Books written by Thomas Ogden

The Parts Left Out

Miss Gallagher is busy at the moment but will be with you as soon as possible.” Gesturing toward one of the long backless benches, she said, “Please have a seat.” Earl felt certain that Marta had been asked to sit on the same set of ...
The Parts Left Out

The Parts Left Out is a suspenseful story of a poor Kansas wheat-farming family in which each generation holds the next in its deadly grip until murderous opposition explodes.
The Hands of Gravity and Chance

interview with Roth without behaving like a young acolyte. The interview was conducted in a small library in the English department. Two brown, deeply creased and well worn leather armchairs were placed in the center of the room, ...
Meias verdades: um romance

Thomas Ogden, talvez o mais renomado psicanalista que escreve na atualidade, demonstra seu talento como escritor de ficção neste impressionante romance de estreia.
This Will Do...: A Novel

This Will Do... is a gripping story of three young people whose attempts to make a life for themselves are at times misdirected, sometimes self-defeating, and now and again sufficiently successful to make something that "will do.
The Matrix of the Mind: Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue

This book contributes to the retrieval of the alienated through the author's own acts of interpretation of ideas introduced by Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Ronald Fairbairn, and Wilfred Bion. It is offered as an act of interpretation.
Reclaiming Unlived Life: Experiences in Psychoanalysis

Reclaiming Unlived Life sets out a new way that analysts can understand and use notions of truth in their clinical work and in their reading of the work of Kafka and Borges.
The Parts Left Out

This story takes hold of the reader in its opening paragraphs and does not let go until its heart-wrenching ending has been told. I found this book almost impossible to put down.
The Hands of Gravity and Chance

The story opens with the fall of a thirteen-year-old girl down the stairs of the family house, an event that generates fault lines that spread both forward and backward in time, releasing an explosive energy of love and fear, bitterness and ...
The Hands of Gravity and Chance

The story opens with the fall of a thirteen-year-old girl down the stairs of the family house, an event that generates fault lines that spread both forward and backward in time, releasing an explosive energy of love and fear, bitterness and ...
This Will Do...

This Will Do... is a gripping story of three young people whose attempts to make a life for themselves are at times misdirected, sometimes self-defeating, and now and again sufficiently successful to make something that "will do.
Subjects of Analysis

His efforts to do so shine through the work and constitute one of the finest displays of the artistry of analysis that I have ever witnessed. "This book is a work of dedication, of beauty, and of art.
Reclaiming Unlived Life: Experiences in Psychoanalysis

Reclaiming Unlived Life sets out a new way that analysts can understand and use notions of truth in their clinical work and in their reading of the work of Kafka and Borges.
This Will Do...: A Novel

This Will Do... is a gripping story of three young people whose attempts to make a life for themselves are at times misdirected, sometimes self-defeating, and now and again sufficiently successful to make something that "will do.
Reverie and Interpretation: Sensing Something Human

This book is concerned with an attempt to use language to capture/convey a sense of the delicate interplay of aliveness and deadness of human experience in the analytic setting represents a major challenge to contemporary psychoanalysis.
Projective Identification and Psychotherapeutic Technique

This book examines the projective identification and its clinical uses from a Kleinian perspective. It applies the perspective of projective identification to various aspects of the psychotherapy of borderline and schizophrenic patients.
Projective Identification and Psychotherapeutic Technique

This book examines the projective identification and its clinical uses from a Kleinian perspective. It applies the perspective of projective identification to various aspects of the psychotherapy of borderline and schizophrenic patients.