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.

Past and Current Board Member Publications

Nikol G. Alexander
Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.

Marilyn Charles
Charles, M (2002). Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience. The Analytic Press.

Charles, M. (2004). Learning from experience: a guidebook for clinicians. The Analytic Press.

Charles, M. (2004). Constructing Realities: Transformations through Myth and Metaphor. Rodopi.

Charles, M (2012). Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan. New York: Jason Aronson.

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

Lynne Layton
Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (Analytic Press, 2004)

Bringing the Plague. Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2002)

Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting (Routledge, 2006)

Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self. (NYU Press, 1986)

Michael O’Loughlin www.michaeloloughlinphd.com
O’Loughlin, M., Arac-Orhun, S. & Queler, M. (2019). Lives interrupted: Psychiatric Narratives of Struggle and Resilience: Lanham: Lexington Books.

Muofhe, L. & Phaswana, P. (2018). And we forgave them: Stories from the struggle against apartheid in Venda, South Africa. Edited and with an introductory chapter by M. O’Loughlin. UNISA [University of South Africa Press].

O’Loughlin, M. & Johnson, R. (Eds.). (2010). Imagining children otherwise: Theoretical and critical perspectives on childhood subjectivity. New York: Peter Lang Publishing

O’Loughlin, M. (2009). The subject of childhood. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

O’Loughlin, M. (Ed.). (2013). Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families and Schools. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.

O’Loughlin, M. (Ed.). (2013). The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Working with Children’s Emotional Lives. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.

Smith, C. , Lobban, G., & O’Loughlin, M. (Eds.). (2013). Psychodynamic psychotherapy in contemporary South Africa: Theory, practice, and policy perspectives. Johannesburg, SA: Wits University Press.

O’Loughlin, M. (Ed.). (2015). The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Trauma, History and Memory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

O’Loughlin, M. & Charles, M. (Eds.). (2015). Fragments of trauma and the social production of suffering: Trauma, History and Memory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Angie Voela
Voela, A. (2017), After Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Myth in Contemporary Culture, Palgrave MacMillan

Garrett, R., Jensen, T., Voela, A. (eds), (2016), We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, the Family and Popular Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.

Ricardo Ainslie www.ricardoainslie.com
Ainslie, R. C. The Psychology of Twinship.  Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press, 1985.  (Second Edition: Northvale: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1997).

Ainslie, R. C. No Dancin’ In Anson: An American Story of Race and Social Change. New York: Jason Aronson, Inc. 1995.

Ainslie, Ricardo (2004): Long Dark Road: The story of Bill King and Jasper’s murder. University of Texas Press.

Ainslie, Ricardo with Sarah Wilson (photographer) (2004)* The Road To Redemption. Jasper, Texas: The Healing of a Community In Crisis. Austin: Pentagram. * Exhibit Book.

Ainslie, Ricardo (in press): The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico’s Drug War. University of Texas Press.

Jennifer Friedlander
Moving Pictures: Where the Police, the Press, and the Art Image Meet (Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998)

Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, and Subversion (State University of New York Press, 2008)

Jan Haaken
Psychiatry, Politics and PTSD: Breaking Down (New York, Routledge Press, 2021)

Hard Knocks: Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling (London, Routledge, 2010).

Memory Matters: Understanding Recollections of Sexual Abuse with Reavy, P (eds) (London: Routledge, 2010)

Speaking Out: Women, War and the Global Economy Haaken, J., Ladum, A., Zundel, K., DeTarr, S., & Heymann, C. (Portland, OR, Ooligan Press, 2005)

Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998)

Todd McGowan
Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013 (forthcoming)

Rupture: On the Emergence of the Political.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2012 (with Paul Eisenstein, forthcoming)

The Fictional Christopher Nolan.  Austin: University of Texas Press. 2012

Out of Time: The Ethics of Atemporal Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011

The Impossible David Lynch. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007

The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007

The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004

Lacan and Contemporary Film. Co-editor. New York: The Other Press, 2004

Hilary Neroni
The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema (SUNY Press, 2005)

Esther Rashkin
Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative (Princeton, 1992)

Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture (SUNY Press, 2008)

Psychoanalytic Interventions (Fordham)- book series

The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (Psychoanalytic Interventions)

Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis: The Law, the Theory, and the Data (Psychoanalytic Interventions)

Peter Redman
Redman, P. (ed.) (2008) Attachment: Sociology and Social Worlds, Manchester, Manchester University Press.

Mari Ruti
The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living (Columbia UP, 2013)

The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (Fordham UP, 2012)

The Summons of Love (Columbia UP, 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)