Psychoanalysis and Social Justice

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Countertalk: Why Divest from Legacy Psychoanalytic Institutions. June 13th, 2026, 12-2pm ET

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This forthcoming Counter-Talk has been explicitly devised to respond to and go beyond the limited frame of an upcoming APsA symposium: “Reimagining Engagement in Psychoanalytic Institutions.” That event asks “why…analysts and trainees [are] stepping back from institute life” and “what…it cost[s] the field — clinically, professionally, communally — when institutional engagement declines?” The opening premise of…
Coming Soon: Fanon and Lacan: Decolonial Psychoanalysis. Edited By Derek Hook, Sinan Richards (2027)

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Fanon and Lacan: Decolonial Psychoanalysis explores the influence of psychoanalysis on Frantz Fanon’s thought and delves into Fanon’s innovative use of psychoanalysis as a way of diagnosing and addressing the socio-psychological traumas of colonialism and racialised structures of power. The contributors in this volume highlight how, by engaging with Lacanian concepts such as the mirror stage,…
Opposition to All Forms of Conversion Therapy

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This is a letter to membership from the Board of Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility (Section IX), a section of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association. It does not represent the position of the American Psychological Association or any of its other Divisions or subunits.