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In the second edition of
Uprooted Minds, Hollander offers a unique social psychoanalytic exploration of our increasingly destabilized political environment, augmented by her research into the previously untold history of psychoanalytic engagement in the challenging social issues of our times.
List of contents
Foreword by Daniel José Gaztambide Núñez Introduction 1. Scared Stiff: Social Trauma and the Post-9/11 Political Culture 2. Political Culture and Psychoanalysis in the Southern Cone: Coming Attractions of the Dirty Wars 3. A Psychoanalysis for Tumultuous Times: The Psyche and Social Revolution 4. The Psychosocial Dynamics of State Terror 5. The Culture of Fear and Social Trauma 6. Exile: Paradoxes of Loss and Creativity 7. Neoliberal Democracy in Latin America: Impunity and Economic Meltdown 8. U.S. Neoliberal / Neoconservative Democracy: Psychoanalysis Without the Couch 9. Impunity and Resistance: Saving Democracy in the Heart of Empire 10. The Future's Uprooted Minds Epilogue: Decolonizing Society and Psychoanalysis
About the author
Nancy Caro Hollander is professor emerita of history and a research psychoanalyst in private practice in Oakland, CA. A faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, she is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker and former producer and host of "Just a Minute" for Pacifica Radio. Author of five books, she is published widely in national and international journals.
