Psychology and the Other
About the Book Series
The Psychology and the Other Book Series highlights creative work at the intersections between psychology and the vast array of disciplines relevant to the human psyche. The interdisciplinary focus of this book series brings psychology, then, into conversation with continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, and social/critical theory. The cross-fertilization of theory and practice, encompassing such a range of perspectives, encourages the exploration of alternative paradigms and newly articulated vocabularies that speak to human identity, freedom, and suffering. Thus, we are encouraged to reimagine our encounters with difference, our notions of the "other," and what constitutes therapeutic modalities. The study and practices of mental health practitioners, psychoanalysts, and scholars in the humanities will be sharpened, enhanced, and illuminated by these vibrant conversations, representing pluralistic methods of inquiry, including those typically identified as psychoanalytic, humanistic, qualitative, phenomenological, or existential.
Madness in Experience and History: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology and Foucault’s Archaeology
1st Edition
By Hannah Lyn Venable
November 02, 2021
Madness in Experience and History brings together experience and history to show their impact on madness or mental illness. Drawing on the writings of two twentieth-century French philosophers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, the author pairs a phenomenological approach with an ...
Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Sheldon George, Derek Hook
July 09, 2021
This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism in ways that go beyond traditional modes of psychoanalytic thought. Featuring contributions by ...
Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation towards the Other in Community Mental Health Care: Levinas, Wonder and Autoethnography
1st Edition
By Catherine A. Racine
April 27, 2021
Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation Toward the Other in Community Mental Health Care offers a rare and intimate portrayal of the moral process of a mental health clinician that interrogates the intractable problem of systemic dehumanisation in community mental health care and looks to the notion of...
Trust and Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Study in Human Nature
1st Edition
By Michael Oppenheim
April 27, 2021
This interdisciplinary text brings together perspectives from leading psychoanalysts and modern Jewish philosophers to offer a unique investigation into the dynamic between the fundamental trust in the self, other persons, and the world, and the devastating force of emotional trauma. Chapters ...
Dante and the Other: A Phenomenology of Love
1st Edition
Edited
By Aaron B. Daniels
December 30, 2020
Dante and the Other brings together noted and emerging Dante scholars with theologians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists, bridging the Florentine’s premodern world to today’s postmodern context. Exploring how alterity has become a potent symbol in religion, philosophy, politics, ...
Eros Crucified: Death, Desire, and the Divine in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Religion
1st Edition
By Matthew Clemente
November 25, 2019
Bringing contemporary philosophers, theologians, and psychoanalysts into dialogue with works of art and literature, this work provides a fresh perspective on how humans can make sense of suffering and finitude and how our existence as sexual beings shapes our relations to one another and the divine...
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear
1st Edition
By Donna Orange
September 30, 2019
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear explores the importance of listening, being able to speak, and those who are silenced, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, it focuses on those voices silenced either collectively or individually by trauma, culture, ...
Race, Rage, and Resistance: Philosophy, Psychology, and the Perils of Individualism
1st Edition
Edited
By David M. Goodman, Eric R. Severson, Heather Macdonald
August 29, 2019
This timely collection asks the reader to consider how society’s modern notion of humans as rational, isolated individuals has contributed to psychological and social problems and oppressive power structures. Experts from a range of disciplines offer a complex understanding of how humans are ...
Schelling, Freud, and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis: Uncanny Belonging
1st Edition
By Teresa Fenichel
September 17, 2018
Schelling, Freud, and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis provides a long-overdue dialogue between two seminal thinkers, Schelling and Freud. Through a sustained reading of the sublime, mythology, the uncanny, and freedom, this book provokes the reader to retrieve and revive the shared ...
Unconscious Incarnations: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives on the Body
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian W. Becker, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, David M. Goodman
April 03, 2018
Unconscious Incarnations considers the status of the body in psychoanalytic theory and practice, bringing Freud and Lacan into conversation with continental philosophy to explore the heterogeneity of embodied life. By doing so, the body is no longer merely an object of scientific inquiry but also a...