A People’s History of Psychoanalysis

From Freud to Liberation Psychology

Daniel José Gaztambide author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:9th Dec '19

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Is psychoanalysis too “White” and upper class to be relevant to social and racial justice? Are its ideas and practices too “alien” for people of color? Can it shed light on why systems of oppression are so stable, and how oppression becomes internalized? In A People’s History of Psychoanalysis, the author reviews the oft-forgotten history of social justice in psychoanalysis, showing how Freud and the first generation of psychoanalysts developed a way of thinking about racial and economic inequality that informed later movements for Black and Latin American liberation. He traces a series of interpersonal and intellectual relationships between psychoanalysis and Black anti-Racist and post-colonial struggle culminating in the work of Frantz Fanon; Afro-Latinx and Latin American thinkers fighting anti-Blackness and capitalist exploitation which inspired Paulo Freire’s theory of critical consciousness; and Spanish psychiatrists and psychologists resisting fascism and inequality from Spain to El Salvador, setting the foundation for Ignacio Martin-Baro’s Liberation Psychology. Throughout this intellectual genealogy from Freud to Liberation Psychology the author outlines a consistent psychoanalytically-informed theory of race, class and the internalization of oppression developed by analytic thinkers fighting against inequality across generations. Such theorizing proves indispensable in contemporary political activism, pedagogy, and clinical work.

A cogent combination of psychoanalysis and liberation theology that produces an original psychology of liberation. Channeling the contributions of Freud, Fanon, Freire and Martín-Baró, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis gives a compelling account of the ignored emancipatory potential of psychoanalysis. Gaztambide’s innovative book is a must-read for anyone interested in an ethics of social justice that gives the unconscious its authentic political dimension. -- Patricia Gherovici, author of Transgender Psychoanalysis
A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology contributes mightily to the healing of psychoanalysis’ self-inflicted wound: the amputation of issues of social justice from those of psychological well-being. Daniel Jose Gaztambide redresses depth psychology’s amnesia regarding early psychoanalytic work at the intersection of psyche and community. By integrating the histories of liberation psychology and psychoanalytic thought, Gaztambide points to a future where those committed to psychological thriving must attend to issues of social justice. -- Mary Watkins, Pacifica Graduate Institute; author of Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons; coauthor of Toward Psychologies of Liberation
Daniel Jose Gaztambide offers a welcomed rethinking of the place psychoanalysis has held in struggles for social justice. With compelling evidence and detail, Gaztambide charts a network of influences that extend from psychoanalytic figures like Sigmund Freud to founders of Liberation Psychology like Frantz Fanon and Paulo Freire. -- Sheldon George, Simmons University; author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Identity
Dr. Gaztambide's timely, fascinating, scholarly, and highly readable book revives an aspect of the history of psychoanalysis that is often forgotten: its involvement in the fight for social justice. The author has unearthed the works of several early psychoanalysts and analytically informed clinicians whose ideas were instrumental in the formation of psychoanalytic theory and practice, but who are not frequently discussed in our field. * American Imago *

ISBN: 9781498565745

Dimensions: 234mm x 160mm x 25mm

Weight: 590g

270 pages