Psychoanalytic theory offers an interesting insight into the study of culture and the arts. This unique book explains how clinical concepts inform and engage with key issues throughout the humanities…

This book explores the legacies of suffering in relation to ‘those who come after’ - the descendants of victims, survivors and perpetrators of traumatic events.

Psychosocial studies challenges the traditions of psychology and sociology from a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective. The book reflects this agenda in its varied theoretical and empirical strands, producing a newly contextualised…

This work introduces core psychoanalytic concepts. It shows both the concept’s place in the field as well as its more general cultural usage. It can be read cover to cover…

How do boys see themselves? Their peers? The adult world? What are their aspirations? Their fears? This book centres on a study in which boys talked openly about such issues…

Psychodynamic Perspectives on Abuse brings together psychoanalytic psychotherapists, political theorists, organisational consultants, social workers and social policy academics to explore the nature and ramifications of abuse in a new light…