Pitchstone Publishing

Pitchstone Publishing is a publishing company based in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Kurt Volkan in 2003,[1] Pitchstone Publishing has published numerous books by leading academics and scholars, particularly in the fields of applied psychiatry and psychoanalysis. More recent books stem from the New Atheist tradition.

Notable books

Among the books published by Pitchstone are PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion and the Holy Book by Armando Favazza,[2][3] God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States by Karen Stollznow,[4] Blind Trust: Leaders and Their Followers in Times of Crisis and Terror,[5] and Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts by Vamik D. Volkan,[6] Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith by J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. with Clare Aukofer, with a foreword by Richard Dawkins, Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All – and What We Can Do About It by Sean Faircloth,[7] A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian, and Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Religion Behind by Daniel Dennett and Linda LaScola.[8]

Notes
  1. Ruark, Jennifer K. "Scholars Mix Psychology and Public Affairs to Analyze Political Figures Like Saddam Hussein", The Chronicle of Higher Education. February 28, 2003, accessed February 18, 2011.
  2. Weinberg, Steve. "Psychiatrist Puts Bible on the Couch", St. Louis Post-Dispatch. January 28, 2004, accessed February 18, 2011.
  3. Smith, Dale. "By the Book? A Psychiatrist Puts the Bible of the Couch", Illumination. Spring 2004, accessed February 18, 2011.
  4. "God Bless America". The Skeptic's Dictionary. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  5. Kiem, Elizabeth. "Putting the War on Terror on the Couch: Vamik Volkan's Blind Trust", Virginia Quarterly Review. Fall 2004, accessed February 18, 2011.
  6. Maurer, David A. "Putting Enemies on the Couch: Vamik Volkan's Unofficial Diplomacy", The University of Virginia Magazine. Spring 2007, accessed February 18, 2011.
  7. "About Pitchstone Publishing"
  8. "Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind - TheHumanist.com". TheHumanist.com. 2014-04-22. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
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