Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture: Building Bridges

This book looks at the intersection of psychoanalytic thinking, society and culture, using examples drawn from literature, clinical practice and everyday life.Informed by deep clinical understanding but written in a highly accessible way, this is key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, cultural studies scholars.

Dr Roger Kennedy is a consultant child psychiatrist and adult psychoanalyst and a past president of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was an NHS consultant at the Cassel Hospital for thirty years and is now chair of the Child and Family Practice where he sees children and families. He has had fifteen books, and many papers published on psychoanalysis, interdisciplinary studies, and child work.