How is psychoanalytic theory relevant in the modern age? How does it inform and interact with culture? From Freud to Lacan, this insightful text clearly explores key psychoanalytic writers, core…

Psychoanalytic theory offers an interesting insight into the study of culture and the arts. This unique book explains how clinical concepts inform and engage with key issues throughout the humanities…

This critical exploration of issues of gender in psychoanalysis acknowledges and updates the complexity of theory and writing in this area, particularly the way sexual differences can only be thought…

This work introduces core psychoanalytic concepts. It shows both the concept’s place in the field as well as its more general cultural usage. It can be read cover to cover…

How do boys see themselves? Their peers? The adult world? What are their aspirations? Their fears? This book centres on a study in which boys talked openly about such issues…

Psychodynamic Perspectives on Abuse brings together psychoanalytic psychotherapists, political theorists, organisational consultants, social workers and social policy academics to explore the nature and ramifications of abuse in a new light…