Stephanie swales

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Stephanie Swales, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychotherapy in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health at Dublin City University.  She also works with individuals and couples as a clinical psychologist and Lacanian psychoanalyst.  Stephanie serves as an editor for the PCSreview section of section of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and as a member-at-large for the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Stephanie’s research predominantly focuses on empathy and the processes of change within psychotherapy.  She has authored numerous articles and book chapters as well as two books: Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch (Routledge, 2020), co-authored with Carol Owens, and Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject (Routledge, 2012). 

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2018 Owens, C.; Swales, S. (2018) 'Why the zombies ate my neighbors: Whither ambivalence?' In: On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives. [Link] [DOI]
2024 Carol Owens; Stephanie Swales (2024) 'The liminal and the (oral) drive: Neurotic tensions and neo- liberal recuperations' In: Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice. New York & London : Routledge. [DOI]
2022 Stephanie Swales (2022) 'Neoliberalism and liminality: Perverse cruelties in the age of the capitalist discourse' In: Lacan's Cruelty: Perversion beyond Philosophy, Culture and Clinic. New York : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]
2022 Stephanie Swales (2022) 'Depression reconsidered: The well-spoken, neurotic conflicts, and desire' In: Lacan on Depression and Melancholia. New York & London : Routledge. [DOI]

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2020 Swales, S.; May, C.; Nuxoll, M.; Tucker, C. (2020) 'Neoliberalism, guilt, shame and stigma: A Lacanian discourse analysis of food insecurity'. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, . [Link] [DOI]
2018 Swales, S. (2018) 'Transphobia in the bathroom: Sexual difference, alterity and jouissance'. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2017 Swales, S. (2017) 'Neurotic Treatment Resistance in Screen- or Phone-Based Analysis'. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, . [Link] [DOI]
2016 Pruitt, S.L.; Leonard, T.; Xuan, L.; Amory, R.; Higashi, R.T.; Nguyen, O.K.; Pezzia, C.; Swales, S. (2016) 'Who is food insecure? Implications for targeted recruitment and outreach, national health and nutrition examination survey, 2005-2010'. Preventing chronic disease, . [Link] [DOI]
2005 Fowler, J.C.; Brunnschweiler, B.; Swales, S.; Brock, J. (2005) 'Assessment of Rorschach dependency measures in female inpatients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder'. Journal of Personality Assessment, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Stephanie Swales (2023) 'Fantasy, the blind spot, and the art exhibition: Hadi Falapishi’s Young and Clueless'. Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, . [DOI]
2023 Stephanie Swales (2023) 'Sexual Difference, abjection, and liminal spaces: A psychoanalytic approach to the abhorrence of the feminine'. Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 28 (3). [DOI]
2022 Stephanie Swales (2022) 'A Lacanian Critique of the Empathy Cure: Jouissance, Extimacy, and Hating thy Neighbor'. Awry: Journal of Critical Psychology, 3 (1). [Link]

Book

Year Publication
2019 Swales, S.; Owens, C. (2019) Psychoanalysing ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and off the couch. [Link] [DOI]
2012 Stephanie Swales (2012) Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject. New York & London: Routledge. [DOI]
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Research Interests

Stephanie’s research interests are in the areas of psychotherapy change–pursuing questions related to how therapy leads to therapeutic change—psychotherapy outcome research, and psychopathology research.  Her current projects revolve around the theory and practice of empathy in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and how it relates to subjective change.  Her research is also concerned with the subjective and cultural conditions which foster certain types of psychological suffering, including the experience and effects of social justice issues including racism, xenophobia, transphobia, and food insecurity.