Psychoanalysis and the Future of the Clinic
Hannah Zeavin was featured in the event of a conversation about psychoanalysis and the future of the clinic on September 29, 2022.
Who is psychoanalysis for? Is it an archaic hobby of the bourgeoisie, or is there a version of psychoanalysis meaningful to all? How can this time-intensive and often costly technique of self-inquiry be made both available and useful to people dealing with ongoing threats to well-being, like economic hardship or racialized trauma? What are the possibilities and limitations of practicing psychoanalysis in conditions of extreme social duress, like colonial occupation? 20th-century practitioners from Wilhelm Reich to Frantz Fanon saw these questions as central to the field and created clinical practices with them in mind. Today, a new generation of clinicians has extended that legacy to challenge the reigning paradigm of mental health care as a form of behavior management, reviving psychoanalysis—with its vision of a slow path to self-knowledge as a mode of healing—in the process. Join theorists and practitioners hannah baer, Hannah Zeavin, and Lara Sheehi, along with Jewish Currents editor Ari M. Brostoff, for a conversation about psychoanalysis and the future of the clinic.
To see the full review of this past event, please watch it here.