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      Calvin Thomas's Male Matters
        reveals the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process
        that transgresses the boundaries of gender. Wise and quirky, sophisticated
        and coarse, serious and hilarious, this look at male identity and creativity
        and dislocation at the end of the twentieth century definitely will not
        assuage male anxiety!
      "An excellent and important
        book. . . . By mixing high and low, by speaking candidly about what we
        usually keep in the (water) closet, while simultaneously engaging the
        'highest' philosophies of language and culture, Thomas calls the entire
        enterprise of criticism into question." -- Jeremy Earp, Journal
        of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity
      "A brave, indispensable
        exercise in writing the male body, and a tour de force of theoretically
        informed close reading." -- Kevin Floyd, Journal of the Midwest
        Modern Language Association
      "Both analyzes and performs
        our anxieties about masculinity. . . . This experiment in criticism transgresses
        boundaries of theory, gender, and academic taste in ways sure to delight
        and infuriate its readers." -- Gregory Jay, author of America
        the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History
      "Calvin Thomas is able
        to hint at a way out of the prison-house, as he puts it, of straight male
        identity." -- Kathy Acker, author of In Memoriam to Identity
 

Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life. Sharon Sliwinski guides the reader through the psychology of apartheid, recasting dreaming as a vital form of resistance to political violence, away from a rational binary of thinking.

This short, provocative study blends political theory with clinical psychoanalysis, opening up a new space to consider the politics of reverie.  

Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

In an effort to expand the clinical theory of psychoanalysis, John E. Gedo and Arnold Goldberg delineate and order the various generally accepted systems of psychological functioning, considered here as "models of the mind." The authors provide a historical review of four major models of the mind: the topographic model, the reflex arc model, the tripartite model, and an object relations model. They then investigate the possible hierarchical interrelationships of such models. Each model is shown to represent a different facet of mental functioning and is thus employable on an ad hoc basis. The models are shown not to cancel on another out but to allow for theoretical complementarity.

Gedo and Goldberg apply their theory to four classic psychoanalytic case studies to demonstrate its effectiveness: Freud's Rat Man, his Wolf Man, the case of Daniel Paul Schreber, and a case of arrested development. For each of these cases the authors show how it would have been both possible and advantageous to apply a variety of different theories as facts about each continued to accumulate.

A psychiatrist writes a letter to a journal explaining his decision to marry a former patient. Another psychiatrist confides that most of his friends are ex-patients. Both practitioners felt they had to defend their behavior, but psychoanalyst Arnold Goldberg couldn’t pinpoint the reason why. What was wrong about the analysts’ actions? 

In Moral Stealth, Goldberg explores and explains that problem of “correct behavior.” He demonstrates that the inflated and official expectations that are part of an analyst’s training—that therapists be universally curious, hopeful, kind, and purposeful, for example—are often of less help than simple empathy amid the ambiguous morality of actual patient interactions. Being a good therapist and being a good person, he argues, are not necessarily the same. 

Drawing on case studies from his own practice and from the experiences of others, as well as on philosophers such as John Dewey, Slavoj Žižek, and Jürgen Habermas, Goldberg breaks new ground and leads the way for therapists to understand the relationship between private morality and clinical practice.