Mikita Brottman is a psychoanalyst, author, and cultural critic known for her work on the pathological elements of contemporary culture. She received a DPhil in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. Formerly Chair of the program in Humanities and Depth Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, she is currently a professor of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her articles and case studies have appeared in 'Film Quarterly, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, New Literary History', and 'American Imago'. She has written influentially on horror films, critical theory, reading, psychoanalysis, and the work of the American folklorist, Gershon Legman.

• About the Author , Introduction , Psychoanalysis and magic , A brief history of thought-transference , Residues of the uncanny , Mothers and other ghosts , What is projective identification? , Afterword

Mikita Brottman is a psychoanalyst, author, and cultural critic known for her work on the pathological elements of contemporary culture. She received a DPhil in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. Formerly Chair of the program in Humanities and Depth Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, she is currently a professor of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her articles and case studies have appeared in 'Film Quarterly, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, New Literary History', and 'American Imago'. She has written influentially on horror films, critical theory, reading, psychoanalysis, and the work of the American folklorist, Gershon Legman.

• About the Author , Introduction , Psychoanalysis and magic , A brief history of thought-transference , Residues of the uncanny , Mothers and other ghosts , What is projective identification? , Afterword

Mikita Brottman is a psychoanalyst, author, and cultural critic known for her work on the pathological elements of contemporary culture. She received a DPhil in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. Formerly Chair of the program in Humanities and Depth Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, she is currently a professor of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her articles and case studies have appeared in 'Film Quarterly, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, New Literary History', and 'American Imago'. She has written influentially on horror films, critical theory, reading, psychoanalysis, and the work of the American folklorist, Gershon Legman.

• About the Author , Introduction , Psychoanalysis and magic , A brief history of thought-transference , Residues of the uncanny , Mothers and other ghosts , What is projective identification? , Afterword