Psychological Issues
About the Book Series
The basic mission of Psychological Issues is to contribute to the further development of psychoanalysis as a science, as a respected scholarly enterprise, as a theory of human behavior, and as a therapeutic method.
Over the past 50 years, the series has focused on fundamental aspects and foundations of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, as well as on work in related disciplines relevant to psychoanalysis. Psychological Issues does not aim to represent or promote a particular point of view. The contributions cover broad and integrative topics of vital interest to all psychoanalysts as well as to colleagues in related disciplines. They cut across particular schools of thought and tackle key issues, such as the philosophical underpinnings of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theories of motivation, conceptions of therapeutic action, the nature of unconscious mental functioning, psychoanalysis and social issues, and reports of original empirical research relevant to psychoanalysis. The authors often take a critical stance toward theories and offer a careful theoretical analysis and conceptual clarification of the complexities of theories and their clinical implications, drawing upon relevant empirical findings from psychoanalytic research as well as from research in related fields.
The Editorial Board continues to invite contributions from social/behavioral sciences such as anthropology and sociology, from biologcal sciences such as physiology and the various brain sciences, and from scholarly humanistic disciplines such as philosophy, law, and ethics.
Mindscapes: The Psyche in the Landscape
1st Edition
By Vittorio Lingiardi
April 01, 2025
This book explores the links between the psyche and the landscape—on the continuum that runs from our mental world inside to our surrounding world outside. Our sense of self is shaped by our environment, while it also helps to create the environment we perceive. Looking to the fields of ...
Foucault Versus Freud: Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality
1st Edition
By Jerome C. Wakefield
July 05, 2024
In Foucault Versus Freud, Jerome C. Wakefield offers a novel analysis of one of the great intellectual clashes of our times, the attack on Sigmund Freud's influential sexual theories by the eminent French philosopher and historian of ideas Michel Foucault. Starting from Foucault's question, "...
Subjective Experience: Its Fate in Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind
1st Edition
By Morris N. Eagle
March 07, 2024
Morris N. Eagle explores the understanding and role of subjective experience in the disciplines of psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of mind. Elaborating how different understandings of subjective experience give rise to very different theories of the nature of the mind, Eagle then ...
Attachment, Sexuality, Power: Oedipal Theory as Regulator of Family Affection in Freud’s Case of Little Hans
1st Edition
By Jerome C. Wakefield
September 23, 2022
In Attachment, Sexuality, Power, Jerome C. Wakefield challenges established views of Freudian psychoanalysis by applying Foucault’s concept of ‘power/knowledge’ to Freud’s case of Little Hans, illuminating the role that Oedipal theory has played in reorganizing intimate family relationships. ...
Freud's Argument for the Oedipus Complex: A Philosophy of Science Analysis of the Case of Little Hans
1st Edition
By Jerome C. Wakefield
September 23, 2022
In this close reading of Freudian theory, Jerome C. Wakefield reconstructs Freud’s argument for the Oedipal theory of the psychoneuroses, placing the case of Little Hans into a philosophy-of-science context and critically rethinking the epistemological foundations of psychoanalysis. Wakefield ...
Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology
1st Edition
By Morris N Eagle
July 02, 2021
Winner of th 2023 American Board and Academy of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology (ABAPPP) Annual Award! This book aims to integrate different psychoanalytic schools and relevant research findings into an integrated psychoanalytic theory of the mind. A main claim explored here, is that a ...
Memory, Myth, and Seduction: Unconscious Fantasy and the Interpretive Process
1st Edition
By Jean-Georges Schimek, Deborah L. Browning
June 30, 2020
Memory, Myth, and Seduction reveals the development and evolution of Jean-Georges Schimek's thinking on unconscious fantasy and the interpretive process derived from a close reading of Freud as well as contemporary psychoanalysis. Contributing richly to North American psychoanalytic thought, ...
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice
1st Edition
By Joel Paris
January 28, 2019
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and clinical base, and to integrate its ideas with modern clinical psychology and psychiatry. While ...
Sex, Drugs and Creativity: Searching for Magic in a Disenchanted World
1st Edition
By Dustin Kahoud, Danielle Knafo
July 03, 2018
In Sex, Drugs, and Creativity: The Search for Magic in a Disenchanted World, Kahoud and Knafo take a close look at omnipotent fantasies in three domains: sex, drugs, and creativity. They demonstrate how these fantasies emerge and how artists draw on them both to create and destroy—sometimes ...
Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Donald L. Carveth
April 09, 2018
A video of Don Carveth discussing the book and its subject matter can be accessed using the following web URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7tGq0uEtU Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950s, psychoanalysis...
Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques
1st Edition
By Morris N. Eagle
December 05, 2017
In Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, alongside its companion piece Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, Morris N. Eagle asks: of the core concepts and formulations of psychoanalytic theory, which ones should be retained, which should be modified and in what ways, and which should ...
Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques
1st Edition
By Morris N. Eagle
November 13, 2017
In Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, alongside its companion piece Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Morris N. Eagle asks: of the core concepts and formulations of psychoanalytic theory, which ones should be retained, which should be modified and in what ways, and which should ...