The term applied psychoanalysis refers to the use of psychoanalytic ideas beyond the clinical setting. In one application of applied psychoanalysis the community psychoanalyst studies and intervenes in turmoil and external conflict: large group regression; war; violence; community trauma, abuse, and neglect; homelessness; the transgenerational transmission of trauma, such as the Holocaust and slavery; international negotiation; bullying; and resiliency.

Projected Shadows: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema applies psychoanalysis to film, the new art form of the twentieth century, as it has been applied to literature, mythology, painting, sculpture, and drama. Early psychoanalytic studies of these art forms used a reductionist approach, as described by Kaufman (2007). They tried to discover the “true” meaning of works of art by tracing them