Description: Carolyn Laubender examines cases from Britain and its former colonies to show that clinical psychoanalytic practice constitutes a productive site for novel political thought, theorization, and action.
Review Quotes: Laubender's fiercely argued book rewrites everything we knew about the politicality of the psychoanalytic clinic. Seething with ironies and illuminations--there is no clinical gesture (defenses, reparation, secure attachment) that is not embedded in its Cold War and decolonial histories, its geopolitical imaginaries. It's where psychoanalysis must struggle to go.--Matt ffytche, coeditor of Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism