Books

2024

Don’t Force Me to Milk, Let Me Feed You (Beni Zorla Sağma, Bırak Ben Emzireyim Seni)

OKUYAN US YAYIN

From her first lines to today, she has upset the bestseller lists. The author of There Is No Such Thing as a Perfect Family, There Is No Such Thing as a Perfect Society, and All Children Are Good, Nihan Kaya is now at Okuyan Us with all her new and old books!

Don’t Force Me to Milk, Let Me Feed You is a book that questions the difference between species.

2024

Baby School (Bebekler Okulu)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

We throw our toy on the ground.

September 2023

Reasons and Solutions for Procrastination (Erteleme Nedenleri ve Çözümleri)

EKSİK PARÇA YAYINLARI

Doing a task takes two hours, not doing it takes hours, days, weeks.

July 2023

The Heart Living in a Flowerpot (Saksıda Yaşayan Kalp)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

I planted my heart in a flowerpot.

July 2023

What Does the Purple Monster Want from Me? (Mor Canavar Benden Ne İstiyor?)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

There’s a monster under my bed.

March 2023

The Giant Baby (Azman Bebek)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

Naz has a sibling.

January 2023

The Child Who Loves Recess (Teneffüsleri Seven Çocuk)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

Can gets bored during lessons.

July 2022

Swimming, Living and the Desire to Be (Yüzmek, Yaşamak ve Olma Arzusu)

EKSİK PARÇA YAYINLARI

Human is the desire to be.

November 2021

The Goose That Thought Red Boots Were Its Mother (Kırmızı Çizmeleri Annesi Zanneden Kaz)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

The first thing Pafki saw when born was red boots! Pafki thinks the red boots are its mother.

November 2021

Cinderella Becomes a Dress Designer (Sinderella Elbise Tasarımcısı Oluyor)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

Cinderella wants to work as a maid somewhere else, not at home, and earn her own money.

July 2021

Muffin Wants to Be Sad Today (Mafin Bugün Mutsuz Olmak İstiyor)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

Muffin wants to be sad today.

July 2021

Rebel Sheep Melo (Asi Koyun Melo)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

Melo is a sheep who loves its wool.

April 2021

I Will Not Sacrifice You (Seni Feda Etmeyeceğim)

EKSİK PARÇA YAYINLARI

Who will protect the children that no one protects?
I Will Not Sacrifice You is a philosophical text that bravely discusses the sacrifice narrative around topics such as religion, family, gender, and sexuality.

March 2021

Princess A Wakes Up (Prenses A Uyanıyor)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

Princess A wakes up from her hundred-year sleep.

March 2021

Sahiku Wants to Be Friends with Children (Sahiku Çocuklarla Arkadaş Olmak İstiyor)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

Sahiku is a cockroach who wants to be friends with children.

July 2020

Ada Paints the Walls with Her Mother (Ada Annesiyle Duvarları Boyuyor)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

Ada is a little girl who travels the world with magical pink dust in her palms.

July 2020

The Driver Who Missed the Bus (Otobüsü Kaçıran Şoför)

EKSİK PARÇA ÇOCUK

Animo is a bus driver.

March 2020

Thresholds and Pathways Between Jung and Lacan On the Blazing Sublime

Foreign Publications

Chapter 15 of the book examines the intersection points between Jung and Lacan, analyzing how unconscious processes are interpreted through different perspectives.

September 2019

All Children Are Good (Bütün Çocuklar İyidir)

İTHAKİ YAYINLARI

This book was written for both children and adults.

March 2019

There Are No Good Societies (İyi Toplum Yoktur)

İTHAKİ YAYINLARI

After her groundbreaking book There Are No Good Societies, Nihan Kaya explains how we are unknowingly shaped to fit into society and how this mechanism prevents both society and the individual from truly existing.

September 2018

There Are No Good Families (İyi Aile Yoktur)

İTHAKİ YAYINLARI

There are no good families.

September 2017

Resentment and After: Why I’m No Longer Resentful (Kırgınlık ve Sonrası Artık Neden Kırgın Değilim)

OKUYAN US YAYIN

Resentment and After
Why I’m No Longer Resentful

Nihan Kaya

Seven years after its publication, Nihan Kaya brings her novel Resentment back to readers while also telling the story of how it was written.

June 2016

Snow and Pearls (Kar ve İnci)

İTHAKİ YAYINLARI

December 21.

September 2013

The Courage to Write (Yazma Cesareti)

İTHAKİ YAYINLARI

Maintaining its position as the first Turkish resource to address creativity in all its dimensions, The Courage to Write meets readers again.

May 2012

But I’m Not One of You (Ama Sizden Değilim)

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But I’m Not One of You, which Nihan Kaya calls “my most fun and easiest book to read,” consists of stories where humor and pain intertwine.

November 2011

Ivory Well Volume 1 (Fildişi Kuyu Cilt 1)

OKUYAN US YAYIN

Nihan Kaya, who reunites with her readers at Okuyan Us with Don’t Force Me to Milk, Let Me Feed You, greets her readers with a new foreword to Ivory Well!

Ivory Well consists of papers that Nihan Kaya has presented at international psychology conferences over the last twenty years.

October 2008

Dyspareunia or the Fear of Living (Disparöni ya da Yaşama Korkusu)

OKUYAN US YAYIN

Cem is a showman with a colorful life in front of the cameras.

January 2008

Dreaming the Myth Onwards: New Directions in Jungian Therapy and Thought

Foreign Publications

The first chapter of the book explores the psychological depth of myths and their effects on Jungian therapy.

October 2006

Haze (Buğu)

OKUYAN US YAYIN

Nihan Kaya’s novel Haze explores the deep and complex relationship between two characters from different cultural and social backgrounds.

October 2004

The Attic (Çatı Katı)

EKSİK PARÇA YAYINLARI

The Attic, consisting of stories written by Nihan Kaya in her early youth, received the Turkish Writers’ Union Award in 2004.

September 2003

Gizli Özne (Hidden Subject)

OKUYAN US YAYIN

A young woman boarding an IETT bus in her wedding dress.