Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
This Incredible Need to Believe
"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of frightening either the faithful or the agnostics,... (more)
Maimonides' Cure of Souls: Medieval Precursor of Psychoanalysis
Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud. Is Moses Maimonides an unacknowledged ancestor of the psychoanalytic movement?... (more)
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies. Esther Rashkin argues that psychoanalysis galvanizes, as no other... (more)
Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the... (more)
The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter
Although psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism derive from theoretical and philosophical assumptions worlds apart, both experientially-based traditions share at their heart a desire for the understanding,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
Unveils the psychoanalytic undercurrents of contemporary Islam. Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst who, although a secular thinker, identifies himself as a person of Muslim culture who rejects... (more)
Inside Out: Issue 2: Spring 2009
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion reveals how writing a memoir allowed him to finally lay his childhood demons to rest. Louise DeSalvo, author of "Writing as a Way of Healing", explains how writing has... (more)
Beyond Postmodernism: New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practice
Beyond Postmodernism identifies ways in which psychoanalysis has moved beyond the postmodern debate and discusses how this can be applied to contemporary practice. Roger Frie and Donna Orange bring... (more)
Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film
Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a... (more)
Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present
New in paperback. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Theroigne de... (more)
Shameful Behaviors
What do Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Richard Gere, untalented American Idol singers, former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, former baseball player Jose Conseco, "dead-beat" fathers, and drunken college... (more)
The New Social Disease: From High Tech Depersonalization to Survival of the Soul
Highly technological machines are invading our lives and separating us from personal relationships. The balance between the use of technology for human advantage and developing valued human... (more)
Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging: Third Revised Edition
Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the... (more)
In Search of the Good Life: Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Art of Living
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in the... (more)
Lacan and the Destiny of Literature: Desire, Jouissance and the Sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery
This is an original study aiming to explain fully Lacanian thought and apply it to the study of literary texts.In contemporary academic literary studies, Lacan is often considered impenetrably... (more)
It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction
This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques... (more)
Inside Out: Issue 1: Autumn 2008
"Inside Out" is a new breed of literary arts magazine. Part literary publication, part therapeutic expression, its aim is to promote creativity for self-development through the publication of a... (more)
Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis
Examines transformation from the perspective of Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis, addressing the question of how one achieves self-understanding that leads not only to insight but also to... (more)
Twins in the World: The Legends They Inspire and the Lives They Lead
In this compelling narrative, Alessandra Piontelli explores the different roles that twins play in societies around the world. In her travels throughout Africa, Asia, South America, and the Pacific... (more)
Obsession: A History (Hardback)
We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we also admire... (more)
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
See catalogue number 29198 for the paperback edition. Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies. Esther... (more)
Lou Von Salome: A Biography of the Woman Who Inspired Freud, Nietzsche and Rilke
The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salomé left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she... (more)
Japan in Analysis: Cultures of the Unconscious
Addresses three key questions: Why is there psychoanalysis in Japan?, What do we learn about Japan from its own forms of analysis?, and What do we learn about ourselves from Japan? The book is about... (more)
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip
Harry S. Guntrip was best known for his affiliation with two famous psychoanalysts from what is known as the British Independent tradition of psychoanalysis in England: Ronald Fairbairn and Donald... (more)
Mirroring and Attunement: Self-Realization in Psychoanalysis and Art
Mirroring and Attunement offers a new approach to psychoanalysis, artistic creation and religion. Viewing these activities from a broadly relational perspective, Kenneth Wright proposes that each... (more)
Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida
For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a 'great generation' of... (more)
The Crescent and the Couch: Cross-Currents Between Islam and Psychoanalysis
Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis, The Crescent and the Couch brings together a distinguished panel of Muslim... (more)
Culture and Psyche: Selected Essays: Second Revised Edition
A new edition including three additional essays and a new introduction. Culture and Psyche is a collection of Sudhir Kakar's essays on cultural psychology, which analyses various facets of Indian... (more)
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story - up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he... (more)
Identity in Question
Whilst undoubtedly one of the most controversial but also most established issues in research and debate within the contemporary social and human sciences, as well as in cultural studies, work on... (more)