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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
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[Open Access] Tiempos de Autoritarismo ¿Qué podemos decir desde el psicoanálisis? Sumisión, resentimiento,duelo y perdón. Revista Trópicos. Revista de la Sociedad Psicoanalítica de Caracas. 2021
ÍNDICE Presentación 9 Autoritarismo y osos danzantes: Implicaciones para un nuevo comienzo – Jonathan Sklar Comentarios a la conferencia “Autoritarismo y osos danzantes:Implicaciones para un nuevo comienzo” – Luisa Elena Álvarez Comentarios a la conferencia “Autoritarismo y osos danzantes:Implicaciones para un nuevo comienzo” – Margareta Hargitay Enfermedad populista– Carlos Rasquin Comentarios a la conferencia “Enfermedad… Read more
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The Palestine Mental Health Networks (PMHN)- Psychoanalysis of Conscience: A call to Resign from the International Psychoanalytic Association
We, the Palestine Mental Health Networks (PMHN), write as a collective of mental health professionals, many of us psychoanalysts, from twenty-three nations. We are brought together by our commitment to psychoanalytic principles and to the fundamental dignity of all human beings—a category from which Palestinians are often excluded. Please join our call. Add your name… Read more
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Call for Summer School Application: Global Mental Health and Human Rights: Confronting 21st-Century Authoritarianism and Racial Supremacy. Venice International University. July 6-10, 2026.
July 6-10, 2026 Call for applications: December 2, 2025 – March 10, 2026 Amid the prevailing global instability, the immediate repercussions of warfare and political violence have echoed, sparking conflicts and precipitating substantial forced migration. This reality is starkly manifest across the globe, epitomized by the enduring conflict and extensive displacement observed in the war-ravaged region… Read more
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Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes. Lynne Layton, Edited by Marianna Leavy-Sperounis. 2020.
Description Frantz Fanon, Erich Fromm, Pierre Bourdieu, and Marie Langer are among those activists, clinicians, and academics who have called for a social psychoanalysis. For over thirty years, Lynne Layton has heeded this call and produced a body of work that examines unconscious process as it operates both in the social world and in the clinic.… Read more
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Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 