Psychotherapy and Politics Books
Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance
Collecting authoritative contributions, Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance combines the life experience of victims with the expertise of scholars... (more)
Who's to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial
Who’s to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial presents a psychoanalytic exploration of blame and collective guilt in the aftermath of large-scale atrocities that cause widespread trauma and... (more)
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life
This book argues that the notion of 'wild' analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic notions, diagnoses, and treatment by an individual who has not undergone... (more)
Psychoanalytic Insights into Social, Political, and Organizational Dynamics: Understanding the Age of Trump
This fascinating interdisciplinary work explores U.S. politics since 2015 and offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United... (more)
Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules
Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary body outlaws--people from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden.... (more)
Embodied Social Justice
Embodied Social Justice introduces a body-centered approach to working with oppression, designed for social workers, counselors, educators, and other human service professionals. Grounded in current... (more)
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Imagine a world where...
* Your phone is too big for your hand
* Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body
* In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.
If... (more)
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country... (more)
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the... (more)
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain
In Britain today, the government, judiciary and military are all led by an elite who attended private school. Under their watch, our society has become increasingly divided and the gap between rich... (more)
Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class
Stiff Upper Lip exposes the hypocrisy, cronyism and conspiracy that are key to understanding the scandals over abuse and neglect in institutions all over the world. (more)
Why Some Politicians are More Dangerous Than Others
Politicians and the political process, even in ostensibly democratic countries, can be deadly. James Gilligan has discovered a devastating truth that has been "hiding in plain sight" for the past... (more)
Lacan, Politics and Aesthetics
In this volume, psychoanalysts, cultural theorists, and literary critics demonstrate the relevance of the unconscious economy to the field of cultural studies, applying psychoanalytic criticism to... (more)