Publications

Many texts about anxiety are based either in the philosophical tradition or within the medical model under the guise of discussions about post-traumatic stress disorder. In the case of fantasy, however, the usual sources of discussion are in literary and cultural...

This book argues that football offers us the possibility of manageable doses of self-elected madness. A madness that is essential for a sane life. For the paradox is that this very madness is simultaneously therapeutic: football as an insistent provocation, repeatedly...

Beat poet Allen Ginsberg is the subject of this illuminating documentary. Filmed in 1967, at the height of his career, Ah! Sunflower follows Ginsberg to London, where he attends a conference on ‘the demystification of violence’ at Camden’s Roundhouse. The DVD includes...

'Whoever thinks that Lacanian theory is utterly incomprehensible and clinically irrelevant should read Philip Hill's book. It is a worthy and rich successor to his Lacan for Beginners. Professor Paul Verhaeghe Ghent University, Belgium.   I thoroughly enjoyed...