UCHI and the Sharon Harris Book Award Committee are thrilled to announce the 2018 winner of the Sharon Harris Book Award:
Anne C. Dailey’s Law and the Unconscious: A Psychoanalytical Perspective (Yale University Press, 2017).
Law and the Unconscious makes a provocative argument that U.S. law should more honestly acknowledge the role of unconscious, emotional, and irrational influences on human behavior. Based on extensive research, and written in elegant, engaging prose, Law and the Unconscious explains how psychoanalytical insights might help us develop more humane ways to consider false or coerced confessions, threatening language, one-sided prenuptial agreements, restrictions on sexual behavior, and the rights and needs of children. The award committee noted that Dailey’s work “is a model of how humanities scholarship can bring new insights to matters of broad public concern. It will be of value to scholars across the humanities, to legal professionals, and to an educated reading public.”
More information: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300188837/law-and-unconscious
For more information, contact: UCHI at uchi@uconn.edu