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Jamieson Webster, “Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis” (Columbia UP, 2018)

Jamieson Webster
Conversion Disorder
Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis
Columbia University Press, 2018

New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Science & Technology June 19, 2020 Jordan Osserman

What do psychoanalysts do with bodies, and what do they do with them now? Jamieson Webster has been thinking and writing on these questions as they impact her in her practice and her life. In this interview, we explore her latest book, Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis, alongside her... Read More

J. Weinberger and V. Stoycheva
The Unconscious
Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications
Guilford Press, 2019

New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Psychology New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network June 15, 2020 Eugenio Duarte

The concept of the unconscious has a complicated place in the history of psychology. Many areas of study ignored or outright denied it for a long time, while psychoanalysis claimed it as one of its central tenets. More recently, many non-psychoanalytic researchers have addressed the unconscious, but under different names—automaticity,... Read More

Claudia Luiz
The Making of A Psychoanalyst
Studies in Emotional Education
Routledge, 2018

New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network June 5, 2020 Christopher Russell

The eight stories in The Making of A Psychoanalyst: Studies in Emotional Education (Routledge, 2018) are composites of clinical material highlighting familiar emotional conflicts found in treatment. Dr. Claudia Luiz invites the reader into session with her as she demonstrates “how two human beings interact with each other to effect... Read More

Christina Griffin, “The Regulars’ Table: Conversations with Ferenczi” (IP Books, 2018)

Christina Griffin
The Regulars' Table
Conversations with Ferenczi
International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018

New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network May 29, 2020 Christopher Russell

From the Central Coast of California to Baden-Baden, Toronto, Siracusa, and Budapest, Christina Griffin‘s The Regulars’ Table: Conversations with Ferenczi (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018) is about deep enduring friendships; then and now. Inspired by Ignotus’ eulogy for Ferenczi, Christina Griffin decided to emulate his experiments in thought transference. This experience... Read More

Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna
Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society

Routledge, 2019

New Books in Law New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network May 26, 2020 Christopher Bandini

The areas of the Law and psychoanalysis overlap in interesting and compelling fashion in the new book, Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society (Routledge, 2019) edited by Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna. The book is far reaching and covers where the law and psychoanalysis intersect in diverse areas such as family dynamics,... Read More

Noëlle McAfee, “Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics” (Columbia UP, 2019)

Noëlle McAfee
Fear of Breakdown
Psychoanalysis and Politics
Columbia University Press, 2019

New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Science & Technology May 22, 2020 Tracy Morgan

In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened. Taking her cue from Winnicott, Noëlle McAfee’s Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics (Columbia University Press, 2019), explores the implications of breakdown fears for... Read More

Nancy J. Chodorow, “The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye” (Routledge 2020)

Nancy J. Chodorow
The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye
Toward an American Independent Tradition
Routledge, 2020

New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Sociology New Books Network May 20, 2020 Sebastian Thrul

In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge 2020) Professor Nancy J. Chodorow gives name and shape to an American middle group between the ego psychological and interpersonal approaches: The American Independent Tradition or intersubjective ego psychology. Through her careful exegesis of theoreticians like... Read More

Fulvio Mazzacane
Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis

Routledge, 2018

New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network May 13, 2020 Philip Lance

Psychoanalytic theory has developed very rapidly in recent years across many schools of thought. One of the most popular builds on the work of Wilfred Bion. Fulvio Mazzacane’s new book Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2018) provides a concise and comprehensive introductory overview of the latest thinking in... Read More

Adrian Johnston, “Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy ” (Northwestern UP, 2013)

Adrian Johnston
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism
The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy
Northwestern University Press, 2013

New Books in Critical Theory New Books in French Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Secularism May 11, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

In the contemporary philosophical landscape, a variety of materialist ontologies have appeared, all wrestling with various political and philosophical questions in light of a post-God ontology. Entering into this discussion is Adrian Johnston, with his 3-volume Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, an attempt to develop a systematic and thoroughly atheistic... Read More