This is an (unfinished) list of books and papers about psychotherapy, including case studies, autobiographies, memoirs, and fiction.
The reading materials for our group will include:
- primary books that are engaging and easy to understand, serving as an introduction to psychotherapy,
- other popular and accessible books that are available in case there is a demand for it,
- advanced and challenging books and papers that will only be read and discussed, based on the interests and preferences of the group members.
(Since this list is a work-in-progress, all suggestions for books or papers to be added to the list are greatly appreciated. Either comment the desired addition below or send me an email.)
MAIN READING LIST FOR THE BOOK CLUB:
Atlas, G. (2023). Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma. Little, Brown Spark.
Gottlieb, L. (2019). Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed. Generic.
Luepnitz, D. (2003). Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas. Basic Books.
Note: I will briefly present these accessible and popular psychotherapy books in the first session. We can then choose together which one to start with. (P.S.: All of these books also have an audiobook version!)
Additional resources that we can get into (on demand):
CASE STUDIES – VERY ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND PAPERS (SIMILAR TO THE ONES ABOVE):
Cardinal, M., & Bettelheim, B. (2013). The Words to Say It (9th ed). Van Vactor & Goodheart.
Cowan, E. W. (2017). Ariadne’s Thread: Case Studies in the Therapeutic Relationship. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
Epstein, M. (2023). The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life. Penguin Books.
Greenberg, J., & Wang, E. W. (2022). I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Penguin Classics.
Grosz, S. (2014). The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves. W. W. Norton & Company.
Havens, L. (1994). Coming to Life: Reflections on the Art of Psychotherapy. Harvard University Press.
Lindner, R., & Lear, J. (1999). The Fifty-Minute Hour. Other Press.
Milner, M. (2010). The Hands of the Living God: An Account of a Psycho-analytic Treatment. Routledge.
Milner, M., & Bowby, R. (2011). A Life of One’s Own. Routledge.
Orbach, S. (2002). The Impossibility of Sex: Stories of the Intimate Relationship between Therapist and Patient. Touchstone.
Rogers, A. G. (1996). A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy. Penguin Life.
Rosenbaum, M. S. (2013). Dare to Be Human: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Journey. Routledge.
Roth, P. (1994). Portnoy’s Complaint (Reprint Edition). Vintage.
Touton-Victor, P. (2012). The Stolen Girl and Other Stories: Seven Psychoanalytical Tales. Karnac Books.
Yalom, I. D. (1991). Every Day Gets A Little Closer. Basic Books.
Yalom, I. D. (2006). Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy. Piatkus.
Yalom, I. D. (2013). Loves Executioner. Penguin Books Ltd.
CASE STUDIES – MORE DIFFICULT AND ADVANCED BOOKS AND PAPERS:
Aron, L. & Atlas, G. (2015). Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 25(3), 309-324.
Atwood, G. E. (2012). Psychotherapy as a human science: Clinical case studies exploring the abyss of madness. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, 8(1), 1–24.
Baldwin, Y. G. (2018). Let’s Keep Talking: Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes (1st ed.). Routledge.
Bichi, E. L. (2008). A case history: From traumatic repetition towards psychic representability. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 89(3), 541–560.
Binswanger, L. (1958). The Case of Ellen West: An Anthropological-Clinical Study. In W. M. Mendel & J. Lyons (Eds.), Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology (pp. 237–364). Basic Books/Hachette Book Group. https://doi.org/10.1037/11321-009
Bonifacino, N. (2023). Psychoanalysis of young children with autism spectrum disorders. An adaptation of technique in the approach to three cases. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 104(1), 23–45.
Carneiro, M. I. N. E. (2017). The case of Bento: A child analysis in four parts. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 98(5), 1411–1421. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-8315.12670
D’Angelo, R. (2020). The man I am trying to be is not me. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 101(5), 951–970.
Di Rocco, V., & Minjard, R. (2021). Establishing a therapeutic relationship: An initial stake in psychotherapy with young psychotic adults. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 102(4), 689–709.
Dolto, F. (1973). Dominique: Analysis of an adolescent (I. Kats, Trans.; 1st Us Edition). Outerbridge & Lazard.
Durban, J. (2019). “Making a person”: Clinical considerations regarding the interpretation of anxieties in the analyses of children on the autisto-psychotic spectrum. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100(5), 921–939.
Feinberg, B. (2018). Ending analysis: The case of Karl. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 99(6), 1435–1443.
Ferenczi, S. (1995). The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi (J. Dupont, Ed.). Harvard University Press.
Ferro, A. (2006). Trauma, reverie, and the field. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75(4), 1045–1056.
Ferro, A. (2009). Transformations in dreaming and characters in the psychoanalytic field. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 90(2), 209–230.
Freud, S. (1893a). Frau Emmy von N, Case Histories from Studies on Hysteria. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 2:48-105
Freud, S. (1893b). Miss Lucy R, Case Histories from Studies on Hysteria. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 2:106-124
Freud, S. (1893c). Katharina, Case Histories from Studies on Hysteria. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 2:125-134
Freud, S. (1893d). Fräulein Elisabeth von R, Case Histories from Studies on Hysteria. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 2:135-181
Freud, S. (1905). Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905 [1901]). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 7:1-122
Freud, S. (1909a). Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 10:1-150
Freud, S. (1909b). Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 10:151-318
Freud, S. (1911). Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 12:1-82
Freud, S. (1913). Observations and Examples from Analytic Practice. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 13:191-198
Freud, S. (1918). From the History of an Infantile Neurosis. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 17:1-124
Habibi-Kohlen, D. (2018). Paths of the countertransference in the analyst—Clinical examples of working through. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 99(2), 391–410.
Hartung, T., & Steinbrecher, M. (2017). From somatic pain to psychic pain: The body in the psychoanalytic field. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Herman, N. (2018). My Kleinian Home: Into a New Millennium. Routledge.
Klein, M. (2012). Narrative of a Child Analysis: The Conduct of the Psycho-analysis of Children as Seen in the Treatment of a Ten Year Old Boy (New Ed Edition). Vintage Digital.
Kohut, H. (1979). The two analyses of Mr. Z. The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 60, 3.
Little, M. I. (1977). Psychotic Anxieties and Containment: A Personal Record of an Analysis With Winnicott (First Edition). Jason Aronson, Inc.
Llairó, A., Gomà, M., & Nanzer, N. (2023). The exploration of maternal representations during a parenthood-centred psychotherapy from pregnancy to one year postpartum. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 104(1), 46–68.
Luepnitz, D. A. (2017). The name of the Piggle: Reconsidering Winnicott’s classic case in light of some conversations with the adult ‘Gabrielle’. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 98(2), 343–370.
Manica, M. (2018). From the unrepresentable to the intersubjective: The case of a high-functioning autistic adolescent. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 99(1), 181–207.
Mathelin, C. (1999). Lacanian Psychotherapy with Children: The Broken Piano. Other Press.
Merchant, J. (2015). Foetal trauma, body memory and early infant communication: A case illustration. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 60(5), 601–617.
Molinari, E. (2011). From one room to the other: A story of contamination. The relationship between child and adult analysis. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 92(4), 791–810.
Ogden, T. H. (2018). How I talk with my patients. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 87(3), 399–413.
Quagelli, L. (2023). Continuities, discontinuities and transformations in the psychotherapy of a psychotic adolescent during the time of coronavirus. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 104(2), 263–280.
Rho, W. (2021). Bridging cultures in Psychoanalytic work: The case of Yune. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 102(2), 343–353.
Rosenfeld, H. A. (1965). Analysis of a Schizophrenic State with Depersonalization. In Psychotic States. Routledge.
Salomonsson, B. (2020). Psychoanalysis with adults inspired by parent–infant therapy: Reconstructing infantile trauma. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 101(2), 320–339.
Segal, H. (1950). Some aspects of the analysis of a schizophrenic. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 31, 268–278.
Stefana, A., & Gamba, A. (2018). From the “squiggle game” to “games of reciprocity” towards a creative co-construction of a space for working with adolescents. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 99(2), 355–379.
Theodorou Ehrlich, L. (2020). The case of J: Working as a psychoanalyst during the Pandemic. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 101(4), 791–796.
Weisel-Barth, J. (2011). Katherine: A long, hard case. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 6(4), 444–468.
Weiss, H. (2022). The Case of T: Working as an analyst with trauma and its consequences. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 103(4), 641–650.
Winnicott, D. W. (2008). The Piggle: An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl. Penguin Books in Association w.
