Book Launch: Towards a Social Psychoanalysis by Lynne Layton and Ed. by Marianna Leavy-Sperounis

Book Launch and Discussion: Lynne Layton and Marianna Leavy-Sperounis will be talking about Towards a Social Psychoanalysis. The book is part of the Relational Perspectives Book Series from Routeledge and spans 20 years of Lynne’s work addressing the psychological and the therapeutic as political landscapes.  Layton draws on relational and other analytic theories and practices to deepen our understanding of the conscious and unconscous psychic effects of neo-liberalism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and much more. 

Lynne and Marianna will be in conversation with TRS Chair Robert Downes and Foluke Taylor. 

Lynne Layton
Lynne is a psychoanalyst and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Part-time, Harvard Medical School. Holding a Ph.D. in psychology as well as comparative literature, she has taught courses on gender, popular culture and on culture and psychoanalysis for Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. Currently, she teaches and supervises at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (Routledge, 2004), co-editor, with Barbara Schapiro, of Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self (NYU Press, 1986); co-editor, with Susan Fairfield and Carolyn Stack, of Bringing the Plague. Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2002), and co-editor, with Nancy Caro Hollander and Susan Gutwill of Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting (Routledge, 2006). She is co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, associate editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and co-founder of the Boston Psychosocial Work Group.

Foluke Taylor
Psychotherapist and author working from within a black feminist relational analytic to support experiments in living and living otherwise. A therapeutic practice grounded in understanding race, gender, sexuality and class as psychodynamic processes constantly being navigated, and a formulation of the therapeutic relationship as sacred exchange.

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