Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the École de la Cause Freudiennes annual conference in ...

Sigmund Freud was no stranger to controversy. He shocked many with his revolutionary theories on human development, desires and sexuality, and tran...

Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology-as witnessed by t...

What is care? The Care Factory consists of six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. ...

The Archaic takes as its major reference points C.G. Jung's classic essay, 'Archaic Man' (1930), and Ernesto Grassi's paper on 'Archaic Theories of...

The experience of loss is ubiquitous in human life, but its nature and impact have great variations. When loss is phase-specific, expected, and acc...

This book is a narrative in dialogue form in which the author, now an octogenarian who is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and a PhD in philosophy, d...

Like his other papers on technique, Freud's 1913 essay On beginning the treatment had an enduring influence on psychoanalysts for generations to co...

This book creates an awareness of our 'excessive' fear of mental pain: the ubiquitous abhorrence of inner distress functions as a gravitational for...