What is its history?

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy has its basis in psychoanalysis and uses the same working concepts. Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis, soon followed by Carl Jung.

Other major thinkers and practitioners in the field have been Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby, Wilfred Bion, Jacques Lacan and Anna Freud.

More recent writers include Thomas Ogden,  Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, John Klauber, Ron Britton.

Apart from the publications of these people, books of more interest to the general public include:

  • Why Psychotherpay by Nina Herman

  • The Piggle by D.W. Winnicott

  • Why Freud by Michael Jacobs

and many of the books by Adam Philips.


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