Psychoanalysis Under Occupation emerged out of our engagement in psychoanalytic clinical and academic spaces as a clinician and cultural theorist who have always centered the Palestinian will to live and to resist settler-colonial violence and, what we..
Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi
Lara Sheehi (she/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University's Professional Psychology Program. She teaches decolonial, liberatory, and anti-oppressive theories and approaches to clinical treatment, case conceptualization, and community consultation. She is the president-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA Division 39), and the chair of the Teachers' Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and co-editor of CounterSpace in Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. Lara is on the advisory board to the USA–Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride. She is co-author, with Stephen Sheehi, of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022). Her current project is tentatively titled Toward an Anti-oppressive Psychoanalytic Praxis.
Stephen Sheehi (he/him) is currently the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities at the Newhouse Center for Humanities at Wellesley College. He is also the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies in the Asian and Middle East Studies Program at William & Mary, where he is the founding Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project. Prof. Sheehi is the author of another of books. Most recently, he is co-author with Lara Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) and with S. Tamari and I. Nassar of Camera Palaestina: Photography and the Displaced Histories of Palestine (University of California Press, 2022).