Honoring his “intellectual commitments” Reis enlists theorists including Winnicott, de M’Uzan, Bollas, and Ogden, to help him render elegant clinical moments as opposed to grand narrative case studies...

Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

McGowan combines sophisticated discussion of matters like the limits of formal logic and the history of German Idealism with playful allusions to Star Trek characters and classic films like Casablanca and Bridge on the River Kwai...

Zalloua uses Žižekian philosophy to arrive at more complicated, but also more productive and emancipatory visions of racial oppression and emancipation might look like...

Fontelieu seeks to examine a collection of social and political traumas, both personal and collective...

You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...

This book bears witness to what’s possible when the raw pain and heartbreak of life and death are worked with in Psychoanalysis...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider use psychoanalysis and psychology as frameworks for understanding the vexingly enduring power of this social structure...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Johnston traces the development of Žižek's recent thought in detail, salvaging the key philosophical themes while also offering several criticisms and developments of his own...

"Psychic Bisexuality" clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is constructed as a psychic bisexuality that is inherent to all human beings...

Imagination is one of the most important elements of being human, but is most often assumed we know what it is,..

Becker recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960...

For Lacan, the birth of the human subject is brought about by an encounter with language, the other, and the social link...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Kahr takes us on a tour de force through the rough fringes of clinical practice...

Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...

Spielrein's life resembles a nodal point; she stood at the crossroads of extraordinary changes in world politics and psychoanalysis...

Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...

The subject of ethics in psychoanalysis has long been relegated to the sidelines of clinical theory...

Buddhism and psychotherapy have been in conversation since the days of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erich Fromm...