New Books Network Podcast

Psychoanalysis May 27, 2023

Misogyny in Psychoanalysis

Michaela Chamberlain

Hosted by Christopher Russell

Today I talked to Michaela Chamberlain, author of Misogyny in Psychoanalysis (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022) Chamberlain’s book is a product of “cumulative trauma” whose original starting point was an interest …

Psychoanalysis May 26, 2023

"Don't Be Sad When I'm Gone"

A Memoir of Loss and Healing in Buenos Aires

Beatriz Dujovne

Hosted by Lexa Rosean

The monumental sense of dislocation we experience after losing a loved one can be life-altering. There is no script for grieving–each individual passes through their own phases of mourning. In …

Sociology May 7, 2023

Fearing Together

Ethics for Insecurity

Ami Harbin

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing …

Psychology April 12, 2023

The Ethical Lives of Clients

Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy

William J. Doherty

Hosted by Karyne Messina

Clients often seek therapists’ input for dealing with ethical dilemmas in their lives, but there is little guidance for therapists in how to do this. The Ethical Lives of Clients …

Psychology March 23, 2023

Capitalism and Desire

The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

Todd McGowan

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte

If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you. My guest …

Psychoanalysis March 16, 2023

Plato's Ghost

Liminality and Psychoanalysis

Nilofer Kaul

Hosted by Ashis Roy

Psychoanalytic encounters are filled with the unknowability of two unconscious minds meeting. Here one may forge a link that enables the process of meaning-making, or else it can become the …

Psychoanalysis March 13, 2023

Richard M. Billow's Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis and Group Process

Changing Our Minds

Tzachi Slonim, ed.

Hosted by J. J. Mull

On this episode, J.J. Mull speaks with Richard Billow and Tzachi Slonim about Richard M. Billow’s Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis and Group Process: Changing Our Minds (Routledge, 2021). This volume presents …

Psychology March 4, 2023

Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development

An Intersubjective, Object Relations Listening Perspective on Self, Attachment, Trauma, and Reality

Carl H. Shubs

Hosted by Karyne Messina

Traditionally, trauma has been defined as negatively impacting external events, with resulting damage. This book puts forth an entirely different thesis: trauma is universal, occurring under even the best of …

Psychoanalysis January 21, 2023

Resurgence of Global Populism

A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy

Karyne E. Messina

Hosted by Ashis Roy

Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy (Routledge, 2022) provides a psychoanalytic perspective to the global implications of the populist movement …

Psychoanalysis January 18, 2023

Exigent Psychoanalysis

The Interventions of Jean Laplanche

Gila Ashtor

Hosted by Christopher Russell

In Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge, 2021), Dr. Gila Ashtor “strives to draw out the discipline’s conceptual underpinnings by putting them in conversation with Laplanche’s comprehensive innovations.” Ashtor …

Psychoanalysis January 11, 2023

Playing at Work

Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on Technique

Vincenzo Bonaminio

Hosted by Tracy Morgan

Vincenzo Bonaminio, the Italian psychoanalyst and ambassador to the Winnicottian tradition offers us a clinical feast in his new publication, Playing at Work: Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on …

Medicine December 28, 2022

On Learning to Heal

or, What Medicine Doesn't Know

Ed Cohen

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best …

Psychoanalysis December 24, 2022

W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind

A Contemporary Introduction

Annie Reiner

Hosted by Philip Lance

Annie Reiner’s introduction to Wilfred Bion’s theories of mind presents Bion’s intricate ideas in an accessible, original way without compromising their complexity. Reiner uses comparisons to painting, literature and philosophy …

Psychology December 22, 2022

A Study of Malignant Narcissism

Personal and Professional Insights

Richard Wood

Hosted by Karyne Messina

A Study of Malignant Narcissism: Personal and Professional Insights (Routledge, 2022) offers a unique insight into malignant narcissism, exploring both its personal and professional aspects and constructing a theoretical framework …

Psychology December 13, 2022

Sexuality Beyond Consent

Risk, Race, Traumatophilia

Avgi Saketopoulou

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023) calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The …

Psychology December 12, 2022

The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof

Austin Ratner

Hosted by Karyne Messina

A clear and engaging call-to-arms to Freudians everywhere and a fresh diagnosis of the major problem confronting psychoanalysis today, Austin Ratner's book The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof (Ipbooks, 2018) presents exciting new …

Writ Large November 18, 2022

On Sigmund Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality"

A Discussion with George Paul Meiu

George Paul Meiu

Hosted by Zachary Davis

Sigmund Freud is probably best known as the founder of psychoanalysis. In his clinical practice, he established theories on how the human psyche develops and behaves, and his 1905 text …

Psychoanalysis November 17, 2022

Hatred of Sex

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean

Hosted by Matthew Pieknik

Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of …

Psychology November 7, 2022

The Borderline Culture

Intensity, Jouissance, and Death

Željka Matijasević

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte

Borderline personality disorder is no longer a secret. Many people who are not therapists know what it is and see it as a fitting description for their personal experience. But …

Psychoanalysis October 17, 2022

Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe & Social Action

Robin McCoy Brooks

Hosted by Roy Barsness

Robin McCoy Brooks' book Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe, and Social Action (Routledge, 2021) uses psychoanalytic theory to explore how political subjectivity comes about within the context of global catastrophe, via the emergence of collective …