Learning from Brisbane: Politics of Identity & the Promise of Empathy

Learning from Brisbane: Politics of Identity & the Promise of Empathy

Flora Lazar, PhD LCSW
Psychoanalysis, Self and Context
Volume 15, 2020 – Issue 2

Flora Lazar discusses what self psychology can learn from the field of literary criticism about addressing the experience of political and social otherness. Using the debates arising from the 2017 Brisbane Literary Festival, it explores how social, political, and cultural identities might affect our ability to understand the lives of those whose identities we do not share.

Race, Identity, and Psychotherapy: Insights from Dr. Stafford

Race, Identity, and Psychotherapy: Insights from Dr. Stafford

Anancia Stafford, EdD completed her masters and doctoral work at Governor’s State University, where she studied the relationship between race, identity and college attrition among African American male college students. She currently works with individuals and adults in the Loop and in Hyde Park, Chicago.

I recently sat down with Dr. Stafford to explore how race and identity can play into the therapeutic process.

Propaganda, Prostitution, & Penal Reform: How Psychoanalysis Lost Its Public Voice

Propaganda, Prostitution, & Penal Reform: How Psychoanalysis Lost Its Public Voice

Flora Lazar, PhD LCSW
The American Psychoanalyst
Volume 53, No 2, Spring/Summer 2019

Flora Lazar’s article considers the sociocultural frontier of psychoanalysis and its educational mission. It addresses the responsibilities and opportunities of psychoanalysis in the public domain and is informed by innovative archival research. The article offers a critique of the consequences of insularity in the consultation room.