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Abby and Patrick discuss community psychoanalysis with Loren Dent, exploring its history and contemporary relevance.

Abby and Patrick welcome returning guest Loren Dent. As co-director of Brooklyn’s Greene Clinic, Loren is the ideal person to unpack the history, meaning, and contemporary landscape of community psychoanalysis. Drawing on Brazilian analyst Gabriel Tupenambá’s idea of the “institutional circuit,” Loren walks Abby and Patrick through a history extending from Freud’s hopes for a “psychoanalysis for the people” to the refugee analyst diasporas of WW2 to the interventions of Jacques Lacan to conte...

People in this episode

Hosts: Abby, Patrick

Guest: Loren Dent

Topics covered

• psychoanalysis
• community
• history
• refugee
• Lacan
• Freud

Keywords

• psychoanalysis
• community psychoanalysis
• Freud
• Lacan
• Gabriel Tupenambá
• refugee analysts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Greene Clinic

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