Derek Hook

Derek Hook is an Associate Professor of Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA, and a Extraordinary Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture to this Collection' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'

Edited by Calum Neill, Derek Hook

Reading Lacan's Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's Écrits to be published in English, providing an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan's... (more)

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia

Edited by Derek Hook, Stijn Vanheule

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia. considers how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical... (more)

Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'

Edited by Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook

The Ecrits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading... (more)

Reading Lacan's Écrits: From 'Logical Time' to 'Response to Jean Hyppolite'

Edited by Derek Hook, Calum Neill

Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan’s Écrits to be published in English. This third volume provides an indispensable companion piece to... (more)

Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache'

Edited by Derek Hook, Calum Neill

Ecrits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading... (more)

Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power

by Derek Hook

This innovative book explores the application of Michel Foucault's work to the field of psychology. Throughout his work Foucault develops a powerful critique of the uses of psychological knowledge... (more)

A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial: The Mind of Apartheid

by Derek Hook

An oft-neglected element of postcolonial thought is the explicitly psychological dimension of many of its foundational texts. This unprecedented volume explores the relation between these two... (more)

(Post)apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation

by Derek Hook

What are the psychical mechanisms that underlie a given social formation? (Post)apartheid Conditions investigates this question by exploring a series of psychosocial topics - the body,... (more)

Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towards a Transformative Psychosocial Praxis

Edited by Garth Stevens, Norman Duncan

For decades the global gaze on South African society invariably focused on it as a symbol of the inevitable excesses of social engineering, racism and violence under the apartheid dispensation; with... (more)

Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and identification in psychology and psychoanalysis

by Derek Hook

Many first-time readers of Jacques Lacan come to his work via psychology, a discipline that Lacan was notoriously antagonistic toward. Six Moments in Lacan takes up the dual challenge of introducing... (more)

Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory

Edited by Derek Hook, Sheldon George

This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism... (more)

Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology

Edited by Leswin Laubscher

Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology is the first edited collection dedicated to exploring the explicitly phenomenological foundations underlying Frantz Fanon's most important insights. ... (more)

Developmental psychology:

Edited by Derek Hook

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Psychopathology and social prejudice:

by Derek Hook, Gillian Eagle

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