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Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine
Heavily influenced by Frantz Fanon and critically engaging the theories of decoloniality and liberatory psychoanalysis, Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi platform the lives, perspectives, and insights of psychoanalytically inflected Palestinian psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals, centering the stories that non-clinical Palestinians have entrusted to them over four years of community engagement with clinicians throughout historic Palestine.
Sheehi and Sheehi document the stories of Palestinian clinicians in relation to settler colonialism and violence but, even more so, in relation to their patients, communities, families, and one another (as a clinical community). In doing so, they track the appearance of settler colonialism as a psychologically extractive process, one that is often effaced by discourses of "normalization," "trauma," "resilience," and human rights, with the aid of clinicians, as well as psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis Under Practicing Resistance in Palestine unpacks the intersection of psychoanalysis as a psychological practice in Palestine, while also advancing a set of therapeutic theories in which to critically engage and "read" the politically complex array of conditions that define life for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.
Sheehi and Sheehi document the stories of Palestinian clinicians in relation to settler colonialism and violence but, even more so, in relation to their patients, communities, families, and one another (as a clinical community). In doing so, they track the appearance of settler colonialism as a psychologically extractive process, one that is often effaced by discourses of "normalization," "trauma," "resilience," and human rights, with the aid of clinicians, as well as psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis Under Practicing Resistance in Palestine unpacks the intersection of psychoanalysis as a psychological practice in Palestine, while also advancing a set of therapeutic theories in which to critically engage and "read" the politically complex array of conditions that define life for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.
- GenresPsychoanalysis
227 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 11, 2021
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September 24, 2025I discovered the Sheehis yesterday, and I'm obsessed with them! (Thank you for the desperately-needed dopamine boost)
Listening to Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi's podcast episode about this book, and I actually wanna read it right now 😭:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/psychoana...
This book is written from the framework of my dreams. Exactly the kind of knowledge I wanna engage with, and aligns perfectly with my research framework: anti-colonial feminism, decolonial, and Fanon!
But alas, my lit review awaits, and I can't diverge to a new topic rn. 😭
PS. Although I would never set foot in america, I'd like Prof Sheehi to be my supervisor one day.
Listening to Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi's podcast episode about this book, and I actually wanna read it right now 😭:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/psychoana...
This book is written from the framework of my dreams. Exactly the kind of knowledge I wanna engage with, and aligns perfectly with my research framework: anti-colonial feminism, decolonial, and Fanon!
But alas, my lit review awaits, and I can't diverge to a new topic rn. 😭
PS. Although I would never set foot in america, I'd like Prof Sheehi to be my supervisor one day.
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