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Gratitude and a (re)introduction
Dear readers, It’s hard to believe it’s been over five years since I’ve created this website, partly as a way of coping with COVID isolation, partly, as a way of connecting with like-minded folx around psychoanalysis and social justice. At first, the name of the website seemed redundant: shouldn’t the practice and theory of psychoanalysis… Read more
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Encounters Between Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory – Eve Watson, PhD (Recorded)
Sexuality studies and queer theory have long drawn from psychoanalysis in centralizing sexuality within human experience. Psychoanalysis, for its, part, has benefitted from the work of sexuality studies, beginning with Freud’s interest in the work of Krafft-Ebing and the sexologists. This talk explores this important relationship as well as its tensions which continue today and… Read more
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Book: Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times by Michael Diamond
This book describes Trumpism: the strong allegiance to former President Donald Trump that is in evidence among a sizable portion of the US population. How did Trump come to be elected in 2016, and who supported him during his presidential tenure – and why? How is it that he continues to hold cult-like status, exerting… Read more
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December 12 and 13, online: The Challenge of Racism: A Black Empathic Approach to Therapeutic Practice
Engaging with Oppression in Practice, Supervision and Training Friday 12th December 2025, 5.00pm – 8.00pm (online) &Saturday 13th December 2025, 9.30am – 5.00pm (online) Outline This workshop is presented by BIPOC Masters trained by Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga in a ‘Black Empathic approach’ to therapy and the challenge of racism. This training is currently running online.… Read more
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Psychoanalysis and Colonialism / New Issue by Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2025
Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society has been in continuous publication since 1996. It was founded by an international group of academics to provide a space where critical intellectuals from the fields of politics, cultural studies, and the humanities, as well as both academic and clinical psychoanalysts could engage in dialog to understand pressing social trends. A key… Read more
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Cornerstones of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Series: CHRISTINE ANZIEU-PREMMEREUR’S / BEYOND WAR. MAKING PEACE WITH LIFE.
FREE ASSOCIATION LISBON Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is a psychiatrist and adult and child psychoanalyst in New York, a member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, and the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center. She chairs the IPA Committee for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) and is co-founder of Pulsion Institute. She published on Addiction, Infantile Depression, the Process of… Read more
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