Books in the Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts series

Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir: Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood in India represents the best of Indian scholarship from emerging psychoanalytic thinkers and researchers on culture, family, politics and the future of India.

In A Three-Factor Model of Couples Therapy, the author presents a new schema of psychodynamic couples therapy that includes a three-factor model for understanding and treating couples. These three factors are: projective identification, couple object relations, and omnipotent control.

Women & Psychosis is an edited collection that examines the intersection of two marginalized identities, those of women and those deemed "psychotic". Told from a multitude of perspectives, Women & Psychosis brings multidisciplinary thought to the subject, from psychiatrists and clinicians tofirst-person perspectives of the women themselves.

Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the gendered experience of madness within patriarchal power structures. Spanning disciplines like mad studies, psychoanalysis, sociology, and critical theory, this collection explores the interaction between the social and the psyche as it relates to marginalized women's mental health.

Based on interviews with individuals who struggle with severe psychic distress, contributors to this edited collection critique conventional pharmaceutical and medicalized treatment and argue for the need to create facilitative spaces in which psychosocial and familial supports are offered as adjuncts to therapy.

In Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon, Amber M. Trotter explores processes of social change, highlights the role of ethics, and illuminates ways in which analytic theory and practice can disrupt contemporary American culture.

Revisioning War Trauma in Cinema: Uncoming Communities is timely, participating in the debate concerning trauma and representation, and offers a Lacanian augmentation to current understanding. The book considers and engages with mid-century thinking on the issue of disaster and community proposing a way forward through artistic invention.

Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis interrogates core psychoanalytical theoretical concepts concerning loss and femininity. Contributors apply different psychoanalytic perspectives to loss and femininity, focusing on the intersection of psychoanalysis, culture, and clinical work.

Shifa Haq traces the dynamics of mourning, collective trauma, and political resistance in personal accounts of mourners of the disappeared persons, providing insights into psyche-polis connection. By using a psychoanalytic lens, this book turns to individual cases to throw light on claims of affect and memory to re-imagine social suffering.

From Freud and the first generation of psychoanalysts in the late 1800s to Jesuit priest Ignancio Martin-Baro's writings in the 1970s, Daniel Jose Gaztambide introduces readers to the social justice leaders and movements that have defined the field of psychoanalysis and made it relevant to all classes and races.

Trauma and Repair is an interdisciplinary study of inequality and complex trauma. Annie Stopford's interview-based exploration of life in four specific low-income neighborhoods captures in sharp relief a complex trauma that has multiple sources, including intergenerational economic distress and repeated exposure to community violence.

Contributors to this edited collection use a psychoanalytic lens to examine the historical and political silencing of women as portrayed through Latin American art and literature.

Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis interrogates core psychoanalytical theoretical concepts concerning loss and femininity. Contributors apply different psychoanalytic perspectives to loss and femininity, focusing on the intersection of psychoanalysis, culture, and clinical work.