Psychoanalysis Under Occupation

<p>Heavily influenced by Frantz Fanon and critically engaging the theories of decoloniality and liberatory psychoanalysis Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi platform the lives perspectives and insights of psychoanalytically inflected Palestinian psychologists psychiatrists and other mental health professionals centering the stories that non-clinical Palestinians have entrusted to them over four years of community engagement with clinicians throughout historic Palestine.</p><p>Sheehi and Sheehi document the stories of Palestinian clinicians in relation to settler colonialism and violence but even more so in relation to their patients communities families and one another (as a clinical community). In doing so they track the appearance of settler colonialism as a psychologically extractive process one that is often effaced by discourses of normalization trauma resilience and human rights with the aid of clinicians as well as psychoanalysis.</p><p><i>Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine </i>unpacks the intersection of psychoanalysis as a psychological practice in Palestine while also advancing a set of therapeutic theories in which to critically engage and read the politically complex array of conditions that define life for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.</p>