Review of Psychoanalysis under occupation: Practicing resistance in Palestine.

Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 41(1), Jan 2024, 60-64; doi:10.1037/pap0000497Reviews the book, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine by Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi (see record 2022-06526-000). A liberatory psychoanalysis, such as that employed in Psychoanalysis Under Occupation, has much to contribute to this decolonial project. Lara and Stephen Sheehi do so within the specific context of the historical development of psychoanalysis in Palestine before and since the birth of Israel. Psychoanalysis Under Occupation challenges readers who identify with Israel as the Jewish people’s homeland to critically assess whether a nation whose citizenship is based on ethnicity can manage to be a democracy as well. For those readers who believe in the Palestinian peoples’ right to share the land and its resources equally with Israelis, the book offers an opportunity to learn about the complexity of Palestinian culture, politics, and the Palestinian people’s psychosocial experience of coloniality. For all of us, the book provides an exemplary model of the contributions of the decolonial turn within contemporary psychoanalysis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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