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Reaching across boundaries of culture and class: Widening the scope of psychotherapy. New York: Jason Aronson.
This volume shows how contemporary methods can be used to treat patients often previously thought unresponsive to psychodynamic therapy. Cultural values, countertransference guilt, immigration, bilingualism, and poor self esteem in African-American patients are among the topics discussed. About the Editor(s) Michael Moskowitz PhD is a psychoanalyst and organizational consultant in New York City, an adjunct associate Read more
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Revealing Whiteness The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege – Shannon Sullivan (author)
Revealing Whiteness explores how white privilege operates as an unseen, invisible, and unquestioned norm in society today. In this personal and self-searching book, Shannon Sullivan interrogates her own whiteness and how being white has affected her. By looking closely at the subtleties of white domination, she issues a call for other white people to own Read more
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DR STEVEN REISNER ON PSYCHOANALYSIS, CAPITALISM, POLITICAL ACTIVISM – RENDERING UNCONSCIOUS
Steven Reisner, PhD is a psychoanalyst, psychologist and political activist. He is a founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, Advisor on Psychology and Ethics for Physicians for Human Rights and past-President of Psychologists for Social Responsibility. He was a leader in the successful movement to prohibit psychologists from their central role in Read more
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Rendering Unconscious Podcast Daniel José Gaztambide on Psychoanalysis & Liberation Psychology
Today’s episode of Rendering Unconscious Podcast welcomes Daniel José Gaztambide, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research and practicing psychologist. His new book A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology reviews the oft-forgotten history of social justice in psychoanalysis. Starting with the work of Read more
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Desiring Whiteness A Lacanian Analysis of Race
Desiring Whiteness provides a compelling new interpretation of how we understand race. Race is often seen to be a social construction. Nevertheless, we continue to deploy race thinking in our everyday life as a way of telling people apart visually.How do subjects become raced? Is it common sense to read bodies as racially marked? Employing Read more
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Class and psychoanalysis: landscapes of inequality
Does psychoanalysis have anything to say about the emotional landscapes of class? How can class-inclusive psychoanalytic projects, historic and contemporary, inform theory and practice? Class and psychoanalysis are unusual bedfellows but this original book shows how much is to be gained by exploring their relationship. Joanna Ryan provides a comprehensively researched and challenging overview in Read more
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 