Psychoanalysis under occupation : practicing resistance in Palestine

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Title
"Psychoanalysis under occupation : practicing resistance in Palestine"
Statement of Responsibility
Lara Sheehi, Stephen Sheehi
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2022
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "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. 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. ...

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