Bøker av Derek Hook

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited in order to facilitate properly psychoanalytical clinical practice.

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited in order to facilitate properly psychoanalytical clinical practice.

Focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global South city. Anxious Joburg invites readers to consider an intimate perspective of living inside such a city.

This book introduces and applies Foucault's key concepts and procedures, specifically for a psychology readership. Drawing on recently published College de France lectures, it is useful to those concerned with Foucault's engagement with the 'psy-disciplines' and those interested in the practical application of Foucault's critical research methods.

Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as 'the post-apartheid social'. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994.

This series celebrates the lives and writings of South African and African liberation activists and heroes. The human, social and literary contexts presented in this series have a critical resonance and bearing on where we come from, who we are and how we can choose to shape our destiny.