Ladson Hinton, psychotherapist, phenomenological existential thinker, Jungian analyst, by origin a psychiatrist and a quiet revolutionary of the interior world, died on 4 September 2025. His passing marks the loss of a mind singular in texture – dense with inquiry, alive with paradox, shaped equally by philosophy, psychoanalysis and psychology, and the enduring human struggle to understand what it means to exist.

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.

Winner of the International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Edited Book 2022.

Temporality has always been a central preoccupation of modern philosophy, and shame has been a major theme in contemporary psychoanalysis. To date, however, there has been little examination of the critical connection between these core experiences. Although they deeply implicate each other, no single book has focused upon their profound interrelationship. Temporality and Shame highlights the many dimensions of that reality.