by Molly Merson, MFT

The Reign of One’s Own Desire. Daniel Gatzambide interviews Sheldon George on his book Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study on African American Identity, including an exploration of how Lacanian jouissance is played out via slavery and racism.

How colonialism and capitalism helped place a stigma on mental illness. This book review describes author Grinker’s argument that settler colonialism and capitalism (now neoliberalism) has created divisions between psyche, spirit, body, and society in such a way to stigmatize mental illness and psychic suffering as a non-normative human experience.

Latinx Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalyst Patricia Gherovici shares a “mental health minute” video about psychoanalytic work in Argentina and the United States.