Resources

  1. Web sites and other links of interest
  2. Recommended readings
  3. Recommended viewing

 

1. Web sites and other links of interest

(if there’s a resource you’ve found that you think should be added to this list, please email your suggestion(s) to: cavitch@upenn.edu)

Academics for the Advancement of Psychodynamic Psychology
American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)
American Psychological Association–Division 39
Après-coup
Center for Psychoanalysis and Technology
Freud Museum, Vienna
Freud Museum, London
International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IRRP)
International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education
International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA)
IPA|Off the Couch
Lacan.com
Penn and PSYS at APsaA
PEP Web (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing)
Philadelphia Lacan Study Group
Psyche on Campus (blog)
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (PCOP)
Sigmund Freud Electronic Archives
William Alanson White Institute 
World Association of Psychoanalysis/Association mondiale de psychanalyse

 

2. Recommended readings

John Burnham, ed., After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Vera Camden, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Morris N. Eagle, From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique and Integration (London: Routledge, 2011)
George Makari, Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (New York: HarperCollins, 2008)
Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structures in the Clinical Process, 2nd ed. (New York: Guilford Press, 2020)
Juliet Mitchell, Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis, rev. ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2000)
Stephen A Mitchell and Margaret J. Black, Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (New York: Basic Books, 2016)
Adam Philips, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998)
Jean-Michel Rabaté, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Lacan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Philip Rieff, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, 3rd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979)
Eli Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis (New York: Penguin, 2005)
Eli Zaretsky, Political Freud: A History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015)

 

3. Recommended viewing and listening

APsaA, 100 Years of Psychoanalysis in America (approx. 11 minutes)
British Psychoanalysis Yesterday and Today (approx. 16 minutes)
Judith Butler, What Is Gender? (approx. 14 minutes)
David Maloney, How Trauma Splits the Psyche and The Process of Integration (approx. 23 minutes)
Ordinary Unhappiness (podcast; available at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, and other services)
Adam Phillips, Against Self-Criticism (lecture, approx. 71 minutes)
Interview with Mark Solms, “NeuroPsychoanalysis 2009, Session 1” (approx. 100 minutes)
Interview with Mark Solms, “NeuroPsychoanalysis 2009, Session 2” (approx. 85 minutes)
Interview with psychoanalyst and author Adam Phillips about his recent biography of Sigmund Freud (approx. 4 minutes)
Andrew Solomon, Depression, the Secret We Share (2013, approx. 30 minutes)
Spaces of Psychoanalysis (dir. Bartek Dziadosz, approx. 20 minutes): produced by the Psychoanalytic Studies program at Birkbeck University of London
Freud Museum London, What Is Psychoanalysis? Part 1: Is It Weird? (approx. 9 minutes); Part 2: Sexuality (approx. 10 minutes); Part 3: The Oedipus Complex (approx. 11 minutes); Part 4: The Ego, the Id and the Superego (approx. 11 minutes)
Basia Winograd, dir., Black Psychoanalysts Speak (2014, approx. 60 minutes)
Basia Winograd, dir., Psychoanalysis in El Barrio (2016, approx. 50 minutes)