Granta : the magazine of new writing. 174, Therapy / publisher, Sigrid Rausing ; editor, Thomas Meaney.

Format:

Book

Series:

Granta ; 174.

Granta / the magazine of new writing ; 174 (Winter 2026)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--21st century--Collections.

Literature, Modern.

Psychotherapy in literature.

Chinese literature--21st century.

Chinese literature.

Genre:

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

310 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Therapy

Place of Publication:

London : Granta Magazine, 2026.

Summary:

"When Sigmund Freud died, Auden wrote 'he is no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion.' Something similar could be said for therapy today. We live in a therapeutic age. It is generally accepted that the world of subconsciousness plays into all of our thoughts and actions, and that, in the hands of experts, it can be directed along more fruitful pathways. But as a science and a practice, therapy has always been fraught with dilemmas and crises. It has been bound up with power and manipulation, though its finest practitioners and participants counter that it contributes to human liberation. This issue of Granta explores all of these dimensions of therapy. We do so in a lay register, in the tradition of clear, literary writers about therapy and psychoanalysis, from (former Granta contributing editor) Janet Malcolm to Christopher Bollas, from Adam Phillips to Jacqueline Rose. Topics will include 'celebrity' therapists, therapists on trial, and the history of concepts like anxiety and transference, as well as new types of therapy such as EMDR. One of the most common criticisms of much contemporary therapy is that it originated in quite specific contexts and classes and that it depoliticises its audience. In order to address this concern, the issue moves well outside therapy as it's practiced the Anglosphere into how therapy works in societies like China, Argentina, Albania, and beyond"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

The animal side of life / Thomas Meaney

Good medicine / Sheila Heti

Steal, Erik / Natalie Shapero

Transference in the afternoon / Jesse Barron

Whatever Creek Meadows / Benjamin Kunkel

Every dark corner / Deborah Levy

Therapy rooms / Nigel Shafran

The orange ship / Christopher Bollas

Mother / Elfriede Jelinek

I missed, poem interrupted by Mary Ruefle / Olive Franklin

Plant teachers / Musuk Nolte

Mozart balls / Camilla Grudova

Dropped from the sky / Juliet Mitchell

Psychoanalytic writings / Louise Bourgeois

Inhabiting light / Rinko Kawauchi

The love of singular men, News for Nira, My grandfather is the future, The first Gulf War, I am not a poet / Victor Heringer

Secondhand smoke / Dushko Petrovich Córdova

Madame Gandi / Anne Serre

The Perec case / Paul Keegan

Her enemy's phrase / Missouri Williams

We are creatures who mourn / Jonathan Lear

To Adam Zagajewski, Thinking of Adam, Politics / Robert Hass.

Notes:

"Winter 2026"--Spine.

Contains:

Meaney, Thomas. Animal side of life.

Heti, Sheila, 1976- Good medicine.

Shapero, Natalie. Steal, Erik.

Barron, Jesse. Transference in the afternoon.

Kunkel, Benjamin. Whatever Creek Meadows.

Levy, Deborah. Every dark corner.

Shafran, Nigel, 1964- Therapy rooms.

Bollas, Christopher. Orange ship.

Jelinek, Elfriede, 1946- Mother.

Franklin, Olive. I missed, poem interrupted by Mary Ruefle.

Nolte, Musuk, 1988- Plant teachers.

Grudova, Camilla. Mozart balls.

Mitchell, Juliet, 1940- Dropped from the sky.

Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010. Psychoanalytic writings.

Kawauchi, Rinko, 1972- Inhabiting light.

Heringer, Victor, 1988-2018. Amor dos homens avulsos. English

Heringer, Victor, 1988-2018. News for Nira.

Heringer, Victor, 1988-2018. My grandfather is the future.

Heringer, Victor, 1988-2018. First Gulf War.

Heringer, Victor, 1988-2018. I am not a poet.

Córdova, Dushko Petrovich. Secondhand smoke.

Serre, Anne, 1958- Madame Gandi.

Keegan, Paul. Perec case.

Williams, Missouri, 1992- Her enemy's phrase.

Lear, Jonathan. We are creatures who mourn.

Hass, Robert. To Adam Zagajewski.

Hass, Robert. Thinking of Adam.

Hass, Robert. Politics.

ISBN:

1909889784

9781909889781

OCLC:

1526500282