Daniel José Gaztambide is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research and practicing psychologist.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: “A Recovery of Historical Memory”: Old Questions and New HorizonsChapter 1: “A Tool to Achieve Power”—Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-SemitismChapter 2: “A Sort of Inner Revolution”—Freud, Ferenczi, Fenichel, and FrommChapter 3: “For Justice, For Equal Treatment for All”—Freud as Proto-Postcolonial TheoristChapter 4: “The Possibility of Love”—Black Psychoanalysis from Harlem to AlgeriaChapter 5: “A Loving Encounter of People”—Freud, Marx, Freire and the Afro-Latinx Origins of ConcientizacaoChapter 6: “To Recognize Ourselves in Our Reality”—Liberation Psychology as Political MentalizationConclusion: “A Preferential Option”BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

A cogent combination of psychoanalysis and liberation theology that produces an original psychology of liberation. Channeling the contributions of Freud, Fanon, Freire and Martín-Baró, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis gives a compelling account of the ignored emancipatory potential of psychoanalysis. Gaztambide’s innovative book is a must-read for anyone interested in an ethics of social justice that gives the unconscious its authentic political dimension.

Daniel José Gaztambide is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research and practicing psychologist.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: “A Recovery of Historical Memory”: Old Questions and New HorizonsChapter 1: “A Tool to Achieve Power”—Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-SemitismChapter 2: “A Sort of Inner Revolution”—Freud, Ferenczi, Fenichel, and FrommChapter 3: “For Justice, For Equal Treatment for All”—Freud as Proto-Postcolonial TheoristChapter 4: “The Possibility of Love”—Black Psychoanalysis from Harlem to AlgeriaChapter 5: “A Loving Encounter of People”—Freud, Marx, Freire and the Afro-Latinx Origins of ConcientizacaoChapter 6: “To Recognize Ourselves in Our Reality”—Liberation Psychology as Political MentalizationConclusion: “A Preferential Option”BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

A cogent combination of psychoanalysis and liberation theology that produces an original psychology of liberation. Channeling the contributions of Freud, Fanon, Freire and Martín-Baró, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis gives a compelling account of the ignored emancipatory potential of psychoanalysis. Gaztambide’s innovative book is a must-read for anyone interested in an ethics of social justice that gives the unconscious its authentic political dimension.

Daniel José Gaztambide is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research and practicing psychologist.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: “A Recovery of Historical Memory”: Old Questions and New HorizonsChapter 1: “A Tool to Achieve Power”—Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-SemitismChapter 2: “A Sort of Inner Revolution”—Freud, Ferenczi, Fenichel, and FrommChapter 3: “For Justice, For Equal Treatment for All”—Freud as Proto-Postcolonial TheoristChapter 4: “The Possibility of Love”—Black Psychoanalysis from Harlem to AlgeriaChapter 5: “A Loving Encounter of People”—Freud, Marx, Freire and the Afro-Latinx Origins of ConcientizacaoChapter 6: “To Recognize Ourselves in Our Reality”—Liberation Psychology as Political MentalizationConclusion: “A Preferential Option”BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

A cogent combination of psychoanalysis and liberation theology that produces an original psychology of liberation. Channeling the contributions of Freud, Fanon, Freire and Martín-Baró, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis gives a compelling account of the ignored emancipatory potential of psychoanalysis. Gaztambide’s innovative book is a must-read for anyone interested in an ethics of social justice that gives the unconscious its authentic political dimension.