Pitchstone Publishing Explained

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 secular humanism, new atheism, applied psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.

Notable books

• • Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All – and What We Can Do About It (2012) by Sean Faircloth Blind Trust: Leaders and Their Followers in Times of Crisis and Terror (2018) by Vamık Volkan^[2]
• Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Religion Behind (2017) by Daniel Dennett and Linda LaScola^[3]
• God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States (2013) by Karen Stollznow^[4]
• Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical (2020) by Sikivu Hutchinson^[5]
• Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts (2014) by Vamik Volkan^[6]
  • A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013) by Peter Boghossian PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion and the Holy Book (2003) by Armando Favazza^{[7] [8]}
• Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith (2011) by J. Anderson Thomson, Jr.

Notes and References

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. Kiem, Elizabeth. "Putting the War on Terror on the Couch: Vamik Volkan's Blind Trust", Virginia Quarterly Review. Fall 2004, accessed February 18, 2011.
3. News: 2014-04-22 . Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind - TheHumanist.com . en-US . TheHumanist.com . 2017-06-01.
4. Web site: God Bless America. The Skeptic's Dictionary. 27 December 2013.
5. Web site: News . Voices . Commentary . Features . Magazine . The . Entertainment . Arts & . Multimedia . Us . About . Us . Contact . Sikivu Hutchinson . 2022-07-04 . TheHumanist.com . en-US.
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. Weinberg, Steve. "Psychiatrist Puts Bible on the Couch", St. Louis Post-Dispatch. January 28, 2004, accessed February 18, 2011.
8. Smith, Dale. "By the Book? A Psychiatrist Puts the Bible of the Couch", Illumination. Spring 2004, accessed February 18, 2011.