In this talk, the authors will present a series of vignettes drawn from clinical work with Latinx populations to shed light on the psychological complexities of life in the barrio that is often marked by poverty, migration, marginalization, and barriers of language, class, and race. The authors will illustrate how psychoanalysis in not only possible in the barrio, but in fact indispensable to it; while also addressing the historical estrangement between psychoanalysis and cultural issues in the United States.
1. Identify and describe basic issues of class, ethnicity, race, and language as they intersect among Latinx populations in the barrio.
2. Accrue a better understanding of some of the basic misconceptions about the applicability of psychoanalysis with Latinx populations.
3. Develop a deeper understanding of historical antecedents that contributed to the marginalization of Latinx populations from psychoanalysis.
4. Develop an understanding of a culture bound syndrome, known as ataque de nervios.
5. Appreciate how the term culture bound syndrome is problematic.
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 
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