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 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.

Marianna Leavy-Sperounis, PsyD, MCP (she/her/hers) is a clinical psychologist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to clinical training, she worked in community organizing, city planning, and federal policy. Her clinical work, research, and activism focuses on children, families, and young adults, with attention to the impacts of trauma, power and oppression, and movements for racial, economic, and social justice. Marianna received her Doctor of Psychology from The George Washington University, Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College. Within the American Psychological Association, she serves as a board member of Section IX of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology).

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

Robert Downes: Psychotherapist, supervisor, student and educator engaged in intersectional thought and critical theory to inform the therapeutic project.  

The book is available here ☞ Routeledge  and if you subscribe to Psychoanalytic Dialogues via IARPP you can access papers via the IARPP portal.