People's History of Psychoanalysis

Florent Gabarron-Garcia is a psychoanalyst, psychologist and doctor in psychopathology. He lectures at University Paris 8. After teaching philosophy in high school, he trained in institutional analysis at the La Borde clinic, later working in the psychiatric hospital and in the CMPP. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Chimères, founded by Deleuze and Guattari. He currently lives in France.Shuli Branson is an anarchist writer, translator, editor, and teacher, currently living on unceded Lenape land (so-called New York). She is the author of Practical Anarchism. Shuli translated The Abolition of Prison by Jacques Lesage de la Haye, and edited Surviving the Future: Queer Abolitionist Strategies. She hosts the podcast, The Breakup Theory, conversations on ending things and collective liberation, and is a member of the worker-writer collective CAW Journal.

• IntroductionI. Freud looks to the East. Vera Schmidt and Psychoanalysis in the Land of the Soviets II. Wilhelm Reich, from the Vienna Polyclinic at Sexpol in Berlin III. The future of Freudian pessimism IV. Marie Langer: from Vienna in the 1930sto Latin America in the 1970s V. Of the Catalan municipalityat the La Borde clinic VI. Revival of revolutionary psychoanalysisin Germany: the Heidelberg experience Conclusion: For another psychoanalysis