Ryan LaMothe
Ryan LaMothe is a professor of pastoral care and counseling at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, USA. Over the last three decades, he has published books and articles in the areas of psychology of religion, psychoanalysis, pastoral counseling, and political theology and philosophy. He is Past President of the Society for Pastoral Theology and has served on several editorial boards.
Becoming Alive: Psychoanalysis and Vitality
Becoming Alive draws on the Winnicottian idea of transitional objects, and puts forward the argument that human beings relate to and use objects in order to generate experiences of 'being alive'. (more)
Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community
In Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community, Ryan LaMothe questions the ways in which psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theorists and clinicians have historically... (more)
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age: The Fierce Urgency of Now
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse.
Presented in two... (more)