Psychoanalysis and Catholicism: From Freud to Francis will be available March 2026. The book is organized into three parts. First, the historical relationship between psychoanalysis and the Church through key figures such as Sigmund Freud and Pope Pius XII is explored. Then, significant theological doctrines and psychoanalytic concepts including censorship/repression, original sin/unconscious desire, and the power of speech are put into dialogue. Finally, theory and theology are applied to contemporary issues like priestly and psychoanalytic formation and synodality within Lacan’s four discourses. Schneider centers Pope Francis, whose papacy was a pastoral practice which reflected psychoanalytic ethics, as an orienting influence throughout the text.