Psychotherapy and Politics Books
Mental Slavery: Psychoanalytic Studies of Caribbean People
Mental Slavery is a unique and timely contribution to the field of trans-cultural psychoanalysis, casting light on an area previously neglected within mainstream psychoanalytic writing.
Barbara... (more)
Lacan and the Political
The work of Jacques Lacan is second only to that of Freud in its impact on psychoanalysis. The author examines Lacan's challenging views on time, history, language, alterity, desire and sexuality... (more)
Psycho-politics and Cultural Desires
A cultural studies textbook that deals with issues of methodology, as well as mapping out the history and theories of the subject. The book focuses on the past, present and future of cultural... (more)
The Politics of Uncertainty: Attachment in Private and Public Life
This volume makes a case for strategies of co-operation at both personal and political levels, in order to ensure our economic and social survival in the 21st century. It looks at how each of us... (more)
The Politics of Attachment: Towards a Secure Society
The contributors - all distuinguished authorities from a variety of backgrounds in public, professional and academic life - share a common conviction that we all have a powerful need to belong, to be... (more)
The Good Society and the Inner World: Psychoanalysis, Politics and Culture
A forceful advocacy of a psychoanalysis that is social not individualistic in its view of human life, The Good Society and the Inner World surveys the implications of recent psychoanalytical work for... (more)
Fear of Freedom
New edition in the 'Routledge Classics Series'. A psychoanalytical and historical work which asks whether the fear of freedom is the root of the 20th-century's predeliction for one or other kind of... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia: Searching for Truth
A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia provides psychoanalytic insight into the motives of this complex and contradictory figure.
The contributors, from... (more)
America's Psychological Now: Enlivening the Social and Collective Unconscious in a Time of Urgency
This book explores the causes behind Trump's victory in the 2016 US Presidential election and asks how a psychoanalytic understanding of the social unconscious can help us plot a new direction for... (more)
Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance
Collecting authoritative contributions, Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance combines the life experience of victims with the expertise of scholars... (more)
Who's to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial
Who’s to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial presents a psychoanalytic exploration of blame and collective guilt in the aftermath of large-scale atrocities that cause widespread trauma and... (more)
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life
This book argues that the notion of 'wild' analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic notions, diagnoses, and treatment by an individual who has not undergone... (more)
Psychoanalytic Insights into Social, Political, and Organizational Dynamics: Understanding the Age of Trump
This fascinating interdisciplinary work explores U.S. politics since 2015 and offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United... (more)
Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules
Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary body outlaws--people from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden.... (more)
Embodied Social Justice
Embodied Social Justice introduces a body-centered approach to working with oppression, designed for social workers, counselors, educators, and other human service professionals. Grounded in current... (more)
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Imagine a world where...
* Your phone is too big for your hand
* Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body
* In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.
If... (more)
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country... (more)
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the... (more)
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain
In Britain today, the government, judiciary and military are all led by an elite who attended private school. Under their watch, our society has become increasingly divided and the gap between rich... (more)
Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class
Stiff Upper Lip exposes the hypocrisy, cronyism and conspiracy that are key to understanding the scandals over abuse and neglect in institutions all over the world. (more)
Why Some Politicians are More Dangerous Than Others
Politicians and the political process, even in ostensibly democratic countries, can be deadly. James Gilligan has discovered a devastating truth that has been "hiding in plain sight" for the past... (more)
Lacan, Politics and Aesthetics
In this volume, psychoanalysts, cultural theorists, and literary critics demonstrate the relevance of the unconscious economy to the field of cultural studies, applying psychoanalytic criticism to... (more)