Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Art and Analysis: An Adrian Stokes Reader
This edition is an introductory selection from the writings of Adrian Stokes (1902-1972), the Kleinian aesthete who created a unique vision of the relation between psychoanalysis, art, and aesthetic... (more)
Beckett and Bion: The (Im)Patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature
This book focuses on Samuel Beckett’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W. R. Bion as a central aspect both of Beckett’s and Bion’s radical transformations of literature and psychoanalysis. The... (more)
Landscapes of the Chinese Soul: The Enduring Presence of the Cultural Revolution
In 1981 the Communist Party of China declared: “The ‘Cultural Revolution’, which lasted from May 1966 to October 1976, was responsible for the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the... (more)
The Aesthetic Development: The Poetic Spirit of Psychoanalysis: Essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats
'Few people would be better qualified than Meg Harris Williams to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, Harris Williams... (more)
Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life
Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud both offered disparate pictures of the human condition. This book analyzes these thinkers' theories of human behaviour in terms of a higher... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Film
In full acknowledgment of the important cultural significance of film, this outstanding collection of psychoanalytic essays brings a methodological and theoretical sophistication to an absorbing... (more)
The Good Society and the Inner World: Psychoanalysis, Politics and Culture
A forceful advocacy of a psychoanalysis that is social not individualistic in its view of human life, The Good Society and the Inner World surveys the implications of recent psychoanalytical work for... (more)
Why War?: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein
Essays on war, the seduction theory, Margaret Thatcher, education, and a call for a radical re-reading of Melanie Klein's work.
The Anatomy of Prejudices
Surveying the world of prejudices since WWII, Young-Bruehl uncovers a secret history riddled with assumptions, generalisations and clichés. Drawing on theoretical and clinical literature, the author... (more)
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It
The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we... (more)
Wretched of the Earth
Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon'sWretched of the Earth has provided inspiration for anti-colonial... (more)
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engages in the dangerous pleasures of national... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature: Reading the Reader
What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development existential challenges? A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading... (more)
Key Thinkers in Individual Differences: Ideas on Personality and Intelligence
Key Thinkers in Individual Differences introduces the life, work and thought of 25 of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed the measurement of intelligence and personality.... (more)
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your... (more)
Words in Pain: Letters on Life and Death
Words in Pain is a rediscovered treasure. First published anonymously in 1919, these letters from a dying woman to her doctor encapsulate an attitude to death which is fiercely independent of... (more)
Consciousness and Loneliness: Theoria and Praxis
Current research claims loneliness is passively caused by external conditions: environmental, cultural, situational, and even chemical imbalances in the brain and hence avoidable. In this book, the... (more)
Why Does Patriarchy Persist?
The election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many--despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this? What is it about... (more)
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
In this unsettling and innovative book, anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo addresses the problematic of the subject through a dual examination of psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical... (more)
Freud's Russia: National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis
Freud's lifelong involvement with the Russian national character and culture is examined in James Rice's imaginative combination of history, literary analysis, and psychoanalysis. Freud's Russia... (more)
Temporality and Shame: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Temporality has been a central preoccupation of modern philosophy, and shame has been a major theme in contemporary psychoanalysis. To date, however, there has been little examination of the critical... (more)
History Flows through Us: Germany, the Holocaust, and the Importance of Empathy
History Flows Through Us introduces a new dialogue between leading historians and psychoanalysts and provides essential insights into the nature of historical trauma. The contributors - German... (more)
Women Without a Shadow: Maternal Desire and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The recent and rapid development of reproductive technologies has brought into question many concepts at the heart of our culture, such as human reproduction, motherhood and fatherhood. Such concepts... (more)
Divine Therapy: Love, Mysticism and Psychoanalysis
Many debate whether religion is good for our health. Starting with this question, Janet Sayers provides a fascinating account of today's psychotherapy. Divine Therapy is told through love stories.... (more)
Philosophy in the Flesh
What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the centre of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing... (more)
Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity: Now of the Past
Clinical psychoanalysis since Freud has put reconstruction of the patient's history at the forefront of its task but in recent years, this approach has not been so prominent. This book aims to... (more)
Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis
This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman,... (more)
Israel on the Couch: The Psychology of the Peace Process
By applying a clinical psychologist's insight into the Israeli-Arab conflict, Ofer Grosbard lays the foundation for a new theory and practice that espouses the use of clinical tools to promote... (more)
The Feminine and the Sacred
Two of France's leading thinkers investigate stories of African rites, Catholic saints and psychological case studies in an overarching exploration of how women throughout the world cope with forces... (more)