Fantasy and Social Movements

J Ormrod

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• It is sometimes assumed that fantasizing stands in contrast to activism. This book, however, argues that fantasy plays a central role in social moveme... Lees meer

Climate Psychology

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This book investigates the psycho-social phenomenon which is society's failure to respond to climate change. It analyses the non-rational dimensions o... Lees meer

Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• For decades the global gaze on South African society invariably focused on it as a symbol of the inevitable excesses of social engineering, racism and... Lees meer

Those Who Come After

Stephen Frosh

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This book explores the legacies of suffering in relation to 'those who come after' - the descendants of victims, survivors and perpetrators of traumat... Lees meer

The Play of Political Culture, Emotion and Identity

Candida Yates

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• Offering a uniquely 'psycho-cultural' take on the emotional dynamics of UK political culture this book uses theories and research in psychoanalysis, c... Lees meer

Donald Winnicott and the Politics of Care

Joanna Kellond

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This book explores the significance of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott's ideas for contemporary debates about care. Locating Winnicott in relation to a... Lees meer

Narcissism and Its Discontents

J Walsh

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• Narcissism and Its Discontents challenges the received wisdom that narcissism is only destructive of good social relations. By building on insights fr... Lees meer

Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Myth in Contemporary Culture

Angie Voela

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This book examines the use of myth in contemporary popular and high culture, and proposes that the aporetic subject, the individual that 'does not kno... Lees meer

Communist Ghosts

Magda Schmukalla

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This book explores post-communist thresholds as materializations of a specific crisis of modern European identity that was caused by the existence and... Lees meer

Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most import... Lees meer

Freud on Time and Timelessness

Kelly Noel-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• Time and timelessness are fundamental principles of psychoanalysis yet Freud does not present a consolidated theory of temporality. In this book Kelly... Lees meer

Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement

U Hadar

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• What is the ethical anchoring of psychoanalysis? What does it mean to be a subject and how is it different from being a self? Is analytic psychotherap... Lees meer

Anti-Semitism at the Limit

Benjamin B Strosberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a ... Lees meer

Working-Through Collective Wounds

Raluca Soreanu

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• Working-through Collective Wounds discusses how collectives mourn and create symbols. It challenges ideas of the irrational and destructive crowd, and... Lees meer

Fomenting Political Violence

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This book offers a psychosocial perspective on political violence, employing a strong current of psychoanalytic thinking. In the course of its chapter... Lees meer

Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing

Jo Whitehouse-Hart

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• Most people have, at some point in their lives, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of... Lees meer

After Lockdown, Opening Up

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This edited volume examines the psychosocial transformations experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, and envisions those that might lea... Lees meer

Death at Work

Kjetil Moen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This book explores how, in encounters with the terminally ill and dying, there is something existentially at stake for the professional, not only the ... Lees meer

The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism

Liam Gillespie

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism interrogates the emergence of far-right nationalist 'defence leagues' in Australia and the UK. Thr... Lees meer

Traces of Violence and Freedom of Thought

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless manifestations. The essays en... Lees meer

Working-Through Collective Wounds

Raluca Soreanu

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• Working-through Collective Wounds discusses how collectives mourn and create symbols. It challenges ideas of the irrational and destructive crowd, and... Lees meer

Traces of Violence and Freedom of Thought

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless manifestations. The essays en... Lees meer

(Post)Apartheid Conditions

D Hook

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• What are the psychical mechanisms that underlie a given social formation? (Post)apartheid Conditions investigates this question by exploring a series ... Lees meer

New Voices in Psychosocial Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Psychosocial
• Psychosocial studies in the UK is a diverse area of work characterised by innovation in theory and empirical research. Its extraordinary liveliness is... Lees meer