On May 16, 2024, Smith and
Kate Manne of
Cornell University were co-awarded the 2024 Lebowitz Prize for an as-of-yet unpublished presentation titled "Dehumanization and its Discontents."[3][4]
Publications
Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious (Kluwer, 1999).
Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course (Karnac, 1999).
Hidden Conversations: An Introduction to Communicative Psychoanalysis (Rebus Press, 2nd ed., 1999).
Psychoanalysis in Focus (Sage, 2002).
Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind (St. Martin's Press, 2004).
The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War (St. Martin's Press, 2007).[5]
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others (St. Martins Press, 2011).[6]
"Beyond Good and Evil: Variations on Some Freudian Themes," in Bohart, A. et al. (eds.), Humanity’s Dark Side (APA Books, 2012).
"War, evolution, and the nature of human nature," in Shackleford, T. (ed.), Oxford Companion to Evolutionary Approaches to War and Violence (Oxford University Press, 2012).
"Indexically yours: why being human is more like being here than like being water," in Corby, R. H. A & Lanjouw, A. (eds.), The Politics of Species: Exploring the Species Interface (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It (Oxford University Press, 2020).