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 | |
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| 2025 | Stephanie Swales (2025) '‘Til death do us part: Lacking in love or loving lack' In: Death and Love: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives. London : Routledge. [Link] https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032663487 | |
| 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] | |
| 2020 | Swales, Stephanie (2020) 'Session IV: “The Psychology of the Rich: Pausanias”' In: Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII: On Transference. London : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
| 2020 | Swales, Stephanie (2020) 'Session XVIII: “Real Presence”' In: Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII: On Transference. London : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
| 2018 | Owens, C.; Swales, S. (2018) 'Why the zombies ate my neighbors: Whither ambivalence?' In: On Psychoanalysis and Violence Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Swales, Stephanie (2018) 'The Phobic and Fetish Objects' In: Studying Lacan’s Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire. New York & London : Routledge. [Link] | |
| 2018 | Swales, Stephanie (2018) 'Metaphor of the subject' In: Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ To ‘Metaphor of the Subject’. New York & London : Routledge. | |
| 2017 | Swales, Stephanie (2017) 'Lacanian psychoanalysis with children: Framing challenges and Inventions' In: Further Notes on the Child: Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children and Teenagers. New York & London : Routledge. [Link] https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429476525-1 |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2025 | Swales, S.; Bell, C.R.; Roberts, J. L. (2025) 'Empathy and Lacanian psychoanalysis? A qualitative study'. Psychoanalytic Psychology, . https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000559 | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 2011 | Swales, Stephanie (2011) 'S/he stole my jouissance! A Lacanian approach to gender in the group'. Group, 35 (3):221-234. [Link] | |
| 2010 | Swales, Stephanie (2010) 'Psychosis or neurosis? Lacanian diagnosis and group therapists'. Group, 34 (2):129-143. [Link] | |
| 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] |
Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Swales, Stephanie (2019) Review of Jessica Benjamin’s Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity, and the Third. | |
| 2017 | Swales, Stephanie (2017) Review of Sergio Benvenuto’s What are Perversions? Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis. [Link] | |
| 2014 | Swales, Stephanie (2014) Philippe Van Haute and Tomas Geyskens, A Non-Oedipal Psychoanalysis? A Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the Works of Freud and Lacan. [Link] |
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