Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis

In February 2018, Routledge published the long-awaited Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis.  Longtime IDI members Vamik Volkan and Lord John Alderdice have chapters in this essential scholarly work.

From the publisher:

The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding the dialectical relationship between mind and culture, this volume addresses a multiplicity of realms. These include anthropology, religion, philosophy, history, as well as evolutionary psychology, medicine, race, poverty, migration, and prejudice. Dimensions of social praxis such as education, health policy, and cyberpsychology are also addressed. The enrichment of our understanding of the fine arts (e.g. painting, sculpture, poetry) and performing arts (e.g. music, dance, cinema) by the application of psychoanalytic principles and the enhancement of psychoanalysis by bringing such arts to bear upon it also form areas of this book’s concern. This magisterial volume brings distinguished psychoanalysts, philosophers, musicians, poets, businessmen, architects, and movie critics together to create a chorus of modern, anthropologically-informed and culturally sensitive psychoanalysis. Students and teachers of diverse disciplines of humanities, liberal arts, and mental health professions would find this book of immense use.

The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is available here.