New Books in Psychoanalysis

Roger Frie, "Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)

03 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Erich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, a...

Must We Drown in the Wake? Notes on Addressing Racism in Psychoanalytic Institutes

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tracy Morgan is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC seeing individuals, couples and groups. She is a member of the faculty at CMPS, a founding ...

Stephen Grosz, "Love's Labour: How We Break and Make the Bonds of Love" (Vintage, 2026)

06 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to love why do we find things so difficult? Drawing on over forty years of candid and surprising conversations with his patients, Stephe...

Osamu Kitayama and Jhuma Basak, "Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India" (Routledge, 2025)

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the New Books Network, I sat down with the contributors of Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and I...

Marilyn Charles, "Echoes of Trauma: Meaning and Identity in Psychoanalysis" (American Psychological Association, 2025)

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Echoes of Trauma: Meaning and Identity in Psychoanalysis (American Psychological Association, 2025) intricately weaves psychoanalytic and developmen...

Joanna Bourke, "Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker" (Reaktion, 2026)

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Why do certain women become icons of evil? Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker (Reaktion, 2026) by Professor Joanna Bourke offe...

Mari Ruti and Gail N. Newman, "The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism" (Columbia UP, 2025)

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In their book The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism (Columbia UP, 2025) Mari Ruti and Gail N. Newman offer our beleaguered souls a breather. T...

Erica Lorentz, "Body As Shadow: Jung's Embodied Individuation Process" (Karnac, 2026)

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Body as Shadow: Jung’s Method of Embodied Healing is Jungian analyst Erica Lorentz’s passionate, clinically grounded argument that Jung’s psych...

Joseph Scalia III and Lynne S. Scalia, "Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education" (Routledge, 2025)

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education (Routledge, 2025) provides insight into the antagonism an...

Juliane Maxwald, "Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today I spoke with Juliane Maxwald abut her new book Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality (Taylor & Francis...

Anna Fishzon, "The Impossible Return - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning" (Routledge, 2025)

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today I spoke with Anna Fishzon about her new book The Impossible Return - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning (Ro...

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How well do we understand our relationship to sex? According to Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, authors of the new book Hatred of Sex (University of Nebr...

Jamieson Webster, "Disorganisation & Sex" (Divided Publishing, 2022)

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The first collection of essays from the author of the Life and Death of Psychoanalysis, Stay, Illusion! with Simon Critchley and Conversion Disord...

Jane G. Goldberg, "Wired for Why: How We Think, Feel, and Make Meaning" (2025)

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

WIRED FOR WHY: How We Think, Feel and Make Meaning. (Self-Published 2025) spans eighteen chapters exploring everything from how we manage to stay aliv...

Dominique: the Case of an Adolescent interview with Jamieson Webster

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Psychoanalysts Jamieson Webster and Jordan Osserman discuss the recently republished, revised translation of Françoise Dolto's Dominique: The Case ...

Ashis Roy, "Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-muslim Relationships" (Yoda Press, 2024)

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when an analyst conducts interviews—and I am not speaking here about interviewing other analysts as we do at NBiP, but rather what happ...

Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Step into the unsettling world of E.T.A. Hoffmann with translator Peter Wortsman to explore “The Sandman”—a tale that haunted Freud enough t...

Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, j...

Jon Mills, "End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jon Mills, has had an impressive career as practicing professional, researcher, educator and writer in the psychology and psychoanalytic field. H...

The Unconscious Calculus of Justice: Racial Bias in Legal Outcomes

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of “A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Racism in America” takes a deep dive into the disturbing legal outcomes of state-sanctioned viole...

Vanessa Sinclair et al., "The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2024) is an exploration of psychoanalysis' often complicat...

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Lapla...

Tom Wooldridge, "Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2022) presents an accessible introduction to the conceptualization and treatment of eating...

Madness & Acute Religious Experiences, with Richard Saville-Smith

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Host Pierce Salguero sits down with Richard Saville-Smith, an independent scholar of madness, religion, and psychiatry. We discuss Richard’s book A...

Eli Zaretsky, “Political Freud: A History” (Columbia UP, 2015)

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Back in the early 70s, Eli Zaretsky wrote for a socialist newspaper and was engaged to review a recently released book, Psychoanalysis and Feminism by...

Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sex...

Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1977, The Combahee River Collective, a group of Black American feminists issued a statement communicating the harrowing following: “The psycholo...

Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’...

The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Karyne Messina and Dr. Felicia Powell-Williams, the host and co-host of “Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Racism in America” sponsored by The Am...

Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee eds., "Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories" (Karnac Books, 2025)

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories (Karnac Books, 2025) contains eighteen moving tales of disparate Jewish lives from Eliat Aram, Leslie ...

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

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, alread...

Jack Black and Joseph S Reynoso eds., "Sport and Psychoanalysis: Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears" (Lexington Books, 2024)

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears (Lexington Books, 2024) explores the intersection...

David P. Celani, "Ronald Fairbairn: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this concise and introductory book, David Celani examines the work of Ronald Fairbairn, one of the pioneers of Object Relations Theory. Ronald Fai...

Introducing The Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Princeton University Press is thrilled to share news of a major new initiative: the publication of The Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung. ...

Misogynoir and the Psychic Life of Race: Projective Identification, Cultural Authority, and the Black Feminine

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The discussion explored the concept of “misogynoir” and its impact on Black women, including the ways in which societal expectations and cultural ...

Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, "Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 (Edinburgh UP, 2024) studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that these p...

Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I interviewed Jan Borowicz about Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders (Routledge, 2024). "...

Psychoanalytic Defenses and the Battle Over America's Classrooms

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode delves into the intense conflicts surrounding race, history, and education in America, asking why classrooms have become such volatile ...

Gohar Homayounpour, "Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning" (Routledge, 2022)

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Matthew Pieknik and Christopher Russell speak with Gohar Homayounpour about her book Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning ...

What it Means to Forget

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The recent removal of information about Black, Indigenous, and female military personnel from the Arlington National Cemetery’s website exemplifies ...

Richard Reichbart, "The Anatomy of a Psychotic Experience: A Personal Account of Psychosis and Creativity" (Ipbooks, 2022)

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Anatomy of a Psychotic Experience (Ipbooks, 2022), psychoanalyst Richard Reichbart recounts a psychotic experience when he was in his thirties j...

Adrian Keith Perkel, "Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach" (Routledge, 2023)

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I began my discussion with Dr. Adrian Perkel about his new book Unlocking The Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific ...

When People Can't Listen

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Karyne Messina, host of this series, and Dr. Felecia Powell-Williams, the co-host, talked about what happens when people can’t listen. They dis...

Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and i...

Peter Shabad, "Passion, Shame, and the Freedom to Become: Seizing the Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2024)

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Passion, Shame, and the Freedom to Become: Seizing the Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2025), by Peter Shabad, examines how humans can o...

Eugene W. Holland, "Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism" (SUNY Press, 2024)

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism (SUNY Press, 2024) argues that capitalism fosters sadism and masochism--...

Jamieson Webster, "On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe" (Catapult, 2025)

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive. And alth...

Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode my co-host and I had planned to talk about how the new Trump administration could create unity in America. The episode title had been,...

Carl Waitz, "Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective" (Routledge, 2024)

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I spoke to Dr. Carl Waitz about his new book Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective (Routledge...

Hila Yahalom, "A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo" (Routledge, 2024)

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo (Routledge, 2024) proposes a new perspective on nar...

Ahron Friedberg, "Life Studies in Psychoanalysis: Faces of Love" (Routledge, 2023)

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Life Studies in Psychoanalysis: Faces of Love (Routledge, 2023), by Dr. Ahron Friedberg, consists of four psychoanalytic studies each representing a...

Udo Hock, "The Enigmatic Messages of the Other: On the Work of Jean Laplanches" (Psychosozial-Verlag, 2024)

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Udo Hock's Die rätselhaften Botschaften des Anderen. Zum Werk Jean Laplanches (The enigmatic messages of the other. On the work of Jean Laplanche)...

Hélène Tessier, "The Vocabulary of Laplanche" (PUF, 2024)

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Vocabulaire de Laplanche (PUF, 2024), edited by the renowned scholar and analyst, Hélène Tessier, several of the key readers of Jean Laplanche'...

Jan Abram, "The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic Clinical Essays on Psychic Survival-Of-The-Object" (Routledge, 2021)

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Clinician and psychoanalyst Jan Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object. She extends Winn...

Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)

18 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amrita Narayanan is a practicing Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D. 2007) and Psychoanalyst (Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 2019). She is the author of Wo...

Roberta Satow, "Our Time Is Up" (Ipbooks, 2024)

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Roberta Satow about her new book Our Time Is Up (Ipbooks, 2024). In 1895 Freud noticed that his case h...

Negative Life

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay talk about negative life, which names the misalignment of individual and species survival, as a condition of...

Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We interview Dr. Joel Whitebook, philosopher and psychoanalyst about his book Freud: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge UP, 2017). Dr. Whitebook w...

Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical...

James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man” is a powerful short story that describes the life of Jesse, a 42-year-old white police officer whose exp...

Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studies...

Desy Safán-Gerard, "Chaos and Control: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Unfolding Creative Minds" (Routledge, 2018)

28 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Chaos and Control: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Unfolding Creative Minds (Routledge, 2018), psychoanalyst and painter Desy Safan-Gerard expl...

Robert Caper, "Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious" (Routledge, 2020)

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious (Routledge, 2020) is Robert Caper's most recen...

Karyne E Messina, "A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia: Searching for Truth" (Routledge, 2024)

08 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia: Searching for Truth (Routledge, 2024) provides psychoanalytic in...

How Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense Affected the 2024 Presidential Campaign and Election

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Even though this is not a political show, today we will be talking about the ways in which mechanisms of defense effected both parties in the 2024 c...

Emily Dinova, "The Antagonist" (Bruce Scivally, 2024)

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I spoke with Emily Dinova about her new novel The Antagonist (Bruce Scivally, 2024). Dinova, a psychoanalytic candidate working towards a l...

Steven J. Sandage and Brad D. Strawn, "Spiritual Diversity in Psychotherapy: Engaging the Sacred in Clinical Practice" (APA, 2021)

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Although once marginalized in the field of psychotherapy, spirituality and religion have now become established ethical considerations in clinical res...

Anneli Jefferson, "Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?" (Routledge, 2024)

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology ...

Stijn Vanheule, "Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers" (Other Press, 2024)

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked with Stijn Vanheule about Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers (Other Press, 2...

Derek Hook, “Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2018)

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” shed light on Lacan’s maxim, “The unconscious is structured like a ...

Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man was James Baldwin who insisted on telling the trut...

Sandra Buechler, "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living" (Routledge, 2019)

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sandra Buechler joins hosts Christopher Bandini and Tracy Morgan to discuss her latest book, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressi...

Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton, "Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

05 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A serious illness often changes the way others see us. Few, if any, relationships remain the same. The sick become more dependent on partners and fami...

Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and sup...

Classic: Michael J. Diamond, "Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood" (Routledge, 2021)

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his new book Masculinity and its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood (Routledge, 2021), Michael J. Diamond...

Corinne Masur, "How Children Grieve: What Adults Miss, and What They Can Do to Help" (Alcove Press, 2024)

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An award-winning childhood grief expert shares clinically-informed advice for supporting kids and teens through difficult times--from family deaths an...

Vic Sedlak, "The Psychoanalyst's Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots: The Emotional Development of the Clinician" (Routledge, 2019)

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts enter an emotional relationship when they treat a patient; no matter how experienced they may be, their personalit...

Mariana Craciun, "From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy (U Chicago Press, 2024) offers an examination of how novice psychiatris...

How Mechanisms of Psychoanalytic Defense Perpetuate Racism in America

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The third podcast in this series focuses on an article written by Dr. Dionne Powell who participated in the 2014 documentary, “Black Psychoanalysts...

Barnaby Barratt, "Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst" (Routledge, 2019)

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst (Routledge, 2019), Barnaby Barratt illuminates a new perspective on the radicality of g...

Donald Moss, “At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2018)

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does Donald Moss have against common sense, Captain Obvious, sincerity, and everything duh!? At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psy...

Sudhir Kakar, "The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations" (Karnac, 2024)

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast, Ashis Roy (Psychoanalyst (IPA) and author of the recently published book Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Mus...

Dianne Elise, "Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field" (Routledge, 2019)

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Dianne Elise about her book Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field (Routledge, 2019). To be in the presence o...

The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Using one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s major ideas as a springboard for their discussion, “The truth will set you free,” the host and co-host...

Avgi Saketopoulou, "Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia" (NYU Press, 2023)

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Avgi Saketopoulou about her book Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023). My conversation with Dr....

Adam Phillips, "On Giving Up" (FSG, 2024)

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up o...

John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, 2024)

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how p...

A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The first podcast in this series was inspired by a documentary film made in 2014 called “Black Analysts Speak” as well as some of the findings i...

Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Marxism and psychoanalysis have a rich and complicated relationship to one another, with countless figures and books written on the possible intersect...

Madman in the White House?

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Did Woodrow Wilson's daddy issues cause World War II? And what might this teach us about our contemporary political plight? Jordan Osserman talks with...

Jean Petrucelli et al., "Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2022)

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2022) joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of femini...

Linda Hopkins and Steven Kuchuck, eds., "Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1967-1972" (Karnac, 2022)

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Masud Khan (1924-1989), was an eminent and, ultimately, scandalous British psychoanalyst who trained and practised in London during an important perio...

Peter A. Levine, "An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey" (Park Street Press, 2024)

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey (Park Street Press, 2024), renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing Peter A. Levine shares his pe...

Betty Milan, "Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account (Bloomsbury, 2023) brings together the first English translations of Why Lacan, Betty Milan's memoir of her a...

Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold, "A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: Talking Bodies" (Routledge, 2023)

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

By viewing psychoanalysis through the lens of embodiment, Brothers and Sletvold suggest a shift away from traditional concept-based theory and offer n...

Louis Rothschild, "Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities" (Karnac, 2023)

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I spoke with Dr. Louis Rothschild about his new book Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities (Karnac, 2024...

Dominique Scarfone, "The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche (Unconscious in Translation, 2023) compiles papers written by Dominique Scar...

Helena Vissing, "Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health" (Routledge, 2023)

27 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we spoke with Dr. Helena Vissing about her new book Somatic Maternal Healing Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental...

A Conversation with Austin Ratner, the New Editor of "The American Psychoanalyst"

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Austin Ratner has an interesting background. After graduating from medical school he decided to change careers. Rather than continuing in medicine he ...

Dhwani Shah, "The Analyst's Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference" (Karnac Books, 2022)

25 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I spoke with Dr. Dhwani Shah about his new book The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference (Karnac Books, 2022)....