All Episodes

Readings of Jean Laplanche in Process: Conversations Amplifying Differences with Bryan Batista-Thomas (Routledge, 2026)

Galit Atlas, "Come Closer: Childhood Wounds, Adult Love, And The Secrets of Emotional Intimacy" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)

Sarah Meehan O'Callaghan, "Psychoanalysing Mind-Body Narratives Through Beckett and Artaud: The Trauma of the Body" (Routledge, 2026)

Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" Part 2 (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Rachel Aviv, "You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters" (Knopf, 2026)

Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Mark Solms, "The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing" (Pegasus, 2026)

Todd McGowan, "Self-Sabotage: How We Try Not to Flourish" (Polity Press, 2026)

Barbara Holifield, "Being with the Body in Depth Psychology: Development, Trauma, and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm" (Routledge, 2024)

M. Guy Thompson, "Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)

Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages

Nyck Walsh, "Neurodivergent Somatics in Therapy: An Anti-Oppressive Model for Whole Person Care" (Norton, 2026)

Arpan Roy, "Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Elizabeth Cotton, "UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health" (Policy Press, 2025)

Aliza Einhorn, "Tarot of the Unconscious: Uncovering the Hidden Link Between Psychoanalysis and the Cards" (Weiser Books, 2026)

Charles J. Stivale, "Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970–1987: Summaries and Commentary" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

Darren Haber, "Addiction, Accommodation, and Vulnerability in Psychoanalysis: Circles Without a Center" (Routledge, 2022)

Adam Phillips, "The Life You Want" (FSG, 2026)

Gloria Sibson Ayob, "The Concept of Emotional Disorder" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Helen Veit, "Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History" (St Martin's Press, 2026)

Barnaby B. Barratt, "Free Association: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2026)

Lara Sheehi, "From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures" (Pluto Press, 2026)

Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik, "Healing the Oppressed Body: A Therapeutic Guide for Radical Self-Liberation" (Penguin, 2026)

Roger Frie, "Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Must We Drown in the Wake? Notes on Addressing Racism in Psychoanalytic Institutes

Stephen Grosz, "Love's Labour: How We Break and Make the Bonds of Love" (Vintage, 2026)

Osamu Kitayama and Jhuma Basak, "Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India" (Routledge, 2025)

Marilyn Charles, "Echoes of Trauma: Meaning and Identity in Psychoanalysis" (American Psychological Association, 2025)

Joanna Bourke, "Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker" (Reaktion, 2026)

Mari Ruti and Gail N. Newman, "The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Erica Lorentz, "Body As Shadow: Jung’s Method of Embodied Healing" (Karnac, 2026)

Joseph Scalia III and Lynne S. Scalia, "Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education" (Routledge, 2025)

Louis Rothschild, "Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities" (Karnac, 2023)

Juliane Maxwald, "Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)

Anna Fishzon, "The Impossible Return - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning" (Routledge, 2025)

Betty Milan, "Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

Nancy McWilliams, "Psychoanalytic Supervision" (Guilford Publications, 2021)

Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Jamieson Webster, "Disorganisation & Sex" (Divided Publishing, 2022)

Jane G. Goldberg, "Wired for Why: How We Think, Feel, and Make Meaning" (2025)

Dominique: the Case of an Adolescent interview with Jamieson Webster

Ashis Roy, "Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-muslim Relationships" (Yoda Press, 2024)

Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman

Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Jon Mills, "End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

Vanessa Sinclair et al., "The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)

The Unconscious Calculus of Justice: Racial Bias in Legal Outcomes

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

Tom Wooldridge, "Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)

Madness & Acute Religious Experiences, with Richard Saville-Smith

Eli Zaretsky, “Political Freud: A History” (Columbia UP, 2015)

Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)

Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)

The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash

Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee eds., "Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories" (Karnac Books, 2025)

Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Jack Black and Joseph S Reynoso eds., "Sport and Psychoanalysis: Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears" (Lexington Books, 2024)

David P. Celani, "Ronald Fairbairn: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)

Introducing The Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung

Misogynoir and the Psychic Life of Race: Projective Identification, Cultural Authority, and the Black Feminine

Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, "Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)

Psychoanalytic Defenses and the Battle Over America's Classrooms

Gohar Homayounpour, "Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning" (Routledge, 2022)

What it Means to Forget

Richard Reichbart, "The Anatomy of a Psychotic Experience: A Personal Account of Psychosis and Creativity" (Ipbooks, 2022)

Adrian Keith Perkel, "Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach" (Routledge, 2023)

When People Can't Listen

Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)

Peter Shabad, "Passion, Shame, and the Freedom to Become: Seizing the Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2024)

Eugene W. Holland, "Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism" (SUNY Press, 2024)

Jamieson Webster, "On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe" (Catapult, 2025)

Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms

Carl Waitz, "Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective" (Routledge, 2024)

Hila Yahalom, "A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo" (Routledge, 2024)

Ahron Friedberg, "Life Studies in Psychoanalysis: Faces of Love" (Routledge, 2023)

Udo Hock, "The Enigmatic Messages of the Other: On the Work of Jean Laplanches" (Psychosozial-Verlag, 2024)

Hélène Tessier, "The Vocabulary of Laplanche" (PUF, 2024)

Jan Abram, "The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic Clinical Essays on Psychic Survival-Of-The-Object" (Routledge, 2021)

Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Roberta Satow, "Our Time Is Up" (Ipbooks, 2024)

Negative Life

Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)

James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”

Desy Safán-Gerard, "Chaos and Control: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Unfolding Creative Minds" (Routledge, 2018)

Robert Caper, "Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious" (Routledge, 2020)

Karyne E Messina, "A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia: Searching for Truth" (Routledge, 2024)

How Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense Affected the 2024 Presidential Campaign and Election

Emily Dinova, "The Antagonist" (Bruce Scivally, 2024)

Steven J. Sandage and Brad D. Strawn, "Spiritual Diversity in Psychotherapy: Engaging the Sacred in Clinical Practice" (APA, 2021)

Anneli Jefferson, "Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?" (Routledge, 2024)

Stijn Vanheule, "Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers" (Other Press, 2024)

Derek Hook, “Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2018)

Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"

Sandra Buechler, "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living" (Routledge, 2019)

Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton, "Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment" (Reaktion Books, 2024)