Es va especialitzar en neurologia i a través del cirurgià Wilfred Trotter va entrar en contacte amb l'obra de Freud, Jones va iniciar-se en la tècnica de la hipnosi en el seu treball clínic a principi del segle xx.[2]
Maddox (2006) inclou una exhaustiva bibliografia sobre els escrits de Jones.
1912 – Papers on Psycho-Analysis. London: Balliere Tindall & Cox. Revised and enlarged editions, 1918, 1923, 1938, 1948 (5th edition).
1920 – Treatment of the Neuroses. London: Balliere Tindall & Cox
1923 – Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis. London: International Psycho-Analytical Press. Revised and enlarged edition, 1951, London: Hogarth Press. Reprinted (1974) as Psycho-Myth, Psycho-History. 2 vols. New York: Hillstone.
1924 (editor) – Social Aspects of Psycho-Analysis: Lectures Delivered under the Auspices of the Sociological Society. London: Williams and Norgate.
1928 – Psycho-Analysis. London: E. Benn. Reprinted (1949) with an Addendum as What is Psychoanalysis ?. London: Allen & Unwin.
1931a – On the Nightmare. London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis.
1931b – The Elements of Figure Skating. London: Methuen. Revised and enlarged edition, 1952. London: Allen and Unwin.
1949 – Hamlet and Oedipus. London: V. Gollancz.
1953 – Sigmund Freud: Life and Work. Vol 1: The Young Freud 1856–1900. London: Hogarth Press.
1955 – Sigmund Freud: Life and Work. Vol 2: The Years of Maturity 1901–1919. London: Hogarth Press.
1956 – Sigmund Freud: Four Centenary Addresses. New York: Basic Books.
1957 – Sigmund Freud: Life and Work. Vol 3: The Last Phase 1919–1939. London: Hogarth Press.
1959 – Free Associations: Memories of a Psycho-Analyst. Epilogue by Mervyn Jones. London: Hogarth Press. Reprinted (1990) with a New Introduction by Mervyn Jones. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
1961 – Sigmund Freud: Life and Work. An abridgment of the preceding 3 volume work, by Lionel Trilling and Stephen Marcus, with Introduction by Lionel Trilling. New York: Basic Books.
Brome, V. (1982). Ernest Jones: Freud's Alter Ego. London: Caliban Books.
Davies, T. G. (1979). Ernest Jones: 1879–1958. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Jones, E. (1959). Free Associations: Memories of a Psycho-Analyst. London: Hogarth Press.
Maddox, B. (2006). Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones. London: John Murray.
Paskauskas, R Andrew (1988). 'Freud's Break with Jung: The Crucial Role of Ernest Jones'. Free Associations 11, 7–34.
Paskauskas, R. Andrew (Editor). (1993). The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908–1939, Introduction by Riccardo Steiner. Cambridge, Mass/London: Belknap Press.