publishers.
In this book, psychoanalysts and patients descriptions of treatment and the analysts offer a wide variety of theoretical positions. Written for the general public, the book contains jargon-free and detailed summaries of successful analytic treatments by analysts of very different persuasion. The book includes commentaries written by four of the patients about their own treatment. Stockton, W. J. (2005). Now it all makes sense. Ivy, VA Free Will Publishing,
L.L.C.
The author wrote it free of jargon, specifically for the general reader as well as for students and less-experienced therapists. At www.
NowItAllMakesSense.com, you can order the book and read a sample chapter and the book’s reviews, which are headed by Richard Simons, other notable colleagues, and several general readers. Now It All Makes
Sense is composed of 11 chapters. After an introductory chapter, it shows the detailed dialogue between a self-knowledge psychotherapist and patient, then discusses the patient’s condition, the reasoning behind the therapeutic intervention, and how self-knowledge psychotherapy works.
Vaughn, S. (1997). The talking cure The science behind psychotherapy. New York Putnam. In this book, the author uses a lot of clinical material to demonstrate how analysis works and also hypothesizes about how analysis may alter neural pathways.
Viorst, J. (1986). Necessary losses. New York Simon and Schuster.
Necessary Losses is an accessible and authentic version for the general public of what psychoanalysis is about.
Volkan, VD. What do you get when you cross a dandelion with arose
The true story of psychoanalysis. New York Jason Aronson. This book provides a case report of one psychoanalytic interaction. Volkan attempts to demonstrate how meaning can be formulated from the patient’s communications. Includes a sound cassette.
Weinberg, G. H. (1990). The taboo scarf and other tales (st ed. New York St. Martins Press.
The Taboo Scarf provides a rare look at psychotherapy from the perspective of the therapist. Drawn from Weinberg’s experiences as a therapist in New York City, the stories in this collection are compelling portraits of patients he has treated over the years.
Yalom, ID. Love’s executioner and other tales of psychotherapy.
New York Harper Perennial.
Love’s Executioner is a collection of 10 stories about therapeutic encounters. The book looks at the relationship between a psychotherapist and a patient.
Zweig, S, Paul, E. (Trans, & Paul, D. (Trans. (1932). The mental healers Franz
Anton Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud. New York Viking Press.
Zweig presents three exciting biographies of Mesmer, Eddy, and Freud.

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