Psychoanalysis Politics Oppression and Resistance

<p>This innovative text addresses the lack of literature regarding intersectional approaches to psychoanalysis underscoring the importance of thinking through race class and gender within psychoanalytic theory and practice.</p><p>The book tackles the widespread perception of psychoanalysis today as a discipline detached from the progressive ideals of social responsibility institutional psychotherapy and community mental health. Bringing together a range of international contributions the collection explores issues of class politics oppression and resistance within the field of psychoanalysis in cultural theoretical and clinical contexts. It shows how in contrast to this misperception psychoanalysis has been attentive to these ideals from its origins as well as demonstrating how it continues to be relevant today through wide-ranging conceptual discussions of the anti-globalization Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements.</p><p>Written in an accessible style <i>Psychoanalysis Politics Oppression and Resistance</i> will be essential reading for practicing psychoanalysts as well as academics and students in a range of humanities and social sciences fields.</p>