Book Announcement by Johanna Dobrich (USA)

Dobrich, J. (Ed.). (2026). Moving from grievance to hope in psychoanalysis: Applied case studies. Routledge.

In Moving from Grievance to Hope in Psychoanalysis: Applied Case Studies, published as part of Routledge’s Psychoanalysis in a New Key series, Johanna Dobrich offers a volume bringing psychoanalytic thinking and practice directly into the social forces that shape our lives, exploring themes such as intergenerational trauma, the legacies of both war and refugee displacement, cultural difference, matrescence, gun violence, environmental degradation, and the ways that entrenched social hierarchies shape our theories of mind.

Through clinical case studies from leading thinkers in the field, the book’s contributors, including IARPP members Karen Hopenwasser, Billie Pivnick, and Tracy Sidesinger, examine how psychoanalytic practitioners can work within 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.

www.routledge.com/Moving-from-Grievance-to-Hope-in-Psychoanalysis

Johanna Dobrich, MA, LCSW-R, is a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, educator, and author in New York City. She remains affiliated as a supervisor and educator in the Trauma Studies Program at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and has previously taught at PPSC and NIP. She supervises clinicians at several psychoanalytic institutes and maintains a private practice specializing in the treatment of complex trauma and dissociation. She is the author of Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis and editor of Moving from Grievance to Hope in Psychoanalysis: Applied Case Studies (Routledge).

Johanna Dobrich, MA, LCSW-R
New York, NY, USA
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