“Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations” (essay) 1943; published in Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

Dynamics of Prejudice: A Psychological and Sociological Study of Veterans [with Morris Janowitz] (nonfiction) 1950

Love Is Not Enough: The Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Children (nonfiction) 1950

Symbolic Wounds: Puberty Rites and the Envious Male (nonfiction) 1954; revised edition, 1962

Truants from Life: The Rehabilitation of Emotionally Disturbed Children (nonfiction) 1955

The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age (nonfiction) 1960

Dialogues with Mothers (nonfiction) 1962

The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self (nonfiction) 1967

The Children of the Dream (nonfiction) 1969; also published as The Children of the Dream: Communal Childrearing and American Education, 1970, and as The Children of the Dream: Communal Childrearing and Its Implications for Society, 1971

A Home for the Heart (nonfiction) 1974

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (nonfiction) 1976

Surviving and Other Essays (essays) 1979; also published as Surviving the Holocaust, 1986

Freud and Man's Soul (nonfiction) 1982

On Learning to Read: The Child's Fascination with Meaning [with Karen Zelan] (nonfiction) 1982

A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Childrearing (nonfiction) 1987

Freud's Vienna, and Other Essays (essays) 1989

Recollections and Reflections (essays) 1990