Books and Articles

Members of APCS were surveyed and invited to submit names of books they found influential and that address the intersection between psychoanalysis, culture and society in their own areas of research and inquiry. This resource list will be expanded over time. Members are encouraged to submit new listings and revisions, as well as suggestions as to how this resource area might be organized so as to be most useful. Any members interested on working on developing this and other web resources for the APCS community are invited to contact Lita Crociani-Windland at Lita.Crociani-Windland@uwe.ac.uk.

Abel, E., Christian, B., and Moglen, H. (1987). Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. University of California Press.

Abraham, N. & Torok, M. (1994) The Shell and the Kernel (edited, translated and with an introduction by N Rand). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Agamben, G. (2005). Homo sacer: Sovereign power and bare life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

Altman, N. (2009) The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens (second edition). New York & London: Routledge.

Atkinson, J. (2002) Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia. Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press.

Badia, S. A. (2010). Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture. University of Illinois Press.

Bollas, C. (1992). Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self Experience. New York: Routledge.

Britzman, D. (2010).Freud and education. New York: Routledge.

Britzman, D. (2009). The very thought of education: Psychoanalysis and the impossible professions. Albany, N.Y. SUNY Press.

Britzman, D. (2006). Novel education: Psychoanalytic studies of learning and not learning. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Britzman, D. (2003). After-education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and psychoanalytic histories of learning. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Britzman, D. (1998). Lost subjects, contested objects: Toward a psychoanalytic inquiry of learning. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Bruhm, S. & Hurley, N. (2004). Curiouser: On the queerness of children. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Coles, P. (2011). The uninvited guest from the unremembered past. London: Karnac.

Danto, E. (2002). Freud’s free clinics: Psychoanalysis and social justice, 1918-1938. New York: Columbia University Press.

Davoine, F. & Gaudillière, J. (2004) History Beyond Trauma. New York: Other Press.

Derrida, J. (1994). Specters of Marx: The state of the debt, the work of mourning, and the new international. New York: Routledge.

Donzelot, J. (1979). The policing of families. New York: Pantheon

Faimberg, H. (2005) The Telescoping of Generations: Listening to the Narcissistic Links between Generations. London: Institute of Psychoanalysis & Routledge

Fanon, F. (1967) Black Skins, White Masks. New York: Grove Press.

Flax, J. (2010). Resonances of Slavery in Race/Gender Relations: Shadow at the Heart of American Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gordon, A. (1997). Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Henriques, J., Holloway, W., Urwin, C., Venn, C. & Walkerdine, V. (1984). Changing the subject: Psychology, social regulation, and subjectivity. London: Methuen

Lijtmaer, R. (2006). Black, White, Hispanic and both: Issues in Bi-racial Identity and its effects in the transference-countertransference. In: Moodley, R. and Palmer, S. (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy: Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice. London: Brunner-Routledge.

Lijtmaer, R. (2010 a). Migration, Cultural values and the Medical Model: Pittu Laungani and Psychotherapy Bridging East-West Psychology and Counseling. Eds. Roy Moodley, Aanchai Rai and Wassem Alladin. Sage Publications, India.

Lijtmaer, R. (2011). Nostalgia and Ambivalence: Reconnecting with the Past through Technology. In Global Migration, Technology and Transculturalism. Eds: Myna German and Padmini Banerjee, CIGS Lindenwood University Press.

Metzl, J. (2011). The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease. New York: Beacon Press.

Mitchell, J. (2000). Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis. New York: Basic Books, 2nd Revised Ed.

O’Loughlin, M. (Ed.). (2014). The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History and Memory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

O’Loughlin, M. & Charles, M. (Ed.). (2014). Fragments of trauma and the social production of suffering. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Painter, N. I. (2001). Southern History Across the Colorline. The University of North Carolina Press.

Perez Foster, Moskowitz, M. & Javier, R. (Eds.), Reaching across boundaries of culture and class: Widening the script of psychoanalysis. New Jersey: Jason Aronson.

Richards, B. (1984). Capitalism and infancy: Essays on psychoanalysis and politics. London: Free Association Books.

Spillers, H. J. (2003). Black, White and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Stein, A. (2013). Cupid’s Knife:Anger and Agency in Violent Relationships. New York: Routledge.

Stein. A. (2006). Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime. New York: Routledge.

Stockton, K. B. (2009). The queer child: On growing sideways in the twentieth century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Taubman, P. (2011). Disavowed knowledge: Psychoanalysis, education, and teaching. New York: Routledge.

Tate, C. (1998). Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race. Oxford University Press.

Walkerdine, V. (ed.) Challenging Subjects: Critical Psychology for a New Millennium. New York: Palgrave.

Watkins, M. & Shulman, H. (2008). Toward psychologies of liberation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Current Board Member Publications

Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
Re-Imagining Black Women: A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics NYU Press, 2021
Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics Palgrave MacMillan, 2007

Claude Barbe
Psychotherapy and Religion: Many Paths, One Journey with Marcella Weiner and Paul C. Cooper, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
Creative Dissent: Psychoanalysis in Evolution with Alan Roland, and Barry Ulanov (Eds), ABC-Clio Press, 2003
Separation Will, and Creativity: The Wisdom of Otto Rank (Ed) with Esther Menaker, Aronson, 1996
The Freedom to Inquire (Ed) with Esther Menaker, Aronson, 1995

Marilyn Charles
Echoes of Trauma: Meaning and Identity in Psychoanalysis APA Press, 2025
Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan Jason Aronson. 2012
Constructing Realities: Transformations through Myth and Metaphor Brill, 2004
Learning from experience: a guidebook for clinicians The Analytic Press, 2004
Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience The Analytic Press, 2003

Lita Crociani-Windland
Festivals, Affect and Identity: A Deleuzian Apprenticeship in Central Italian Communities Anthem European Studies, 2012

Jacob Johanssen
Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction with Steffen Krüger, Karnac, 2022
Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism with Bonni Rambatan, Zero Books, 2021
Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition Routledge, 2021
Psychoanalysis and Digital CultureAudiences, Social Media, and Big Data Routledge, 2019

Michael O’Loughlin www.michaeloloughlinphd.com
Precarities of 21st Century Childhoods: Critical Explorations of Time(s), Place(s), and Identities with Carol Owens & Louis Rothschild (Eds), Rowman & Littlefield, 2023
Lives interrupted: Psychiatric Narratives of Struggle and Resilience with Secil Arac-Orhun & Montana Queler, Lexington Books, 2019
And we forgave them: Stories from the struggle against apartheid in Venda, South Africa with Lilian T. Muofhe & Ndangeni P. Phaswana, UNISA [University of South Africa Press], 2018
The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Trauma, History and Memory (Ed) Rowman & Littlefield, 2015
Fragments of trauma and the social production of suffering: Trauma, History and Memory with Marilyn Charles (Eds.), Rowman & Littlefield, 2015
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families and Schools (Ed) Jason Aronson, 2013
The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Working with Children’s Emotional Lives (Ed) Jason Aronson, 2013
Psychodynamic psychotherapy in contemporary South Africa: Theory, practice, and policy perspectives with Cora Smith & Glenys Lobban (Eds.), Wits University Press, 2013
Imagining children otherwise: Theoretical and critical perspectives on childhood subjectivity with Richard T. Johnson (Eds.). Peter Lang Publishing, 2010
The subject of childhood Peter Lang Publishing, 2009

Carol Owens
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen with Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan (Eds), Routledge 2023
Studying Lacan’s Seminars: From Lack to Desire (Ed) Routledge, 2023
Studying Lacan’s Seminar VI: Dream, Symptom, and the Collapse of Subjectivity with Olga Cox Cameron, Routledge 2021
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: on and off the couch with Stephanie Swales, Routledge, 2020
Studying Lacan's Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire with Nadezhda Almqvist (Eds), Routledge 2018
Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children and Adolescents with Stephanie Farrelly Quinn, Routledge, 2017

Joseph Reynoso
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears with Jack Black (Eds) Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Annie Stopford
Trauma and Repair: Confronting Segregation and Violence in America Lexington Books, 2020

Stephanie Swales
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: on and off the couch with Carol Owens, Routledge, 2020
Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject Routledge, 2012

Angie Voela
Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s) with Jessica Datema (Eds) Routledge, 2022
After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19 - Studies in the Psychosocial with Darren Ellis (Eds) Palgrave McMillan, 2021
After Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Myth in Contemporary Culture Palgrave MacMillan, 2017
We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, the Family and Popular Culture with Roberta Garrett, Tracey Jensen (Eds) Cambridge Scholars, 2016

Past Board Member Publications

Ricardo Ainslie www.ricardoainslie.com
The Fight to Save Juárez:Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War University of Texas Press, 2013
Long Dark Road: The story of Bill King and Jasper’s murder University of Texas Press, 2004
The Road To Redemption. Jasper, Texas: The Healing of a Community In Crisis with Sarah Wilson, Pentagram, 2004
No Dancin’ In Anson: An American Story of Race and Social Change Jason Aronson, 1995
The Psychology of Twinship University of Nebraska Press, 1985 

Jennifer Friedlander
Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism Oxford University Press, 2017
Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, and Subversion State University of New York Press, 2008
Moving Pictures: Where the Police, the Press, and the Art Image Meet Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998

Jan Haaken
Psychiatry, Politics and PTSD: Breaking Down Routledge, 2021
Hard Knocks: Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling Routledge, 2010
Memory Matters: Understanding Recollections of Sexual Abuse with Paula Reavy, Routledge, 2010
Speaking Out: Women, War and the Global Economy with Ariel Ladum, Kayt Zundel, Seiza DeTarr & Caleb Heymann, Ooligan Press, 2005
Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back Rutgers University Press, 1998

Lynne Layton
Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes Routledge, 2020
Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting Routledge, 2006
Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory Routledge, 2004
Bringing the Plague. Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis Other Press, 2002
Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self NYU Press, 1986

Todd McGowan
Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn’t Try to Find Ourselves Penguin Random House, 2024
Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity Columbia University Press, 2024
The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
Enjoyment Right&Left Sublation Press, 2022
Universality and Identity Politics Columbia University Press, 2020
Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution Columbia University Press, 2019
Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (Diaeresis) Northwestern University Press, 2017
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets Columbia University Press, 2016
Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis University of Nebraska Press, 2013
Rupture: On the Emergence of the Political with Eisenstein, P, Northwestern University Press, 2012
The Fictional Christopher Nolan University of Texas Press, 2012
Out of Time: The Ethics of Atemporal Cinema University of Minnesota Press, 2011
The Impossible David Lynch Columbia University Press, 2007
The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan State University of New York Press, 2007
The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment State University of New York Press, 2004
Lacan and Contemporary Film with Kunkle, S. (Eds) The Other Press, 2004

Hilary Neroni
Realist Film Theory and Bicycle Thieves Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7 Bloomsbury Press, 2016
The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film Columbia University Press, 2015 
The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema State University of New York Press, 2005

Esther Rashkin
Psychoanalytic Interventions (Ed) Fordham, book series
Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative Princeton University Press, 1992
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture SUNY Press, 2008

Peter Redman
Studies in the Psychosocial (Ed) Springer, book series
Attachment: Sociology and Social Worlds (Ed) Manchester University Press, 2008

Mari Ruti
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue with Amy Allen, Bloomsbury, 2019
Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect Bloomsbury, 2018
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life Columbia University Press, 2018
The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects Columbia University Press, 2017
Feminist Film Theory and "Pretty Woman" Bloomsbury Press, 2016
The Age of Scientific Sexism Bloomsbury Press, 2015
Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics Bloomsbury Press, 2015
The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living Columbia University Press, 2013
The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within Fordham University Press, 2012
The Summons of Love Columbia University Press, 2011
The Case for Falling in Love: Why We Can’t Master the Madness of Love—and Why That’s the Best Part Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2011
A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living SUNY Press, 2009
Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life Other Press, 2006