Derek Hook

Derek Hook
Born	South Africa
Occupation(s)	Psychologist; psychoanalyst; academic
Employer(s)	Duquesne University; University of Pretoria
Known for	Lacanian psychoanalysis; critical psychology; postcolonial theory
Academic work
Notable works	A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial; Six Moments in Lacan; Lacan and Race

Derek Hook (born 1972) is a professor of psychoanalysis at Duquesne University and extraordinary professor of psychology at the University of Pretoria and University of South Africa.^[1]

Life and works

Publications

Monographs

• Hook, Derek (2007). "Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power". SpringerLink. doi:10.1057/9780230592322. ISBN 978-1-349-28379-8.^[2]

Editorials

• Laubscher, Leswin; Hook, Derek; Desai, Miraj U. (2021-09-10). Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology (1 ed.). New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003037132. ISBN 978-1-003-03713-2.^[3]
• Hook, Derek; Vanheule, Stijn (2022-12-05). Lacan on Depression and Melancholia (1 ed.). London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003216391. ISBN 978-1-003-21639-1.^[4]

References

1. "Derek Hook". www.duq.edu. Archived from the original on 2025-08-31. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
2. Kaye, Bradley (2010-02-01). "Derek Hook, Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power (Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), ISBN: 978-0230008199". Foucault Studies: 166–168. doi:10.22439/fs.v0i8.2913. ISSN 1832-5203.
3. Dey, Sayan (2025-05-01). "The Fanonian Turn: Review—Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (eds), Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology, Routledge, New York & London, and Nigel C. Gibson (ed.), Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth, Daraja Press, Montreal, Quebec". Journal of Asian and African Studies. 60 (3): 2017–2025. doi:10.1177/00219096231192191. ISSN 0021-9096.
4. Lieber, Emma (2024-01-02). "Lacan on depression and melancholia: edited by Derek Hook and Stijn Vanheule, New York, NY, Routledge, 2023, 193 pp., $35.95 (pback), ISBN 9781032106533". Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 38 (1): 84–87. doi:10.1080/02668734.2023.2242470. ISSN 0266-8734.

External links

• Derek Hook publications indexed by Google Scholar