We are fed at the breast of culture, not wholly but to differing degrees. The Culture-Breast and Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic focuses on the formative influence of cultural objects in our lives, and the contribution such experiences make to our mental health and overall wellbeing.

Noreen Giffney is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a psychosocial theorist and the director of Psychoanalysis +. She works in private practice in County Donegal and is a lecturer at Ulster University, Northern Ireland.