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5023
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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom University Of London
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom University Of London
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom University Of London

Overview

Stephen Frosh is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences, psychology, and the arts and humanities, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology and sociology and political science as key subfields.

The scholar's work addresses diverse topics including:

  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Jewish Identity and Society
  • Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
  • Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
  • Psychology and Mental Health
  • Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

Frequently collaborating with others, Stephen Frosh has worked closely with Belinda Mandelbaum, Rafael Alves Lima, Silvia Posocco, Zsuzsanna Agora, and Shaul Bar-Haim.

Their publications appear regularly in several key academic venues, indicating a sustained contribution to specific journals:

  • Psychoanalysis Culture & Society (7 publications)
  • Psychoanalysis and History (4 publications)
  • The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (3 publications)
  • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique (1 publication)
  • Revista USP (1 publication)

Recent papers include:

  • The unconscious in social and political life, 2020, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
  • Psychoanalysis as decolonial Judaism, 2020, Psychoanalysis Culture & Society
  • Postmemory and Possession, 2020, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
  • Psychoanalysis in the Wake, 2021, Psychoanalysis Culture & Society
  • On academic freedom, provisional whiteness and antisemitism, 2025, Psychoanalysis Culture & Society

Stephen Frosh has also authored books published by notable academic publishers. These include:

  • Antisemitism and Racism (2023), published by Bloomsbury Academic eBooks
  • Brazilian Psychosocial Histories of Psychoanalysis (2021), published by Springer International Publishing

The scholar has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom, associated with the University of London.

Best Publications

  • Producing contradictory masculine subject positions: Narratives of threat, homophobia and bullying in 11-14 year old boys

    Ann Phoenix;Stephen Frosh;Rob Pattman

  • Taking a stand: Using psychoanalysis to explore the positioning of subjects in discourse

    Stephen Frosh;Ann Phoenix;Rob Pattman

  • Psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies

    Stephen Frosh;Lisa Baraitser

  • Psychoanalysis outside the clinic

    Stephen Frosh

  • Hate and the 'Jewish Science': Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis

    Stephen Frosh

  • Psychosocial Studies and Psychology: Is a Critical Approach Emerging?

    Stephen Frosh

  • Identity Crisis: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self

    Stephen Frosh

  • Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis

    Stephen Frosh

  • Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions

    Stephen Frosh

  • Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology

    Peter Emerson;Stephen Frosh

  • Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies

    Stephen Frosh

  • The politics of psychoanalysis

    Stephen Frosh

  • Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology: A Guide to Practice

    Peter Emerson;Stephen Frosh

  • Interpretation and over-interpretation: disputing the meaning of texts

    Stephen Frosh;Peter D. Emerson

  • Psychoanalytic approaches to qualitative psychology

    Stephen Frosh;L. Saville Young

  • The Politics of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Freudian and Post-Freudian Theory

    Stephen Frosh

  • For and against psychoanalysis

    Stephen Frosh

  • Positioned by "hegemonic" masculinities: a study of London boys' narratives of identity

    Ann Phoenix;Stephen Frosh

  • The trouble with boys

    Stephen Frosh;Ann Phoenix;Rob Pattman

  • Key concepts in psychoanalysis

    Stephen Frosh

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London

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