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Freud's free clinics: Psychoanalysis & social justice, 1918-1938. New York: Columbia University Press.
Today many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. However, in this new work Elizabeth Ann Danto presents a strikingly different picture of Freud and the early psychoanalytic movement. Danto recovers the neglected history of Freud and other analysts’ intense social activism and their commitment… Read more
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The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation and Hidden Grief
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act–a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and… Read more
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The Future of Prejudice: Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice Edited by Henri Parens, Afaf Mahfouz, Stuart W. Twemlow, and David E. Scharff Lanham, MD
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice. Read more
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Traces of Violence and Freedom of Thought
BOOK DESCRIPTION We are all tainted, whether we are actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless and troubling manifestations. Images and fragments of traumatic and violent scenarios are transported from one generation’s unconscious to that of another, leading to cycles of repetition and retaliation, restricting one’s freedom to imagine alternatives and inhabit alternative… Read more
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Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice: A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination
This book helps us understand the current resurgence of social prejudice against ethnic minority groups, the logics of scapegoating and the resulting violence. Our time is characterised by a growth in expressed hostility and violence towards people who are perceived as ‘others’. Hatred towards and discrimination against minorities is on the rise. This book presents… Read more
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Black Psychoanalysts Speak
To download this video for a fee or purchase a DVD, please contact blackpsychoanalystsspeak@gmail.com The analysts featured in this documentary contend that psychoanalysis has a long history as a progressive movement devoted to the common good. Psychoanalysis asks us to examine the processes of self deception that perpetuate both individual unhappiness and social… Read more
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Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 