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Brett Kahr, “Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel” (Routledge, 2019)
Brett Kahr
Bombs in the Consulting Room
Surviving Psychological Shrapnel
Routledge, 2019

New Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 15, 2019 Sebastian Thrul

“I’m very happy to say I really really do love psychoanalysis. I think the insights are absolutely genius and I don’t think that I would be able to do any of my work if I didn’t have those ideas readily available to me.” In Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving... Read More
Ian Parker, “Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Context: Subjectivity, History, and Autobiography” (Routledge, 2019)
Ian Parker
Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Context
Subjectivity, History, and Autobiography
Routledge, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 13, 2019 Jordan Osserman

There are many pathways into the world of psychoanalysis. Some arrive from fields like psychiatry and psychology; some from literature, philosophy, and the humanities; and others from political organising. Our guest Ian Parker found his way into Lacanian psychoanalysis via dissatisfaction with his training in psychology, alongside strongly-held Marxist and... Read More
John Launer, “Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein” (Henry N. Abrams, 2017)
John Launer
Sex Versus Survival
The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein
Henry N. Abrams, 2014

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 11, 2019 Tracy Morgan

John Launer‘s Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein (Overlook Duckworth Press, 2014) manages to supplant (and given the power of the visual image, this is no mean feat) the picture you may have in your mind of Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender in flagrante delicto. If this... Read More
Carlo Bonomi, “The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis, Vol. I,” (Routledge, 2017)
Carlo Bonomi
The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis
Volume I: Sigmund Freud and Emma Eckstein
Routledge, 2015

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 7, 2019 Vira Sachenko

Carlo Bonomi‘s two-volume set dreams the foundation of psychoanalysis as it writes its history. The work animates the reader’s imagination, inviting them to journey the interwoven paths of Sigmund Freud’s associations, anxieties and conflicts. These books tackle what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and... Read More
Benjamin Fong, “Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Benjamin Fong
Death and Mastery
Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
Columbia University Press, 2016

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network October 31, 2019 Tracy Morgan

Benjamin Fong’s Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism (Columbia University Press, 2016) revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery, and makes lively and thoroughgoing use of both to revisit arguments about the power of the culture industry... Read More
Robert P. Drozek, “Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process” (Routledge, 2019)
Robert P. Drozek
Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process

Routledge, 2019

New Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network October 28, 2019 Christopher Bandini

The subject of ethics in psychoanalysis has long been relegated to the sidelines of clinical theory. In his new book Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process with a forward by Peter Fonagy (Routledge, 2019), Robert P. Drozek utilizes both philosophical and analytic concepts to arrive at a new theory of an... Read More
Ira Helderman, “Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion” (UNC Press, 2019)
Ira Helderman
Prescribing the Dharma
Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Spiritual Practice and MindfulnessNew Books Network October 24, 2019 Jack Petranker

Buddhism and psychotherapy have been in conversation since the days of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erich Fromm. Today, when practices drawn from Buddhism have entered the mainstream, that conversation continues in multiple dimensions. In Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion (University of North Carolina Press, 2019),... Read More

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