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Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy.
As opposed to most Latin American countries, where psychoanalysis is seen as a practice tied to the promotion of social justice, in the United States psychoanalysis has been viewed as reserved for the well-to-do, assuming that poor people lack the "sophistication" that psychoanalysis requires, thus heeding invisible but no less rigid class boundaries. Challenging such discrimination, the authors testify to the efficacy of psychoanalysis in the barrios, upending the unfounded widespread belief that poor people are so consumed with the pressures of everyday survival that they only benefit from symptom-focused interventions. Sharing vivid vignettes of psychoanalytic treatments, this collection sheds light on the psychological complexities of life in the barrio that is often marked by poverty, migration, marginalization, and barriers of language, class, and race.
This interdisciplinary collection features essays by distinguished international scholars and clinicians. It represents a unique crossover that will appeal to readers in clinical practice, social work, counselling, anthropology, psychology, cultural and Latino studies, queer studies, urban studies, and sociology.
Contents
Introduction Patricia Gherovici Section I: Freud with a Spanish Accent: The Latin American Experience of the Psychic Being Political Chapter 1. Freud and the Latin Americans: A Forgotten Relationship Mariano Plotkin Chapter 2: Psychoanalysts Bearing Witness: Trauma and Memory in Latin America Nancy Hollander Chapter 3: Dying to Get Out: Challenges in the Treatment of Latin American Migrants Fleeing Violent Communities Ricardo Ainslie, Hannah McDermott, Crystal Guevara Section II. Pathology of Otherness: Diagnosis in the Barrio Chapter 4: The Analyst as Interpreter: Ataque de Nervios, Puerto Rican Syndrome, and The Inexact Interpretation Christopher Christian Chapter 5: The Anxiety of Citizenship or the Psychotic as Citizen Alfredo Carrasquillo Chapter 6: Eating Brains: Latinx Barrios, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience Antonio Viego Section III. The Latino Queer Body: Mourning, Melancholía, and the Law Chapter 7: Visible Pleasure and Sex Policing: State, Science, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Cuba Jennifer Lambe Chapter 8: Melancholia and the Abject on Mango Street: Racialized Narratives /Psychoanalysis Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui Chapter 9: Chencha's Gait: Voice and Nothing in Myrta Silva Licia Fiol Matta Chapter 10: Beside Oneself: Queer Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetics of Latinidad Joshua Javier Guzmán Section IV. The Clinical is Political Chapter 11: The Political Potentiality of the Psychoanalytic Process Carlos Padrón Chapter 12: Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio: Integrating Race and Class into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Daniel Gaztambide Chapter 13: Psychoanalysis of Poverty, Poverty of Psychoanalysis Patricia Gherovici
