Stephen Frosh
Stephen Frosh is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an Academic Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society, a Founding Member of the Association of Psychosocial Studies, and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis. He is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the author of over 20 books on psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis, including A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic; The Politics of Psychoanalysis; Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis; Hauntings; Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness and most recently, Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis, published by Bloomsbury in 2023. He is co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies and the Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies. His most recent book is How to be Real: A Survival Guide in Challenging Times.
How to be Real: A Survival Guide in Challenging Times
In How to Be Real, leading psychosocial thinker Stephen Frosh tackles one of our most urgent questions: how can we thrive in a world so troubling and confusing? Despite constant exhortations to be... (more)
A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalytic theory remains hugely influential to our understanding of the mind and human behaviour. It provides a rich source of ideas for therapeutic practice while offering dramatic insights for... (more)
Hate and the 'Jewish Science': Anti-semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis
Through exploration of Freud's Jewish identity, the fate of psychoanalysis in Germany under the Nazis, and psychoanalytic theories of anti-Semitism, this book examines the significance of the Jewish... (more)
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions shows how the present is troubled by the past and by the future, using the idea of haunting to explore psychoanalytically how identities, beliefs,... (more)
Young Masculinities: Understanding Boys in Contemporary Society
How do boys see themselves? Their peers? The adult world? What are their aspirations and fears? 'Young masculinities' centres on a study in which boys talked openly about these questions and many... (more)
After Words: The Personal in Gender, Culture and Psychotherapy
In this book, which draws on some of Stephen Frosh's most innovative work, the question of how to understand the 'personal' in contemporary social life is explored through three themes: 'troubled... (more)
For and Against Psychoanalysis: Second Edition
For and Against Psychoanalysis provides an accessible introduction and critical guide to the current standing of psychoanalysis. It is essential reading for students of psychoanalysis, counselling,... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Contexts: Paths Between Theory and Modern Culture
Explores the changes in psychoanalytic theory over the last century, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and contemporary culture. Contributors include Jessica Benjamin, Cornelius... (more)
The Politics of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Freudian and Post-Freudian Theory
This completely revised and updated second edition is a guide to the range and complexity of psychoanalytic theories. Beginning with the work of Freud, it examines the basic assumptions and social... (more)
Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis
Examines theories of sexual difference from a Kleinian and a Lacanian perspective, and the application of these issues in the practice of treating sexual violence and child abuse. (more)
Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology
In psychology and other social sciences, narrative analysis has become a widely used technique for understanding people's accounts of their lives. Yet, the difference between narrative analysis and... (more)
Hate and the 'Jewish Science': Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis has always grappled with its Jewish origins, sometimes celebrating them and sometimes trying to escape or deny them. Through exploration of Freud's Jewish identity, the fate of... (more)
Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies
Psychoanalytic theory offers an interesting insight into the study of culture and the arts. This unique book explains how clinical concepts inform and engage with key issues throughout the humanities... (more)
Feelings (Short Cuts)
Everyone talks about their feelings, but what exactly are they? What are the distinguishing features of feelings, and how do they differ from emotions and affects? How do our feelings influence the... (more)
Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis has not had a comfortable history in relation to "race" and racism, despite its origins in the Jewish lives of Freud and its other first-generation progenitors and the insistent... (more)
The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies
Over the past decades, psychosocial studies has demonstrated its strengths and influence across diverse sites of theory and practice; it continues to grow as an area of transdisciplinary research... (more)
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies is an innovative, multidisciplinary volume covering the history, religion, culture, and politics of Jewish studies and... (more)