Psychology
The American Optic
Brings together critical race theory and psychoanalysis to examine African American and other diasporic African cultural texts.
Maimonides' Cure of Souls
Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides’ work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.
Final Acts
Analyzes contemporary memoirs of terminal illness from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Anachronism and Its Others
Traces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.
A Psychotherapy of Love
Illuminates the role of empathetic love in psychotherapy.
A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy
A therapist's guide to psychotherapy, spirituality, and self-development.
Fire Along the Sky
A wildly entertaining historical adventure, deep inside the crucible in which America was forged.
The Very Thought of Education
A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens.
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre.
Literary Remains
Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.
Eros and Ethics
A comprehensive examination of Lacan’s seminar on ethics.
Aesthetics of Anxiety
Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.
The Revelation of the Breath
Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath.
The Trauma Controversy
Provides multiple and accessible perspectives on trauma both as a condition and as a cultural phenomenon.
Perpetual Adolescence
Explores the arrested development of American culture.
A World of Fragile Things
Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called “the art of living.”
Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems
Introduces the concept of obliviousness to the consideration of family systems—what do families choose to ignore and why and how they do so.
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.
Depression and Narrative
How the story of depression gets told in print, on screen, and online.
French Interpretations of Heidegger
A sustained philosophical engagement with significant and creative French interpreters of Heidegger.
The Participatory Turn
Cuts through traditional debates to argue that religious phenomena are cocreated by human cognition and a generative spiritual power.
When Play Was Play
A celebration of childhood pick-up games.
Death in the Classroom
Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.
Imitation and Education
Brings together current research in philosophy, cognitive science, and education to uncover and criticize the traditional assumptions of how and why we should learn through imitation.
Romantic Psychoanalysis
How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.