If you discover a book that is not available in the Library, and would be useful for your assignment, dissertation or research, ask the Library to purchase it. We rely on our students and staff to help build up diverse and relevant collections across the social sciences, so please put the details of the book on the book suggestion form 

The majority of books are now available in ebook format and can usually be acquired quickly. Books can also be purchased in print format if required.

Correspondence of leading analysts & theorists is widely published, and can be located in the library catalogue through appropriate searches, e.g.:

Unpublished correspondence may be available in print or digitised format from the holding archive, see the Special Collections & Archives section of this guide for further details

Freud's individual essays and writings are published in the Standard and Revised Standard Editions of his complete works (see box above). These writings are mostly not indexed by the library catalogue, as they largely comprise sections within the volumes of his complete works.

To assist users in locating these important sources, direct links are provided to them below. Works that are frequently referred to on reading lists appear in bold type. All links are to the Revised Standard Edition (RSE), edited by Mark Solms (2024).

Volume 1: 
Report on my Studies in Paris and Berlin (1886)
Preface to the Translation of Charcot’s Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System (1886)
Observation of a Severe case of Hemianaesthesia in a Hysterical Male (1886)
Three Short Reviews (1887)
Hysteria (1888)
Papers on Hypnotism and Suggestion (1888–92)
Extracts from the Fliess Papers (1892–99)
Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895)

Volume 2:
Studies on Hysteria (1893–95)

Volume 3:
Charcot (1893)
On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena: A Lecture (1893)
The Neuropsychoses of Defence (1894)
Obsessions and Phobias: Their Psychical Mechanism and their Aetiology (1895)
On the Grounds for Detaching a Particular Syndrome from Neurasthenia Under the Description ‘Anxiety Neurosis’ (1895)
A Reply to Criticisms of My Paper on Anxiety Neurosis (1895)
Mechanism of Obsessional Ideas and Phobias (1895)
Review of Moebius’s Migraine (1895)
Review of Hegar’s The Sexual Drive (1895)
Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses (1896)
Further Remarks on the Neuropsychoses of Defence (1896)
The Aetiology of Hysteria (1896)
Abstracts of the Scientific Writings of Dr Sigm. Freud 1877–97 (1897)
Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses (1898)
The Psychical Mechanism of Forgetfulness (1898)
Screen Memories (1899)
Autobiographical Note (1901)

Volume 4:
The Interpretation of Dreams: sections 1-6 (1900)

Volume 5:
The Interpretation of Dreams: sections 6-7 (1900)
On Dreams (1901)

Volume 6:
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)

Volume 7:
Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria [Dora] (1905)
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
Freud’s Psychoanalytic Procedure (1904)
Review of Löwenfeld’s Psychical Compulsive Phenomena (1904)
Psychical (or Mental) Treatment (1905)
On Psychotherapy (1905)
My Views on the Part Played by Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses (1906)
Psychopathic Characters on the Stage (1905–06)
Statement on Marriage Law Reform (1905)
Statement on Homosexuality (1905)
Contributions to the Neue Freie Presse (1903–05)

Volume 8:
Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (1905)

Volume 9:
Delusions and Dreams in Jensen’s Gradiva (1907)
Psychoanalysis and the Establishment of the Facts in Legal Proceedings (1906)
Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices (1907)
The Sexual Enlightenment of Children (1907)
Creative Writers and Daydreaming (1908)
Hysterical Phantasies and Their Relation to Bisexuality (1908)
Character and Anal Erotism (1908)
‘Civilized’ Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness (1908)
On The Sexual Theories of Children (1908)
Some General Remarks on Hysterical Attacks (1909)
Family Romances (1909)
Shorter Writings (1906–09)

Volume 10:
Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy [Little Hans] (1909)
Notes Upon A Case of Obsessional Neurosis (1909)

Volume 11:
Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1910)
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood (1910)
The Future Prospects of Psychoanalytic Therapy (1910)
The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words (1910)
A Special Type of Choice of Object made by Men (Contributions to the Psychology of Love I) (1910)
On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love (Contributions to the Psychology of Love II) (1912)
The Taboo of Virginity (Contributions to the Psychology of Love III) (1918)
The Psychoanalytic view of Psychogenic Disturbance of Vision (1910)
‘Wild’ Psychoanalysis (1910)
Shorter Writings (1910–11)

Volume 12:
Psychoanalytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides) (1911)
Papers on Technique (1911–15)
Shorter Writings (1910–13)

Volume 13:
Totem and Taboo (1913)
The Claims of Psychoanalysis to Scientific Interest (1913)
Observations and Examples from Analytic Practice (1913)
Fausse Reconnaissance (‘Déjà Raconté’) in Psychoanalytic Treatment (1914)
The Moses Of Michelangelo (1914)
Some Reflections on Schoolboy Psychology (1914)

Volume 14:
On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement (1914)
On Narcissism: An Introduction (1914)
Papers on Metapsychology (1915)
Drives and their Vicissitudes [SE title: Instincts and their Vicissitudes] (1915)
Repression (1915)
The Unconscious (1915)
A Metapsychological Supplement to the theory of Dreams (1916–17)
Mourning and Melancholia (1916–17)
Overview of the Transference Neuroses (1915)
A Case of Paranoia Running Counter to the Psychoanalytic Theory of the Disease (1915)
Thoughts for the Times on war and Death (1915)
On Transience (1916)
Some Character-Types met with in Psychoanalytic Work (1916)
Shorter Writings (1915–17)

Volume 15:
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, parts 1-2: Parapraxes; Dreams(1916–17)

Volume 16:
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, part 3: General Theory of The Neuroses (1916–17)

Volume 17:
From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (1918 [1914])
On Transformations of Drive as Exemplified in Anal Erotism (1916-17)
A Difficulty in The Path of Psychoanalysis (1917 [1916])
A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit (1917)
Lines of Advance in Psychoanalytic Therapy (1919 [1918])
Should Psychoanalysis be Taught at Universities? (1919)
‘A Child is Being Beaten ’:A Contribution to the Study of the Origin of Sexual Perversions (1919)
Introduction to Psychoanalysis and the War Neuroses (1919)
The ‘Uncanny’ (1919)
Preface to Reik’s Ritual: Psychoanalytic Studies (1919)
Shorter Writings (1919) 

Volume 18:
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921)
The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman (1920)
Psychoanalysis and Telepathy (1921)
Dreams and Telepathy (1922)
Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia and Homosexuality (1922)
Two Encyclopaedia Articles (1923)
Shorter Writings (1920–22)

Volume 19:
The Ego and the Id (1923)
A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis (1923)
Remarks on The Theory and Practice of Dream Interpretation (1923)
Some Additional Notes on Dream Interpretation as a Whole (1925)
The Infantile Genital Organization: an Interpolation Into The Theory of Sexuality (1923)
Neurosis and Psychosis (1924)
The Economic Problem of Masochism (1924)
The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex (1924)
The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis (1924)
A Short Account of Psychoanalysis (1924)
The Resistances to Psychoanalysis (1925)
A Note Upon the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad’ (1925)
Negation (1925)
Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes (1925)
Josef Popper-Lynkeus and the Theory of Dreams (1923)
Dr Sándor Ferenczi (on his 50th Birthday) (1923)
Preface to Aichhorn’s Wayward Youth (1925)
Josef Breuer (1925)
Shorter Writings(1923–25)

Volume 20:
An Autobiographical Study (1925)
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926)
The Question of Lay Analysis (1926)
Psychoanalysis (1926)
Address to the Society of B’nai B’rith (1926)
Shorter Writings (1926)

Volume 21:
The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Civilization and its Discontents (1930)
Fetishism (1927)
Humour (1927)
A Religious Experience (1928)
Dostoevsky and Parricide (1928)
Some Dreams of Descartes’: A Letter to Maxime Leroy (1929)
The Goethe Prize (1930)
Libidinal Types (1931)
Female Sexuality (1931)
Shorter Writings (1929–31)

Volume 22:
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933)
Contributions to Bullitt’s Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study (1967 [1931-1932])
The Acquisition and Control of Fire (1932)
Why War? (1933) (Einstein & Freud)
My Contact with Josef Popper-Lynkeus (1932)
Sándor Ferenczi (1933)
The Subtleties of a Faulty Action (1935)
A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis (1936)
Shorter Writings (1932–38)

Volume 23:
Moses and Monotheism: Three Essays (1939)
An Outline of Psychoanalysis (1940)
Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence (1940)
A Comment on Anti-Semitism (1938)
Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis (1940)
Shorter Writings (1937–39)

Volume 24:
This volume does not contain writings by Freud, but facilitates access to the contents of vols. 1-23
Contents of the Revised Standard Edition, Volumes I–XXIII
Alphabetical List of Freud’s Writings in the Revised Standard Edition
Notes on the Translation
Bibliographies
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
Index of Editorial Annotations, Volumes I–XXIII

 

After looking at reference sources (Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias) to gain an understanding of concepts and terminology, you can research further & extend your knowledge further by using relevant books. All library books, print and electronic, are listed in our online catalogue.

Handbooks can be useful starting points, as they summarise research & the literature on a topic and its subfields. You can search the library catalogue using the keyword "handbook" plus your topic keywords. We have access to the Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies, published by Springer & edited by Julie Walsh & Marita Vyrgioti in PPS and Stephen Frosh at Birkbeck. This is a living reference work regularly updated with new articles. In the social sciences more broadly, the Library subscribes to the Oxford Handbooks Online series.

The Library has a subscription to American Psychiatric Association database Psychiatry Online, which includes the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) as well as other e-book content. The database also gives access to APA journal content, including American Journal of Psychiatry.

The Library gratefully acknowledges the continued financial support of the BB Zeitlyn Trust over the years in enabling the purchase of major works in Psychoanalysis and related fields, in addition to generously placing on permanent deposit the BB Zeitlyn Memorial Library - a large collection of books which have been catalogued and made available on open access for all users. The Trust plays an important role in supporting psychoanalysis, training and practice throughout East Anglia.

Older books are often out of copyright and open access versions may be found on the Web. The Wellcome Institute Library has also digitised many important historic works relevant to psychoanalysis & mental health.

Print books relevant to psychoanalytic studies are scattered throughout the Library, depending on their subject focus,  but many of the most relevant titles may be found at classmarks BF & RC on Floor 2 and on Floor 1 (in the Student Collection). Use the guides at the end of each row to help you browse, and the classification summary below:

Most books particularly relevant to your studies will be recommended on the reading lists for your course modules, but the following are some biographies and general introductory titles (all available electronically) which make useful background reading.   

A wide range of academic presses publish in psychoanalysis and related fields. Probably the major publisher is Routledge and you can search their titles in psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, counselling, trauma, psychotherapy, etc.
SAGE have a good selection of titles in Counselling & Psychotherapy

Psychoanalysis also has a number of specialist publishers. These may offer popular titles, academic books, or a mixture. Some of the best known include:

Analytical Psychology Press newish & very small US Jungian publisher

Blucher Brazilian publisher with an emphasis on Psychoanalysis (works in Portuguese)

Chiron Publications well-established US-based Jungian publisher associated with Murray Stein among others

Confer Books (including the well known Karnac imprint, acquired in 2020)

Daimon Verlag founded in 1978, this Swiss-based firm publishes books on Jungian Psychology, mythology, dreams, and related topics in English and in German

Escuta publisher of Brazilian works on psychoanalysis (in Portuguese)

Free Association Books important outlet of long-standing

Guilford Publications well-known, established (1973) New York publisher that started with a focus on mental health and psychiatry. Has since broadened to some other subject areas, but still publishes around psychoanalysis, psychotherapies and related fields

Inner City Books Jungian publisher (1980-) located in Toronto

Inner Traditions US based publisher with a long history (1975) of publishing around religion, spirituality, occult, astrology, well-being, and related fields

IPBooks US-based publisher of psychoanalytic books since 2009

Other Press New York press, established 1998, originally focusing mainly on psychoanalysis, has since broadened out to literature & other areas

Phoenix Publishing established 2018, independent publisher of books on mental health from a psychoanalytic perspective, also 6 journals, 5 of which are available through PEPWeb (albeit with an embargo on the current 3 years of content)

Spring Publications important US-based analytical psychology publisher of books and Spring journal

Unconscious in Translation (UIT) publishes English language translations of theoretical and literary works connected to psychoanalysis and the philosophy of mind, and was first established in consultation with Jean Laplanche

Zagodoni publisher of Brazilian works on psychoanalysis (in Portuguese)

If there is a book you need for your research that isn't available in the library catalogue, you can suggest it for purchase using the Purchase Suggestion Form

Psychoanalysis & psychosocial studies books are not always visible through subject browsing on the websites of major publishers, but an approach that can be useful is to look for psychoanalytic book series. Here are a few examples of some well-known series:

Counselling in Action (SAGE)

Critical childhood and youth studies (Rowman & Littlefield)

Essential issues in counselling & psychotherapy (SAGE)

Palgrave Lacan series (Springer)

Psychoanalytic studies: clinical, social & cultural contexts (Rowman & Littlefield)

Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)

Studies in the psychosocial (Springer) co-edited by Raluca Soreanu (PPS, Essex University)