RU43: Dr Lara Sheehi, psychoanalytic practitioner, scholar, activist, liberation, decolonial, Fanon

Today’s discussion is with Dr. Lara Sheehi, psychoanalytic practitioner-scholar and activist (she/her/hers). "Psychoanalysis reminds us that we must reclaim the disavowed to move to health. In thinking of this, here is my ethically imperative commitment, as a clinician, to a liberatory psychoanalysis and a decolonial praxis--and a challenge/entreaty to all clinicians to take this up in every space, every day" Dr. Sheehi is co-organizing the 40th Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39 - Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), March 18-21, 2020, New York City: www.division39springmeeting.com Dr. Sheehi presented her work at the conference Psychoanalysis and Politics: Colonial Fantasies, Violent Transmission, Swedish Psychoanalytic Association, Stockholm, May 10-12, 2019: www.psa-pol.org/colonial-fantasies-programme/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Episodes are also created from lectures given at various international conferences. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): www.trapart.net If you enjoy what we’re doing, please support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at: Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud Please visit www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ for links to all of these sites. For more, please visit the following websites: www.renderingunconscious.org www.drvanessasinclair.net www.trapart.net www.division39springmeeting.com The track at the end of the episode is "It Started with the Alarm" from the album of the same name. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Sheer Zed: vanessasinclairsheerzed.bandcamp.com/album/it-started-with-the-alarm Artwork for the Division 39 Spring Meeting: www.division39springmeeting.com