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IPBooks

Since 2009, we’ve been dedicated to publishing cutting edge books in the field of psychoanalysis: clinical, theoretical, and applied. We also publish books of interest to the wider mental health profession and a broader informed audience.

At IPBooks, you’ll also find works of fiction, memoir, non-fiction, children’s and poetry penned by creative writers and selected leading scholars. View titles that are coming soon to IPBooks here.

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The Anatomy of a Psychotic Experience

Richard Reichbart

In an age in which truthtelling has been under siege, Richard Reichbart—scholar, teacher, author, President of a major psychoanalytic institute—tells a truth many would choose to hide.

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People Don't Drown in Living Rooms

Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan

Written in the form of a modern epistolary novel, the email correspondence between Ella and Itamar, this is the tale of a psychologist and patient caught in an impossible situation, raising the everlasting question about the essence of psychotherapy.

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Memento

Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau

A poignant story of life, loss, tragedy, aging, death and birth. The main character Sine and her internal world and life are vividly captured through the images evoked within the reader with beautiful language.

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Make Me the Sky: A Novel

Joan Wexler

This remarkable novel takes us through a girl’s struggles with adversity from midteen age on an early twentieth century shtetl to womanhood through encounters with abusive uncles, consignment to a Budapest brothel and escape to Manhattan’s teaming poverty stricken lower east side.

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Unorthodox: My Life In and Outside Psychoanalysis: A Memoir

Arnold D. Richards

A Memoir by Arnold D. Richards about his life in and outside Psychoanalysis with a foreword by Daniel S. Benveniste.

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The Way it Ends

Theodore Jacobs

Dr. Strickman, a psychoanalyst turned amateur gumshoe, sets off to uncover how his brother died–murder or suicide? A subplot of Israeli Palestinian conflict masterfully adds depth and tension to this engaging, dark and, yet, humorous tale.

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The Science of Psychoanalysis: The Realization of Freud’s Promise

Festschrift in Honor of Howard Shevrin

Howard Shevrin would love to be present at scientific gatherings, and/or to hear about those people writing about his endeavors. Because that was really one of his main wishes and hopes: to see that there are others who will carry on his work.

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Psychoanalysis

Fiction

Non-fiction

Memoir

Poetry

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Featured Books

A Brief Introduction to Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis And His Enduring Legacy by Sander Abend

emma and her selves: a memoir of treatment and a therapist’s self-discovery by may benatar

Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely Edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira and Arthur A. Lynch

Freedom to Choose: Two Systems of Self-Regulation by Jack Novick & Kerry Kelly Novickk

Psychoanalytic Technique with Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Ivan Sherick

Sinatra: The Swinging Narcissist by Harvey A. Kaplan

Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Thought Collectives: More Selected papers by Arnold Richards Volume 2

Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice by Sandra Buechler

The Unknown Freud: Five Essays and Five Plays by Robert L. Lippman

The Way We Are: How States of Mind Influence Our Identities, Personality and Potential for Change by Frank W. Putnam