Moving from Grievance to Hope in Psychoanalysis

Applied Case Studies
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-11040-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 343 g

Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

This volume brings psychoanalytic thinking and practice directly into the social forces that shape our lives, covering intergenerational trauma, cultural difference, divisive ideologies, environmental degradation, and entrenched social hierarchies.

Through clinical case studies from leading thinkers in the field, the contributors each show how analysts work in social and collective spaces to dissolve dissociative barriers, address relational ruptures, and cross-translate across polarizing tensions of difference. Enlisting capacities for collaborative meaning-making and interpersonal recognition, and drawing on empathy, imagination, and emotional expansion, the authors demonstrate how psychoanalytic practice can foster healing in communities navigating complex social and political challenges.

Essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and mental health professionals, this volume also guides students and scholars in applying psychoanalytic presence to urgent contemporary challenges, including social fragmentation, political polarization, and ecological crisis.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dobrich, Johanna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychodynamische Psychotherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Beyond Borders: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Refugee Healing 2. From Destruction to Growth: Multimodal Psychoanalytic Aid for War-Traumatized Chechen Children 3. Social Psychoanalysis, Silencing, and Racial Violence 4. Traveling Through Time: A Group Intervention in N. Ireland 5. Writing Matrescence: Therapeutic Writing Retreats as Collective Containers for Transgenerational Healing 6. Confronting the American Gun Complex: A Jungian Analysis of Mass Shootings 7. Grievance, Grief, and Group Building in Community Psychoanalysis: Addressing the Needs of Asylum-Seeking Children and Students with Disabilities through Collaborative Consultation with Educators in a New York City Public School 8. Ethnocultural Identity and Attachment: Unraveling Legacies of Self-Erasure 9. Knowing and Not Knowing About Our Climate Crisis: From Eco-Neglect to Mutual Sustenance on Planet Earth

Conclusion: The "Field" as Patient: Psychoanalytic Practice Beyond the Individual

Über Autor(innen)

Johanna Dobrich, LCSW, is a New York City–based psychoanalyst, teacher, supervisor, and clinician specializing in the treatment of complex trauma and dissociative disorders. She teaches and consults widely, exploring relational dynamics, dissociation, and attachment. Johanna is the author of Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis (2021) and recipient of the 2023 ISSTD Sandor Ferenczi Award.