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![[Video] Symposium: Suely Rolnik Deconstructs the Colonial Unconscious](https://psychoanalysisandsocialjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-17.png?w=639)
[Video] Symposium: Suely Rolnik Deconstructs the Colonial Unconscious
In this public program, held at the Guggenheim Museum as part of “Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today,” Pablo León de la Barra, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America, introduces a keynote address from Suely Rolnik titled “The Micropolitics of Thinking: Suggestions to those who seek to deprogram the colonial unconscious,” in… Read more
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February 27- When Therapists Become Activists: Embracing A Politicised Practice and Life.
Overview When Therapists Become Activists: Embracing A Politicised Practice and Life, A TaSC Seminar with Kim Loliya This workshop invites us to reimagine our roles — not as detached professionals, but as active participants in collective liberation. Together, we will explore how embracing a politicised practice can transform not only our clients’ lives, but our… Read more
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New Article: Gaza: rethinking and decolonizing mental health responses in humanitarian emergencies.
Audrey Mc Mahon, Haneefa Merchant, Salsabeel Alkhatib, Sabrah Khanyari,Tara Alami, Ebrahim Sader, Jude Nachabe, Joseph El-Khoury & Samah Jabr. ABSTRACTLongstanding armed conflicts generate distinctive psychological wounds, transforming collective bonds and reconfiguring individuals’ perceptions of identity, security, and trust, enduring. The occupied Palestinian territories exemplify this violence, as prolonged occupation has produced deep, systematic, and foreseeable… Read more
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The colonial republic of psychoanalysis: how psychoanalysis polices the psychic sovereignty of “Others”, by Stephen Sheehi and Lara Sheehi. Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society
This article uses a scholarly case to analyze how psychoanalytic soft power is extended to govern and regulate the “psychic sovereignty” of “non-normative” subjects, especially racialized, gendered and sexualized subjects in, from and of the Global South. In using an example from the ways psychoanalysis circulates within France (in particular within contemporary debates of what… Read more
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A Decolonial Approach to Case Formulation: Pragmatic Applications for Therapeutic and Political Action – Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD (Webinar live online)
This presentation will use a decolonial lens to review current thinking in psychoanalytic case formulation that addresses a) intrapsychic functioning (Davanloo’s feeling-anxiety-defense model) b) interpersonal dynamics (Luborsky’s wish-response of other-response of self), c) personality structure (Kernberg’s level of personality organization), and d) structural forces (Raque and Meisels’ structurally informed case formulation). Drawing on an integration… Read more
![[Article] Capitalism and Mental Health by David Matthews](https://psychoanalysisandsocialjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-16.png?w=1024)
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 