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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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Book: Enjoying What We Don’t Have- Todd McGowan (2013).
About the Book Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis. And this political project, Todd McGowan contends, provides an avenue for emancipatory politics after the failure of Marxism in the Read more
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Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian Americans .
a Zoom eventSaturday, June 1st, 2024, 9:30am to 12:30pm PDT Program description: Asian Americans are conventionally described as “middle-man minorities,” outside of dominant racial paradigms of white and black, adjunct to white privilege and exempt from the brunt of systemic violence directed against black people. Historical accounts of the in-betweenness of Asian Americans trace their Read more
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Mapping Social Memory
A Psychotherapeutic Psychosocial Approach. Nigel Williams This book is grounded in psychosocial research that explores the complex intergenerational transmission of memories within families and the transgenerational social issues that form a part of those memories. The author demonstrates that the organising framework of moving back and forth between inter- and transgenerational processes is key to Read more
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Book: Brazilian Psychosocial Histories of Psychoanalysis. Palgrave. 2022
Editors: This edited volume provides a critical history of psychoanalysis in Brazil. Written mainly by Brazilian historians and practitioners of psychoanalysis, the chapters address some central questions about psychoanalysis’ social role. How did psychoanalysis develop and flourish in a society in which modernisation was accompanied by inequality, authoritarianism and violence? How did psychoanalysis survive in Read more
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 