Evolutions in Psychoanalysis Book Series

Under the editorship of Melvin Bronstein and Daniel Goldin, the Evolutions in Psychoanalysis book series provides a shared space for writers who are eager to revisit formative psychoanalytical ideas in often innovative new ways. The word ‘evolve’ literally means ‘to unroll’, and the contemporary use of the latter term suggests that something new can be revealed through a process of incremental unravelling. As a definition of both the aspirations of this series and of psychoanalysis itself, this understanding exemplifies the possibility that one can take apart by creating and create by taking apart.   

The volumes in this series do not represent a particular school of psychoanalytic thought, but rather comprise and encourage new voices from all schools and spaces – across time and geographical location – in the knowledge that brilliant thinkers and ideas can emerge from unforeseen places. The series does also encompass the editors’ interests in how contemporary psychoanalysis intersects with society and culture at large; differing analyses of the micro-processes that take place in clinical encounters; and the influence of other disciplines – such as philosophy and infant-research – upon the field of psychoanalysis, and welcomes contributions to these and other topics.  

Of critical importance to the formation of this series is its aspiration to foreground voices from marginalized ethnic groups, for the vitality and creativity they offer which is so necessary to the field, and to continue in the direction of redress and repair for the omissions and exclusions of the past.