15 Best nonfiction books like A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice by Bruce Fink

Cover of A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice by Bruce Fink

A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

By: Bruce Fink

4.49

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Freud’s central theories explained in the context of modern therapy. Often overlooked because he is…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice by Bruce Fink , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

4.19

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more

Similar categories in Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • nonfiction
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Cover of Freud and the Non-European by None, Jacqueline Rose, Christopher Bollas, Edward W. Said

2. Freud and the Non-European

By: None , Jacqueline Rose , Christopher Bollas , Edward W. Said

3.81

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said e… read more

Similar categories in None's Freud and the Non-European book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon, Haakon Chevalier

3. A Dying Colonialism

By: Frantz Fanon , Haakon Chevalier

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria … read more

Similar categories in Frantz Fanon's A Dying Colonialism book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin, Rodney Livingstone, Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, None, Howard Eiland, Thomas Y. Levin

4. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

Similar categories in Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • nonfiction
Cover of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Michael Cunningham, Michael Henry Heim

5. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Cover of The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud, A.A. Brill

6. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

By: Sigmund Freud , A.A. Brill

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" Freud examines the psychological basis for the forgetting… read more

Similar categories in Sigmund Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

7. Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier

3.98

Format: 350 pages,

Cold Mountainis a novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's… read more

Similar categories in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

Cover of What Is Madness? by Darian Leader

8. What Is Madness?

By: Darian Leader

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Madness, in our culture, is defined by visibility. From the popular press to TV soaps and films, th… read more

Similar categories in Darian Leader's What Is Madness? book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin, Ari Larissa Heinrich

9. Last Words from Montmartre

By: Qiu Miaojin , Ari Larissa Heinrich

2.77

Format: 130 pages,

When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she… read more

Similar categories in Qiu Miaojin's Last Words from Montmartre book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

Cover of Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom

10. Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteri… read more

Similar categories in Irvin D. Yalom's Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • nonfiction
  • psychology

11. The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma

By: Annie G. Rogers

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Hardcover

In her twenty years as a clinical psychologist, Annie Rogers has learned to understand the silent l… read more

Similar categories in Annie G. Rogers's The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

13. Lacan: A Beginner's Guide

By: None

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the wo… read more

Similar categories in None's Lacan: A Beginner's Guide book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

14. Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

By: Deborah Anna Luepnitz

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Anna Luepnitz's Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

15. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

Similar categories in Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

Cover of The Symposium by Plato, Christopher Gill

16. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

Similar categories in Plato's The Symposium book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • nonfiction
"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

17. Introducing Lacan

By: Richard Appignanesi , Judy Groves , Darian Leader

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This series is renowned for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, prec… read more

Similar categories in Richard Appignanesi's Introducing Lacan book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

18. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

Similar categories in Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

19. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Angela Richards

4.10

Format: 322 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Sigmund Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

Cover of Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

20. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

Cover of A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

21. A Thousand Ships

By: Natalie Haynes

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's A Thousand Ships book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

Cover of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

22. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

Similar categories in Yanis Varoufakis's Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • nonfiction
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Cover of What IS Sex? by Alenka Zupančič

23. What IS Sex?

By: Alenka Zupančič

4.25

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual s… read more

Similar categories in Alenka Zupančič's What IS Sex? book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"It is perhaps not enough to say that there is no essence of femininity; one could go a step further and say that the essence of femininity is to pretend to be a woman. One is a woman if one carries c…"

-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?

"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningless, no…"

-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?

"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningsless, n…"

-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?

Cover of Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (The Writings of Anna Freud, Vol 2) by Anna Freud

24. Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (The Writings of Anna Freud, Vol 2)

By: Anna Freud

3.87

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense is a master work by one of the most important figures in early ps… read more

Similar categories in Anna Freud's Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (The Writings of Anna Freud, Vol 2) book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Let's Keep Talking by Yael Goldman Baldwin

25. Let's Keep Talking

By: Yael Goldman Baldwin

4.09

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Let's Keep Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes is a collection of original Lacania… read more

Similar categories in Yael Goldman Baldwin's Let's Keep Talking book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

Cover of The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Psychoanalytic Horizons) by Todd McGowan

26. The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Psychoanalytic Horizons)

By: Todd McGowan

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. I… read more

Similar categories in Todd McGowan's The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Psychoanalytic Horizons) book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"The fundamental task of fantasy is to transform an impossible satisfaction that no one could attain into a prohibited satisfaction that becomes unattainable due to the fantasized obstacle that preven…"

-Todd McGowan, The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Psychoanalytic Horizons)

"Not only does the immigrant perform work that citizens will not perform for a wage that they will not accept, according to the racist fantasy, the immigrant does so without acceding to the rules that…"

-Todd McGowan, The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Psychoanalytic Horizons)

Cover of A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice by Bruce Fink

27. A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

By: Bruce Fink

4.49

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Freud’s central theories explained in the context of modern therapy. Often overlooked because he is… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 by Jacques Lacan

28. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955

By: Jacques Lacan

4.28

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching wi… read more

Similar categories in Jacques Lacan's The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors."

-Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955

Cover of Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis & Culture) (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) by Richard Feldstein

29. Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis & Culture) (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)

By: Richard Feldstein

3.95

Format: 460 pages, Paperback

In this collection of essays, Lacan's early work is first discussed systematically by focusing on h… read more

Similar categories in Richard Feldstein's Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis & Culture) (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • psychoanalysis
Cover of A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture (Hardcover)) by Mari Ruti

30. A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture (Hardcover))

By: Mari Ruti

4.32

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called “the … read more

Similar categories in Mari Ruti's A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture (Hardcover)) book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account (Psychoanalytic Horizons) by Betty Milan

31. Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account (Psychoanalytic Horizons)

By: Betty Milan

4.44

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Analyzed by Lacan brings together the first English translations of Why Lacan, Betty Milan's memoir… read more

Similar categories in Betty Milan's Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account (Psychoanalytic Horizons) book and Bruce Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice

10 must-read psychology books like A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice by Bruce Fink

Transform Your Habits

Freud and the Non-European

None , Jacqueline Rose , Christopher Bollas , Edward W. Said

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Sigmund Freud , A.A. Brill

3.43

Transform Your Habits

What Is Madness?

Darian Leader

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Irvin D. Yalom

3.66

View all the books

9 Top nonfiction books like Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom

Transform Your Habits

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Judith Lewis Herman

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Alice Miller , None

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Irvin D. Yalom

3.66

The Art of Loving

Erich Fromm , Rainer Funk , Peter D. Kramer

3.45

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.