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Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas

By Nancy Caro Hollander

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2010
ISBN
0881634913, 9780881634914
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6138014 bytes)
Series
Relational Perspectives Book Series
Edition
1
Pages
432\428
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2016-09-18 10:28:21
Fitness & Dieting;Psychoanalysis;Psychology & CounFitness & Dieting;Psychoanalysis;Psychology;TerrorMental Health;Anxiety Disorders;Attention Deficit

Description

In our post-9/11 environment, our sense of relative security and stability as privileged subjects living in the heart of Empire has been profoundly shaken. Hollander explores the forces that have brought us to this critical juncture, analyzing the role played by the neoliberal economic paradigm and conservative political agenda that emerged in the West over the past four decades with devastating consequences for the hemisphere's citizens. Narrative testimonies of progressive U.S. and Latin American psychoanalysts illuminate the psychological meanings of living under authoritarian political conditions and show how a psychoanalysis "beyond the couch" contributes to social struggles on behalf of human rights and redistributive justice. By interrogating themes related to the mutual effects of social power and ideology, large group dynamics and unconscious fantasies, affects and defenses, Hollander encourages reflections about our experience as social/psychological subjects.

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