Object Relations Podcast: Psychoanalytic Politics and the Myth of Neutrality
Samuel Kelly shares episode three of the four-part Object Relations podcast, on the politics of the psychoanalytic encounter
‘Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter’: Book Review
Lynn M. Somers reviews Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter (Yale University Press, 2021) by Philip Larratt-Smith, with an essay by Juliet Mitchell. In a welcome effort to foreground the material objects over the admittedly fascinating biography of
‘The Distance Cure’: Book Review
Laura Cushing-Harries reviews The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (The MIT Press, 2021) by Hannah Zeavin. Since Breuer and Freud first coined the phrase the ‘talking cure’ at the end of the nineteenth century, therapy
‘Critical Disability Studies and the Disabled Child’: Book Review
Andrew Godfrey-Meers reviews Critical Disability Studies and the Disabled Child: Unsettling Distinctions (Routledge, 2021) by Harriet Cooper.
Science Fiction and Psychology: Book Review
Beata Gubacsi reviews Gavin Miller’s Science Fiction and Psychology (Liverpool University Press, 2020). Gavin Miller and Anna McFarlane, introducing the BMJ’s Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities special issue as part of the 2016
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty – Book Review
What does the figure of the mother evoke in us? How does an engagement with this figure expose the persistence of colonial logics and global inequalities? Yianna Liatsos reviews Mothers by Jacqueline Rose. In
Review of ‘Psychoanalysis for the People: Free Clinics and the Social Mission of Psychoanalysis’
Ana Minozzo reviews the first edition of an international online conference that explored socially engaged psychoanalytic practices from across the world. The event was hosted by the Freud Museum in London during the weekend
‘Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy’: Book Review
Beata Gubacsi reviews Anthony M. Bean’s Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy (Routledge, 2018). Anthony M. Bean, as “psychologically minded video gamer” (6), reflects on the disparity between, on one hand, the
Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment (Review)
In this post, Christina Wilkins reviews Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment (London: Routledge, 2018), authored by Christopher Bollas. “We have changed.” (127) This simple sentence, uttered towards the
‘Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind’: Book Review
Deborah Snow Molloy reviews Benjamin H. Ogden’s Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind (Routledge: 2018) Benjamin H. Ogden’s Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind (2018) offers a direct challenge to