Our Publications
Many of our members write papers and books to further professional and general understanding of the human mind and relationships, and these are published through various independent journals and publishers. The IOPA itself also co-produces a number of key psychoanalytic resources in order to extend contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and help as many individuals as possible.
New Library of Psychoanalysis
This ongoing book series published by Routledge Mental Health in association with the IOPA aims to share psychoanalytic thinking amongst psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and workers in related fields. They facilitate greater appreciation of psychoanalysis amongst the general public with an aim to increase mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and those in other disciplines. As well as to facilitate communication between different traditions and cultures within psychoanalysis including in different countries and languages.
The New Library of Psychoanalysis has since 1987 continued a rich publishing tradition started by the IOPA in 1921 when, with Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press, it published the first English translations of works by Freud, British and Continental psychoanalysts. Under the successive editorship of a number of IOPA analysts, working with many associate editors and readers from a range of countries, psychoanalytic traditions and languages, The New Library has published many important books on psychoanalysis. The series includes:
- Classic books such as Herbert Rosenfeld’s ‘Impasse and Interpretation’ (1987) and John Steiner’s ‘Psychic Retreats’ (1993),
- Books representing all three schools of thought in British psychoanalysis, including ‘The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45’, edited by Pearl King and Riccardo Steiner, examining the intellectual and organisational controversies that developed in the British psychoanalytical Society between Kleinian, Viennese and 'middle group' analysts during the Second World War,
- Books addressing more applied issues of contemporary concern, particularly in the 'Beyond the couch' series, such as Sally Weintrobe's 'Engaging with climate change' (2012) and Alessandra Lemma's 'Under the skin' (2010) regarding body modification,
- Books by members of The British Psychoanalytical Society such as Irma Brenman Pick's 'Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter’ (2018) and Dana Birksted Breen's ‘The Work of Psychoanalysis (2016), books by colleagues in other societies and other countries such as Thomas Ogden from the US’ Reclaiming Unlived Life' (2016), as well as books aiming to facilitate dialogue with colleagues in other countries such as Rosine Perelberg's 'Psychic Bisexuality' (2018) which includes perspectives from French and British psychoanalysts.
The New Library of Psychoanalysis aims for excellence in psychoanalytic publishing. Submitted manuscripts are rigorously peer-reviewed in order to ensure high standards of scholarship, clinical communications, and writing. You can find the full list of current New Library titles in the main series, as well as the ‘Teaching Series’ and ‘Beyond the Couch’ sub-series, on the Routledge website.
The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
An ongoing series of short books designed to give practising mental health professionals, students, researchers and the general public alike a succinct summary of particular subjects. They are edited by psychoanalysts and psychotherapists with extensive knowledge in their fields coveting a wide range of psychoanalytic subjects such as unconscious phantasy, symbolisation, time and memory, and the nature of psychic reality. Some books offer psychoanalytic perspectives on topics of general interest such as the emotional meaning of money, the experience of donor conception in creating families, the use of psychoanalytic ideas in understanding Shakespeare, and neuroscientific thinking about psychoanalysis.
You can find the full list of current titles on the Karnac book site here.
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Co-published by IOPA and Rowman & Littlefield in the summer of 2024. This new 24-volume set preserves the original Standard Edition English translation and notes by James Strachey published between 1953 and 1966, while adding a new layer of retranslations with explanatory annotations under the editorial leadership of our member, Professor Solms.
PEP Web (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Web)
A subscription-based service that provides a digital collection of current and past psychoanalytic journals, papers and books. PEP was formed in 1996 by the Institute of Psychoanalysis and the American Psychoanalytic Association to further the scholarship, research and outreach of psychoanalytic literature, and became a public charity in 2006. PEP houses a vast amount of material including all the major psychoanalytic journals (including the International Journal of Psychoanalysis), many tens of thousands of articles, key psychoanalytic books including the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1886 - 1939), and a collection of video interviews with influential analysts. A large number of universities, groups and individuals around the world subscribes to PEP.
Find out more here.
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP)
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis was founded by Ernest Jones with the collaboration of Sigmund Freud in 1920.
It also incorporates the International Review of Psycho-Analysis, founded in 1974 by Joseph Sandler. For the last 99 years the IJP has enjoyed its role as the main international vehicle for communication about psychoanalysis, enjoying a wide international readership.
