Psychoanalysis in the Barrios

Race, Class, and the Unconscious

Patricia Gherovici, Christopher Christian, Patricia Gherovici, Christopher Christian

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780429793608
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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.

Index

Abi-Rached, J. 106–107, 118

Abraham, K. 25–27, 36

Abrevaya, E. 87, 90, 95

Adler, A. 24, 26–27

Adorno, T. 225, 234n2, 234

Agamben, G. 197–198, 202

aggression 39, 47, 49, 73, 81–82, 111–112, 205–206, 208–209, 217

Aguirre, C. 136, 141

Agustín Martínez, J. 131, 138

AIDS 13, 174–175, 182

Ainslie, R. vii, xi, 12, 14, 54–68

Akhtar, S. 54, 67

Aldama, F. L. 174–175, 181, 183, 185

Alexander, M. 14, 218

Alfonso, J. C. 121, 138

alienation 13, 74, 77, 114

Allen, V. L. 10, 15

Allison, E. 209, 219

Alonso, G. 136, 138

Alschuler, L. 210–213, 218

Althusser, L. 40

Altman, N. 9, 15, 40, 210, 218

Alvarez, A. 38, 52

Alvarez, E. 136, 138

Álvarez-Curbelo, S. 228–230, 234–235

American Federation of Music 157

American Psychiatric Association 71, 82, 84

Ansell, E. B. 220

Antonio/case of 190–202

Anzaldúa, G. 152, 154

Apollon, W. 89, 92–96

aporophobia 88

Archivos de Medicina Legal 138

Argentina, psychoanalysis in 23, 34, 39–52, 225–226

Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared 39, 52

Argentine Psychoanalytic Association 40–42

Argentine Team of Psychosocial Work and Investigation, The 47

Aristotle 197

Aron, L. 9, 15

Arturo/case of 62–67

ataque de nervios 12, 71–85, 231, 233; see also Puerto Rican syndrome

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• SECTION I Freud with a Spanish accent: The Latin American experience of the psychic being political
• SECTION II Pathology of otherness: Diagnosis in the barrio
• SECTION III The Latino queer body: Mourning, melancholia, and the law
• SECTION IV The clinical is political
• Index