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Inside Out: Issue 2: Spring 2009

Inside Out: Issue 2: Spring 2009

Edited by Rebecca Atherton

  • Paperback £5.50

Poet Laureate Andrew Motion reveals how writing a memoir allowed him to finally lay his childhood demons to rest. Louise DeSalvo, author of "Writing as a Way of Healing", explains how writing has... (more)

Beyond Postmodernism: New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practice

Beyond Postmodernism: New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practice

Edited by Roger Frie, Donna M. Orange

  • Paperback £39.99

Beyond Postmodernism identifies ways in which psychoanalysis has moved beyond the postmodern debate and discusses how this can be applied to contemporary practice. Roger Frie and Donna Orange bring... (more)

Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film

Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film

by Rudolph Binion

  • Paperback £32.99

Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a... (more)

Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present

Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present

by Lisa Appignanesi

  • Paperback £14.99

New in paperback. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Theroigne de... (more)

Shameful Behaviors

Shameful Behaviors

by Tim Delaney

  • Paperback £28.00

What do Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Richard Gere, untalented American Idol singers, former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, former baseball player Jose Conseco, "dead-beat" fathers, and drunken college... (more)

The New Social Disease: From High Tech Depersonalization to Survival of the Soul

The New Social Disease: From High Tech Depersonalization to Survival of the Soul

by Ronald S. Laura, Tim Marchant

  • Paperback £38.00

Highly technological machines are invading our lives and separating us from personal relationships. The balance between the use of technology for human advantage and developing valued human... (more)

Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging: Third Revised Edition

Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging: Third Revised Edition

by Margaret Cruikshank

  • Paperback £35.00

Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the... (more)

In Search of the Good Life: Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Art of Living

In Search of the Good Life: Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Art of Living

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £32.99

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in the... (more)

Lacan and the Destiny of Literature: Desire, Jouissance and the Sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery

Lacan and the Destiny of Literature: Desire, Jouissance and the Sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery

by Ehsan Azari

  • Hardback £150.00

This is an original study aiming to explain fully Lacanian thought and apply it to the study of literary texts.In contemporary academic literary studies, Lacan is often considered impenetrably... (more)

It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction

It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction

by Alexander N. Howe

  • Paperback £52.00

This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques... (more)

Inside Out: Issue 1: Autumn 2008

Inside Out: Issue 1: Autumn 2008

Edited by Rebecca Atherton

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"Inside Out" is a new breed of literary arts magazine. Part literary publication, part therapeutic expression, its aim is to promote creativity for self-development through the publication of a... (more)

Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis

Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis

by Karen E. Starr

  • Paperback £38.99

Examines transformation from the perspective of Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis, addressing the question of how one achieves self-understanding that leads not only to insight but also to... (more)

Twins in the World: The Legends They Inspire and the Lives They Lead

Twins in the World: The Legends They Inspire and the Lives They Lead

by Alessandra Piontelli

  • Paperback £54.99

In this compelling narrative, Alessandra Piontelli explores the different roles that twins play in societies around the world. In her travels throughout Africa, Asia, South America, and the Pacific... (more)

Obsession: A History (Hardback)

Obsession: A History (Hardback)

by Lennard J. Davis

  • Hardback £35.50

We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we also admire... (more)

Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture

Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture

by Esther Rashkin

  • Hardback £69.35

See catalogue number 29198 for the paperback edition. Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies. Esther... (more)

Lou Von Salome: A Biography of the Woman Who Inspired Freud, Nietzsche and Rilke

Lou Von Salome: A Biography of the Woman Who Inspired Freud, Nietzsche and Rilke

by Julia Vickers

  • Paperback £30.95

The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salomé left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she... (more)

Japan in Analysis: Cultures of the Unconscious

Japan in Analysis: Cultures of the Unconscious

by Ian Parker

  • Hardback £109.99

Addresses three key questions: Why is there psychoanalysis in Japan?, What do we learn about Japan from its own forms of analysis?, and What do we learn about ourselves from Japan? The book is about... (more)

Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip

Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip

by Trevor M. Dobbs

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Harry S. Guntrip was best known for his affiliation with two famous psychoanalysts from what is known as the British Independent tradition of psychoanalysis in England: Ronald Fairbairn and Donald... (more)

Mirroring and Attunement: Self-Realization in Psychoanalysis and Art

Mirroring and Attunement: Self-Realization in Psychoanalysis and Art

by Kenneth Wright

  • Paperback £39.99

Mirroring and Attunement offers a new approach to psychoanalysis, artistic creation and religion. Viewing these activities from a broadly relational perspective, Kenneth Wright proposes that each... (more)

Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida

Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida

by Elisabeth Roudinesco

  • Hardback £80.00

For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a 'great generation' of... (more)

The Crescent and the Couch: Cross-Currents Between Islam and Psychoanalysis

The Crescent and the Couch: Cross-Currents Between Islam and Psychoanalysis

Edited by Salman Akhtar

  • Hardback £86.00

Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis, The Crescent and the Couch brings together a distinguished panel of Muslim... (more)

Culture and Psyche: Selected Essays: Second Revised Edition

Culture and Psyche: Selected Essays: Second Revised Edition

by Sudhir Kakar

  • Paperback £7.99

A new edition including three additional essays and a new introduction. Culture and Psyche is a collection of Sudhir Kakar's essays on cultural psychology, which analyses various facets of Indian... (more)

Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

by Jonathan Lear

  • Paperback £21.95

Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story - up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he... (more)

Identity in Question

Identity in Question

by Anthony Elliott, Paul Du Gay

  • Paperback £37.99

Whilst undoubtedly one of the most controversial but also most established issues in research and debate within the contemporary social and human sciences, as well as in cultural studies, work on... (more)

The Psychology of Physical Attraction

The Psychology of Physical Attraction

by Viren Swami, Adrian Furnham

  • Print £32.99

People have long been interested in the complexities of human beauty, but until recently the science of attractiveness was largely left to poets, playwrights, philosophers, and artists. This book... (more)

Violence

Violence

by Slavoj Zizek

  • Paperback £9.99

The premise of Zizek's theory is that the subjective violence we see - violence with a clear identifiable agent - is only the tip of an iceberg made up of systemic violence, which is essentially the... (more)

Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative History

Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative History

by Kelly Bulkeley

  • Paperback £25.99

An authoritative and engaging one-volume resource for the study of dreaming and religion. It tells the story of how dreaming has shaped the religious history of humankind, from the Upanishads of... (more)

Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism

Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism

Edited by Greg Forter, Paul A. Miller

  • Print £24.05

Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis? What can this desire contribute to a vital cultural criticism? In "Desire of the Analysts", these and other questions are addressed by leading... (more)

Awakening Our Faith in the Future: The Advent of Psychological Liberalism

Awakening Our Faith in the Future: The Advent of Psychological Liberalism

by Peter T. Dunlap

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This book investigates the avenues for creating a new branch of psychology, a transformative political psychology. In the past, political psychology has focused directly on analysis and knowledge... (more)

Sitegeist - Number 2 (Spring 2009) - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

Sitegeist - Number 2 (Spring 2009) - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

Edited by Kirsty Hall, Stephen Gee

  • Paperback £18.99

Sitegeist is a space for thinking and questioning philosophy and psychoanalysis; it aims at a change in Geist - spirit, mind, intellect, wit, genius and morale. It seeks to contribute to a renewal of... (more)

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