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Zoom Event: When Racialized Ghosts Refuse To Become Ancestors: Tasting The “Blood Of Recognition” In Racial Melancholia And Mixed-Race Identities Dhwani Shah, MD
September 14, 2024 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am via Zoom Program description: Experiences of feeling haunted and of being in the presence of ghosts are prominent in narratives of patients/people of color in the United States and of mixed-race identity. A creative reading of Hans Loewald’s evocative statement on therapeutic action, the process of transforming “ghosts… Read more
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Book: Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being – David Marriott
DAVID MARRIOTT SERIES: CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT Frantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black Caribbean psychiatrist who had the improbable task of treating disturbed and traumatized North African patients during the wars of decolonization. Investigating and foregrounding the clinical… Read more
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Article: Here, there, and everywhere – now
Carolyn Laubender Carolyn Laubender with the epilogue from her new book, ‘The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the 20th Century’. One way to understand the value of these clinical projects – beyond their potential for on-the-ground help to individual people and communities – is that they explicitly reject the spurious separation between practice… Read more
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Nelson, G., & Prilleltensky, I. (2005). Community psychology: In pursuit of liberation and well-being. New York: Pelgrave-Macmillan.
ABSTRACT: The purpose of the present study is to explore older adults’ understanding and conceptualizations of the concept “psychological sense of community” (PSOC) as experiences of belonging and being part of seem to be important in old age. Twelve older informants from Oslo (the capital of Norway) were interviewed. A thematic and discourse analytical approach… Read more
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Benjamin, J. (2011). Facing reality together discussion: With culture in mind: The social third.
Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 12(1), 27–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2011.536052 Abstract Like the papers it speaks to, Jessica Benjamin’s deft discussion works at once on 3 different levels: the clinical moment where mind and society meet, the critique of social and psychoanalytic theory, and the assessment of social forces. It aims to “highlight what is gained or lost… Read more
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Book: D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject
Editors: In this volume, the work of British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott is set in conversation with some of today’s most talented psychodynamically-sensitive political thinkers. The editors and contributors demonstrate that Winnicott’s thought contains underappreciated political insights, discoverable in his reflections on the nature of the maturational process, and useful in working through difficult impasses confronting… Read more
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