Dismantling Structural Constraints: Challenging the "Punishment Bureaucracy” and Facism in Psychoanalysis

About this episode

A conversation with Dr. Carter Carter and Alec Karakatsanis about challenging institutional constraints and building communities.

Join us for this stirring conversation with Dr. Carter Carter and Alec Karakatsanis. Our guests peel back the curtain and inspire with a paradigm-shifting conversation on how they wrest life from institutions and build communities for themselves and others. By exposing the limits to our imagination when we adhere to the counterintuitive logics of institutionalization, our guests challenge us to think beyond the status quo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr. Almas (Ally) Merchant, Dr. Billie Pivnick, Dr. Romy Reading

Guests: Dr. Carter Carter, Alec Karakatsanis

Topics covered

• structural constraints
• punishment bureaucracy
• facism in psychoanalysis
• community building
• institutionalization
• paradigm shift

Keywords

• structural constraints
• punishment bureaucracy
• facism
• psychoanalysis
• community
• institutionalization
• paradigm shift

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Organizations: Hangar Studios, Acast

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