Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
About the Book Series
The Philosophy & Psychoanalysis book series is dedicated to current developments and cutting edge research in the philosophical sciences, phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, logic, semiotics, cultural studies, social criticism, and the humanities that engage and enrich psychoanalytic thought through philosophical rigor. With the philosophical turn in psychoanalysis comes a new era of theoretical research that revisits past paradigms while invigorating new approaches to theoretical, historical, contemporary, and applied psychoanalysis. No subject or discipline is immune from psychoanalytic reflection within a philosophical context including psychology, sociology, anthropology, politics, the arts, religion, science, culture, physics, and the nature of morality. Philosophical approaches to psychoanalysis may stimulate new areas of knowledge that have conceptual and applied value beyond the consulting room reflective of greater society at large. In the spirit of pluralism, Philosophy & Psychoanalysis is open to any theoretical school in philosophy and psychoanalysis that offers novel, scholarly, and important insights in the way we come to understand our world.
Series Editor Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and psychologist; Honorary Professor, Department of Psychosocial & Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK, and on Faculty in the Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, and the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, USA. He is author of several books in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies.
A Philosophical Framework for Psychotherapy Integration: Psychoanalysis Meets Otherness
1st Edition
By Yael Peri Herzovich, Aner Govrin
February 09, 2026
In this thought‑provoking work, Yael Peri Herzovich and Aner Govrin challenge the long‑standing rivalry between psychoanalysis and other psychotherapeutic approaches, particularly cognitive‑behavioral therapy. They address a fundamental question: How can we facilitate genuine dialogue between these...
Selected Essays of Ladson Hinton: Psychoanalytic and Existential Reflections on Shame and Temporality
1st Edition
Edited
By Hessel Willemsen
January 22, 2026
This volume introduces readers to the work of Jungian psychoanalyst Ladson Hinton and his development of thought in the fields of psychoanalysis and existential philosophy throughout his career. Working as an analyst for nearly 50 years, strongly emphasizing humility with a central focus on shame ...
A Psycho-Political Analysis of Netanyahu’s Israel: The Israeli Anxiety
1st Edition
By Itzhak Benyamini
December 29, 2025
This book weaves together philosophical, theological, psychoanalytical, and political paradigms, providing both a historicization and a theorization of the Israeli experience and encompassing social-political events in recent history and life in Israel. Born out of Itzhak Benyamini’s subjective ...
Monstrosity and the Psychoanalytic Dimensions of the Uncanny
1st Edition
By Rodrigo Gonsalves
August 27, 2025
This accessible and meticulously researched book is a philosophical study dedicated to the psychoanalytic dimension of the uncanny and the discussions on monstrosity as fundamental concepts to address contemporary experiences of anguish, desire, suffering and alienation. Examining the uncanny in ...
R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century: Sanity, Therapy, Love
1st Edition
By M. Guy Thompson, Fritjof Capra, Douglas Kirsner
June 20, 2025
In this remarkable review of the seminal contribution of the Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, R. D. Laing, the three authors, each intimately acquainted with the subject matter, explore Laing’s intellectual and clinical legacy. Written from the perspective of a psychoanalyst, a scientist, ...
Philosophy Meets the Infant: How New Research Transforms the Understanding of Human Existence
1st Edition
By Stephen Langfur
May 10, 2025
Infancy research and philosophy explore “first things,” yet few books bring the two fields into contact. Stephen Langfur’s Philosophy Meets the Infant integrates groundbreaking infancy studies of the last 50 years to offer a fresh exploration of our drive for human connection. He begins with a new ...
William James and Sigmund Freud on the Mind: Saving Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Alfred I. Tauber
March 12, 2025
This is the first extended study comparing the philosophies of mind promoted by Sigmund Freud and William James, whose opposing views had profound influences on the development of twentieth-century philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology. Each asked, can the mind be scientifically ...
Jung and Spinoza: Passage Through The Blessed Self
1st Edition
By Robert Langan
February 19, 2025
This volume presents the first major study of C.G. Jung’s curious relationship with the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Although Jung scarcely mentions Spinoza in his work, there is an unmistakable accord between the core ideas of both thinkers, most notably regarding Spinoza’s theory of God and the ...
How Philosophy Changed Psychoanalysis: From Naïve Realism to Postmodernism
1st Edition
By Aner Govrin
October 22, 2024
Through this book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Aner Govrin demonstrates how psychoanalysis’ engagement with philosophy was crucial in the evolution of new psychoanalytic theories in three areas: perception of truth, developmental theories, and study of psychoanalytic treatment. Beginning with a ...
Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire: At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Tuley, PhD., John White, PhD.
April 11, 2024
This volume of essays, all authored by practicing Jungian psychoanalysts, examines and illuminates ways of working with individual analytic and therapeutic clients in the context of powerful and current collective forces, in the United States and beyond. One of Carl Jung’s central achievements was ...
Psychological and Philosophical Studies of Jung’s Teleology: The Future-Orientation of Mind
1st Edition
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By Garth Amundson
April 11, 2024
This important new volume addresses an underappreciated dimension of Jung’s work, his concept of the teleology, or “future-orientation”, of psychic reality. The work, authored by an international group of Jungian scholars, expands upon the socio-cultural, psychological, therapeutic, and ...
Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction: An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler
1st Edition
By Bret Alderman
December 06, 2023
In Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction, Bret Alderman puts forth a compelling thesis: Deconstruction tells a mythic story. Through an attentive examination of multiple texts and literary works, he elucidates this story in psychological and philosophical terms. Deconstruction, the method of...