Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique

Daniel José Gaztambide, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Frantz Fanon Lab for Decolonial Psychology at Queens College-CUNY, USA. He is the author of A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology (2019), and the recipient of a presidential citation from the American Psychological Association as part of the Presidential Taskforce on Strategies for the Elimination of Racism, Discrimination, and Hate. Gaztambide is the recipient of a Mellon Foundation Fellowship and a Miranda Family Fellowship to support his research and analytic training at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a practitioner in private practice, and an active artist and member of the Puerto Rican poetry troupe, the Titere Poets.

• Preface.- Introduction.- Part I: Theoretical Foundations of Decolonial Psychoanalysis.- Chapter 1: Returning to the Clinical and Critical Freud.- Chapter 2: The Return of Ferenczi and the Advent of the Relational Tradition: Promises and Limitations.- Chapter 3: Retrieving the Decolonial Lacan: The Subject Between Psyche and Society.- Chapter 4: Retrieving the Clinical Fanon: From Healing Relationships to Transformative Systems.- Chapter 5: Putting Freud on Fanon’s Couch: The Birth of Decolonial Psychoanalysis.- Chapter 6: Putting the Pieces Together: Theoretical Synthesis and Clinical Illustrations.- Part II: The Evidence Base for A Decolonial .- Approach: A Synthesis of Relevant Literatures.- Chapter 7: The Brain is Structured Like a Language: The Embodied.- Associative Brain.- Chapter 8: Attachment Between Culture and Society: Relationality in Social Context.- Chapter 9: Integrating Multicultural Psychology and Basic Science: Psychotherapy between.- Attachment and Social Rank.- Conclusion: A Psychotherapy for All.- Bibliography.- Index.