Book Announcement by Jean Petrucelli, Sarah Schoen and Naomi Snider (all USA)
This anthology of interviews and essays joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of feminism to provide a timely analysis of the crushing effects of patriarchy and the role that psychoanalysis can play in moving us into a future defined by mutuality and respect.
Departing from the contemporary psychoanalytic view that the sociopolitical and intrapsychic are inextricably linked, contributors use psychoanalysis as a tool to demystify and even dismantle patriarchy, while also examining how our theories, practices and institutions have been implicated in it. Issues under examination in this title from Routledge’s Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series include important and often undertheorized topics such as institutional responses to boundary violations, the search for a black-feminist psychoanalytic theory, patriarchal enactments within the trans community, the persistence of patriarchy within contemporary psychoanalysis, the impacts of patriarchy on diverse patient populations and ways to address this clinically.
Co-editors Jean Petrucelli, Sarah Schoen and Naomi Snider have assembled essays from a wide array of psychoanalytic voices, including Jill Gentile, Katie Gentile, Carol Gilligan, Orna Guralnik, Griffin Hansbury, Lynne Layton, Susie Orbach, Stephen Seligman and Cleonie White, alongside interviews with well-known activists including Gloria Steinem.
Of interest both to psychoanalysts and to those in gender studies wishing to draw on psychoanalytic thinking, Patriarchy and Its Discontents represents the first anthology comprised of voices from both within and outside the psychoanalytic realm, outlining a contemporary feminist psychoanalysis for both an analytic and non-analytic audience.
Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., CEDS-S, FIPA, FABP is training and supervising analyst, director and co-founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service (EDCAS); Conference Advisory Board (CAB) Committee Chair; and Founding Director of the EDCAS one-year educational certificate program at the William Alanson White Institute; Adjunct Clinical Professor and Clinical Consultant for NYU’s Postdoctoral Program; Associate Editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; and editor of six books, including Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders. Dr. Petrucelli presents nationally and internationally and is in private practice in NYC.
Sarah Schoen, Ph.D. is faculty, supervising, and training analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Invited Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and she teaches and writes about contemporary perspectives on gender, narcissism, and the clinical implications of the relational turn. She is in private practice in Manhattan’s Flatiron District.
Naomi Snider, LLM, LP is a psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City. Naomi lectures and publishes on the intersections of social injustice and psychological struggle. Her published works include the 2018 book, Why Does Patriarchy Persist?, co-authored with Carol Gilligan. Prior to becoming a psychoanalyst, Naomi was a lawyer working in the human rights field.
Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D.
New York, NY, USA
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Sarah Schoen, Ph.D.
New York, NY, USA
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Naomi Snider, LLM, LP
New York, NY, USA
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