Matthew H. Bowker
Matthew H. Bowker, Ph.D., is clinical assistant professor in the Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Program at SUNY, University at Buffalo. Educated at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, College Park, he is the author of more than fifteen books and several dozen scholarly essays. He coedits Routledge’s book series, Psychoanalytic Political Theory and is editor (N. America) for the Journal of Psycho-Social Studies (USA). Bowker’s primary research interests are critical psychopolitical theory, literary criticism, and political philosophy. His latest books are The Angels Won’t Help You (Punctum Books), The Destroyed World and the Guilty Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Culture and Politics (with D. Levine, Phoenix), and Oblation: Essays, Parables, and Paradoxes (Punctum Books).
The Destroyed World and the Guilty Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Culture and Politics
David Levine and Mathew Bowker explore cultural and political trends organized around the conviction that the world we live in is a dangerous place to be, that it is dominated by hate and... (more)
Pierre Delion on Psychopolitics: 'What is Institutional Psychotherapy?' and 'The Republic of False Selves'
Pierre Delion is Professor Emeritus in the faculty of medicine at Lille, a child psychiatrist, and a psychoanalyst. His work is as straightforward as it is affecting but is little read in the... (more)
Getting Lost: Reflections on Psychopolitical Isolation and Withdrawal
Getting Lost is focused not on physical distancing and literal sequestration but on psychosocial isolation and withdrawal following a crisis such as the global Covid-19 pandemic. It draws on... (more)
A Dangerous Place to Be: Identity, Conflict, and Trauma in Higher Education
This book investigates recent conflictual events on college and university campuses, including protests directed at university leaders deemed victimizers, debates over the inclusion of “trigger... (more)
D. W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject
In this volume, the work of British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott is set in conversation with some of today’s most talented psychodynamically-sensitive political thinkers. The editors and contributors... (more)