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Decolonization and Psychoanalysis: The Underside of Signification
Decolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges traditional psychoanalytic frameworks by revisiting Lacan’s conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.
Ahmad Fuad... (more)
Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis: The Interpreter of Desires
Combining Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Iranian Shi‘ite thought, and Islamicate sexualities, Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis: The Interpreter of Desires provides a groundbreaking analysis of the... (more)
Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse: Movements in Harmolodic Space
Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse.
In this psychoanalytic, philosophical and musical meditation on... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Severe Disorders in Young Children: Clinical and Community Work with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Child Mental Health
Psychoanalysis and Severe Disorders in Young Children presents case material and resources for professionals working with young children in the clinic and in the community.
Presented in two main... (more)
Artists, Writers and Philosophers on Psychoanalysis: From the Couch
Artists, Writers and Philosophers on Psychoanalysis presents eclectic interviews with leading figures in their fields, focusing on the impact psychoanalysis has had on their lives and work, and the... (more)
For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience can shed light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art.
Through neuroscienfitic and... (more)
Genius After Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
Develops a new psychoanalytic theory of genius, a concept that is often invoked and pervasive in popular culture but which is rarely scrutinized in depth.
In the absence of this scrutiny, genius... (more)
Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue
Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis presents a dialogue between psychoanalysis and folktales from the Greek oral tradition, many of which have never before been published in English.
Each... (more)
Understanding Human Life through Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Tragedy: Explorations of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus
Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens,... (more)
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears explores the intersection of sport and psychoanalysis, emphasizing the often-overlooked psycho-social... (more)
The Politics and Psychoanalysis of Comedy
This book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how humor is shaped by unconscious social and psychological factors within a particular cultural and historical context. Updating Freud’s work... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 14 Number 1 – Special Issue: Turning a Blind Eye: Sexual Violence in Couple and Family Relationships
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
What is Psychoanalysis?
New Shapes of Reality (1968) examines the works and thoughts of A.N. Whitehead, a major philosopher of great originality whose work touches all our preoccupations – but who fell out of favour and... (more)
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis presents conversations with clinicians about their research interests, and their experiences in relation to psychoanalytic practice, focusing... (more)
Why Read Klein? The Importance of Melanie Klein's work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Why Read Klein? explores the importance of Melanie Klein’s work to contemporary psychoanalysis, her contributions as a key early psychoanalyst and continued influence on contemporary... (more)
The Hour of Birth: Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art
To explore the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and contemporary visual artists upon each other, this volume examines the aesthetics of the sublime as an allegory for psychic birth.
Through the... (more)
Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land: Demystifying Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the... (more)
Exploring Eating Disorders Through Psychoanalysis: Unravelling the Psyche
Exploring Eating Disorders through Psychoanalysis explores eating disorders as complex clinical conditions and uses psychoanalysis to explore the psychological factors behind them.
Humberto... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present
This book charts the past and present vicissitudes of psychoanalysis’s relation to education and emphasizes on the necessity of its increased presence in university settings.
Why can fewer and... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.18 No.2
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients. It is published in conjunction with The... (more)
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis offers an overview and exploration of Priscilla Roth’s unique contribution to psychoanalysis over the course of her long and distinguished... (more)
Selfscapes, Selfhoods, and Subjectivities: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
This book explores cross-cultural similarities and differences of human subjectivity and selfhood through the concept of selfscapes.
Utilizing an ethnographic and person-centered approach to the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis
With a new introduction from the author, this critical text of feminist theory explores how Freud's work helps us understand the subjugation of women today.
Psychoanalysis and Feminism had a... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture
In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the... (more)
Anti-Semitism at the Limit: Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis
In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 15 Number 1 – Special Issue: Couples and Families in Film
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
A fascinating introductory volume, Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction integrates existential philosophy with psychoanalysis, drawing on key theorists from both areas and expertly... (more)
Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema
Inspired by the Wild About Horror segments on the Evolution of Horror Podcast, Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema investigates fifty films across six core subgenres—Mind, Body, Nature, Aliens, Vampires,... (more)
Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
This book analyses narrativity in painting from a Freudian-Lacanian perspective.
Narrativity in painting is prominently discussed through disciplinary laws and lens of art history, art theory,... (more)
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's O
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's O pays homage to Wilfred Bion’s lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating... (more)