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“If you’re looking for another book on victims of apartheid-induced trauma or a psychoanalysis of occupation, this is not it. Instead, Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi have written a brilliant, insurgent work of decolonial theory and practice that centers the labor of Palestinian cli- nicians and their patients seeking to restore and sustain a sense of self, community, cultural integrity, and `presence’ under the violence of settler colonialism. Building on and moving beyond Frantz Fanon, the authors understand the project of psychoanalysis in Palestine is not adjustment but resistance, liberation, and ultimately decolonization.” — Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination “Psychoanalysis Under Occupation makes a compelling argument that in- terrupts settler colonial epistemic violence. Theorized and discussed in a robust, sophisticated, and well-argued manner, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation prioritizes Palestinian clinician’s expressions, conceptualiz- ing an Arab Palestinian theory of psychoanalyses and resistance. Lara and Stephen Sheehi’s thoughtful and sensitive examination of al-nafs is a major contribution to psychoanalytic decolonial feminist knowledge produced as/through a liberatory struggle.” — Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Chair in Global Law, Queen Mary University of London and Professor of Criminology and Social Work, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem “How must one deal with the mental suffering of Palestinian patients? Based on an exhaustive analysis of the work of clinicians in Palestine, Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi reject the paradigms of trauma and re- silience, make the thought-provoking argument that these patients’ psy- chic life cannot be reduced to their experience of settler colonialism’s violence, and assert that their subjectivities remain open to desire, eman- cipation, and the will to live.” — Didier Fassin, Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and to the Annual Chair of Public Health at the Collège de France “Sometimes a book shakes you to your very core and makes you see the field you’ve practiced in for forty years in an entirely new way. This is that book. In bringing readers into the material realities of Palestinian life under Israeli Occupation, introducing us to Palestinian clinicians, patients, Israeli and Palestinian supervisors, Sheehi and Sheehi show clearly that the way psychoanalysis is deployed is literally a matter of life and death. They reveal the multiple ways psychoanalysis is mis-used by those consciously or unconsciously bent on normalizing a violent status quo. At the same time, by letting us listen in on the multiple ways that Palestinian patients and clinicians resist allowing their minds and bodies to be occupied, they reveal what is possible when psychoanalysis aims at liberation.” — Lynne Layton, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis Under Occupation 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 psychoanalyti- cally 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 re- lation to settler colonialism and violence but, even more so, in relation to their patients, communities, families, and one another (as a clinical com- munity). 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 Occupation: 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. Lara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University Professional Psychology program. Her work is on decolonial struggles as well as power, race, class, and gen- der constructs and dynamics within psychoanalysis. Lara is the secretary and president-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology and is the chair of the Teachers’ Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is co-editor of Studies in Gender & Sexu- ality and of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Lara is on the advisory board to the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride. Stephen Sheehi (he/him) is the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at William & Mary, where he is also Professor of Arabic Studies in the Asian and Middle East Studies Program, Arabic Program, and Asian and Pacific Islander American Studies Program. His research interest is in the in- tellectual and cultural history of the Arab world (including indigenous photography), Islamophobia in the United States and Europe, and liber- ation thought and praxis in the context of colonialism, racism, capital- ism, sexism, and cis-heteronormativity. He is the author of a number of books including Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (with Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar), Arab Imago: A So- cial History of Portrait Photography, 1860–1910, and Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims and Foundations of Modern Arab Identity. Psychoanalytic Political Theory Edited by Matthew H. Bowker, Medaille College and David W. McIvor, Colorado State University Psychoanalytic Political Theory provides a publishing space for the highest quality scholarship at the intersection of psychoanalysis and normative political theory. It offers a forum for texts that deepen our understanding of the complex relationships between the world of politics and the world of the psyche. Recently Published Books The Lucid Vigil Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique Stella Gaon Individuality and Ideology in British Object Relations Theory Gal Gerson The Psychopathology of Political Ideologies Robert Samuels Psychoanalysis Under Occupation Practicing Resistance in Palestine Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi Psychoanalysis Under Occupation Practicing Resistance in Palestine Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi First published 2022 by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 Taylor & Francis The right of Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this title has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-59620-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-07869-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-48788-0 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9780429487880 Typeset in Times New Roman by codeMantra نيطسلف ريرحت وحن ةيبرعلا ةروثلا و
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