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May 17th via Zoom: Psychotherapists Working in Public Spaces, with Maria Nardone, Ph.D.
When she was an early career psychologist, Dr. Nardone was asked to provide psychological testimony for a man facing deportation which would have deeply and negatively affected his U.S. citizen family. Subsequent cases included green card holders who committed crimes and were rehabilitated, people seeking asylum, and undocumented parents with U.S. citizen children. These experiences… Read more
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The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Carolyn Laubender – Columbia University Press For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social sciences. But it is also, inseparably, a clinical practice and technique for treatment. In what ways is clinical practice significant for critical thought? What conceptual resources does the clinic hold for us today?… Read more
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Fascism Amnesia: A Failure of Witnessing
by Jill Salberg This article was originally published in ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action Conversations like the following were happening more frequently: “Where could we go? Where will they let us in and let us work? Is it safer to try someplace nearby or best to go farther away?” Or this: “Three generations of my family have… Read more
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Manifesto for infrastructural thinking: Living with psychoanalysis in a glitch
Raluca Soreanu and Ana Minozzo This paper is a manifesto for an infrastructural turn in psychoanalysis, proposing to look at institutions ‘slantwise’. It theorises psychoanalytic infrastructural thinking, pondering on its qualities as a particular kind of orientation to action, and showing its capacity to consider multiple transferences and ambivalence, as well as new fantasies on… Read more
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Upcoming Book: Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique. Putting Freud on Fanon’s Couch. Daniel José Gaztambide
“Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sexuality. How does one address this organically in psychotherapy? What role does it play in therapeutic action? Who brings it up, the therapist or the patient?Daniel José Gaztambide addresses these questions by offering a rigorous decolonial… Read more
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