Free Association Books is a project started in
London
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in the 1980s.
Bob Young and colleagues began a search using
psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...
to understand the problems of liberation. Other people became involved in the movement such as
Andrew Samuels and
Bob Hinshelwood and it grew quickly into a publishing house which produced books written by young psychoanalysts.
Its house journal was ''Free Associations'', which commenced publication in 1984, initially as "Radical Science 15".
Its annual conference, "Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere" ran in conjunction with the
University of East London
University of East London (UEL) is a public university located in the London Borough of Newham, London, England, based at three campuses in Stratford, London, Stratford and London Docklands, Docklands, following the opening of University Squar ...
.
Authors who have published with them include
Mary Barnes,
Martin Bernal,
Christopher Bollas,
Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel (for English translations),
Michael Fordham,
André Green,
Donna Haraway
Donna Jeanne Haraway (born September 6, 1944) is an American professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and te ...
,
Oliver James,
Ludmilla Jordanova,
Joel Kovel
Joel Stephen Kovel (August 27, 1936 – April 30, 2018) was an American psychiatrist, scholar, human rights activist, and author known as a founder of eco-socialism. Kovel became a psychoanalyst, but he abandoned psychoanalysis in 1985.
Backg ...
,
Michel Odent,
Paul Roazen, Adam Jukes and
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
Free Association Books is now owned by Free Publishing Ltd and continues to publish a wide range of texts.
References
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Free Association Books
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Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Psychoanalysis
Publications established in 1984