Title: Kafka's Mind
Subtitle: A Psychological and Existential Reading of His Works
Subject Classification:  Psychology, Literature and Literary Criticism, Philosophy  
BIC Classification: JM, DSBH, HP
BISAC Classification: LIT004110, PHI006000, PSY045040
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: May 2027
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-619-5
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-620-1

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Description

Franz Kafka’s works—enigmatic, surreal, and profoundly unsettling—continue to resonate with readers more than a century after his death. This book offers a distinctive psychiatric, psychological, and existential exploration of Kafka’s narratives, weaving together modern clinical insights and existential philosophy to reveal how his stories illuminate the human condition. It also considers how Kafka’s themes can serve as a source of reflection and guidance for individuals living with mental health challenges, particularly those with a strong will to recover.

Unlike traditional literary criticism, this book bridges psychoanalytic, psychiatric, and existential frameworks, interpreting Kafka’s protagonists as case studies not only in alienation, anxiety, and guilt but also in resilience and the search for meaning. It explores how motifs of bureaucracy, absurdity, and powerlessness mirror the psychological realities of trauma, depression, and existential dread, offering fresh perspectives relevant to scholars, clinicians, and individuals with lived experience. Moving beyond theoretical formulation, it examines how resilience and willpower emerge as forces that transcend suffering and point toward recovery.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr Artin A. Mahdanian is a psychiatrist and existentialist based in Washington DC, fully registered in the USA, Canada, and the UK. He trained primarily at McGill University and specialises in consultation psychiatry and global mental health. His publications explore the intersection of psychology, psychiatry, human rights, and existential philosophy. He is the developer of the Rights-based Existential Psychiatry framework and the DEEP Therapy model (Dynamic Eclectic Existential Psychopharmacotherapy).

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