In this volume, renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion.

A sensitive and multidimensional portrait of what it means to live with mental illness in contemporary Japan.

In this highly original book, Camille Robcis seeks to explain why and how academic discourses on kinship have intersected and overlapped with political debates on the family—and on the nature of French republicanism itself.

The Pathological Family examines how family therapy developed against the intellectual and cultural landscape of postwar America.

Looking to the trials of infamous murderers in late imperial Russia to reveal its cultural values, social norms, and political expectations.

In Reading Classes, Barbara Jensen explores the anguish caused by class in our society, identifying classism--or anti–working class prejudice--as a central factor in the reproduction of inequality in America.

Stewart-Steinberg investigates the legacy of Anna Freud at the intersection between psychoanalysis as a mode of thinking and theorizing and its existence as a political entity.

By drawing explicit attention to diverse, implicit meanings of work, The Thought of Work allows us to better understand work, to value it, and to structure it in desirable ways that reflect its profound importance.