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

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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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