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Psychoanalysis in Focus
SAGE Publications 2002; US$ 54.00Journal of Analytical Psychology `Psychoanalysis in Focus provides an excellent introduction to the basic problems besetting psychoanalytic theory and practice. David Livingstone Smith's lucid survey of the major strands of the critical debate about psychoanalysis fills an important gap in the literature of a discipline not renowned for examining... more...
The Most Dangerous Animal
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 16.99Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight. The Most Dangerous Animal asks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for human beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the story of why all human beings have the potential to be... more...
Less Than Human
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 16.99Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today?s headlines ?Brute.? ?Cockroach.? ?Lice.? ?Vermin.? ?Dog.? ?Beast.? These and other monikers are constantly in use to refer to other humans?for political, religious,... more...
Why We Lie
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 17.99Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We have been talking, writing and singing about deception ever since Eve told God, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." Our seemingly insatiable appetite for stories... more...
Psychoanalysis and Theism
Jason Aronson, Inc. 2010; US$ 54.99Psychoanalysis and Theism starts with a critique of psychoanalysis and its application to religion which, surprisingly, ends up expressing enthusiastic support for some classical psychoanalytic ideas. Following this essay by Adolf Grünbaum, one of the world's leading philosophers of science, nine senior scholars offer their own critical reflections... more...
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