With Dr. Lara Sheehi
Day Time
Dates:
What is the relationship between a revolutionary spirit and therapeutic thought and practice?
This series of seminars with Dr Lara Sheehi will provide an opportunity to engage with the work of Frantz Fanon and what he has to speak into this moment.
We are most accustomed to Frantz Fanon’s work as central to Post-Colonial Studies and Comparative Literature, disciplines that have long recognized how his revolutionary theories were integral to liberation struggles and global cross-solidarity movements. With the publication of Alienation and Freedom (2018, Eds., Khalfa & Young) we were again reminded of the power and importance of Fanon the psychiatrist, the clinician, and the psychoanalyst. In this class, we will work against the “Fanonian renaissance” lore and together put Fanon’s seminal theoretical work in conversation with his clinical papers in an attempt to disrupt the split between Fanon as revolutionary and Fanon as Clinician.
Lara Sheehi, PsyD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program where she is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor’s 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA, Division 39), the Chair of the Teachers’ Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Lara is also a contributing editor to the Psychosocial Foundation’s Parapraxis Magazine and on the advisory board for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride.
Resources:
Frantz Fanon died in 1961, aged 36. The same week he died, The Wretched of the Earth was published. And on the very same day, the book was confiscated and banned in France.
The film Concerning Violence is based on the book. You can see it here: https://archive.org/details/concerning-violence-documentary
Interview with Lara Sheehi:
Jean-Paul Sartre on Frantz Fanon on what would have been his 90th birthday (1925-1961)
The Relational School 