Psychoanalysis in Society

by Molly Merson, MFT

New Books in Psychoanalysis: Podcast featuring Daniel José Gatzambide. In this podcast episode, Dr. Gatzambide takes up his newest book, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology. Gatzambide weaves his personal story in coming to the field of psychoanalysis with the story of psychoanalysis itself.

Violence Has No Gender. This Boston Review book review highlights the complexities of gender and the genderlessness of the unconscious and of violence, alongside feminist, psychoanalytic, and critical theories within Jacqueline Rose’s book On Violence and On Violence Against Women.

Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Psychology: An Interview with Bethany Morris. Dr. Morris describes her take on the intersections between psychoanalysis and society while diving into questions regarding both the structural components of social/group identity as well as the individual meaning-making of each subject.