Review of Coline Covington’s ‘Who is to Blame?’
Review of Coline Covington’s ‘Who is to Blame?’ Coline Covington starts by challenging the position of the moral philosopher Susan Neimann that “the group retains not just collective responsibility for its past but collective guilt” (p. xv). Neimann’s work draws on the effort of the German people to atone for their deeds in the second […]
Behind Xi’s smile

What’s behind Xi Jinping’s seemingly permanent Buddha smile? A diplomat’s answer might run along the lines of the secret strategic calculations that tell Xi the geopolitical balance of power is tilting his way. A sense of impending victory, hubris even. A psychologist’s answer might be different: it points not to victory, or to hubris, but to a force fundamental to China’s collective political psychology: shame.
IAJS Award Winners 2022

IAJS Award Winners 2022
Shame, Temporality and Social Change – Ominous Transitions – To be published in March 2021

Reviews ‘A powerful, unflinching and deep look from multiple vertices into our contemporary collective descent, epitomized by the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism in societies makes Ominous Transitions a strong, psychoactive read.
American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Winners for 2018

The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) has selected the following authors and editors as Winners for the ABAPsa annual book prize.
New Publication on Primo Levi and Post-truth

The stark realism of Primo Levi’s experiences of the Shoah is considered in
light of the current political climate in which the authoritarian other induces a
divergence between reality, a state of things as they actually exist or existed, and truth,
that which to some extent accords to reality.
Temporality and Shame – New Book Edited by Ladson Hinton and Hessel Willemsen

Temporality has been a central preoccupation of modern philosophy, and shame has been a major theme in contemporary psychoanalysis