01: Fanon and Psychoanalysis (w/ Derek Hook)

In this episode of Little Hysterics, Austin sits down with psychoanalytic scholar and clinician Derek Hook to discuss his new book about Frantz Fanon, the difference between psychoanalysis and conventional psychotherapy, psychoanalysis’s relationship with political action, and the Derek's attempt at making difficult theory accessible.

Derek's book Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology is available here: https://www.routledge.com/Fanon-Psychoanalysis-and-Critical-Decolonial-Psychology-The-Mind-of-Apartheid/Hook/p/book/9781032308012

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Conversations on the contemporary relevance of psychoanalytic thought and practice, hosted by Austin McCann. Brought to you by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, a nonprofit institute devoted to the study, practice, and public life of psychoanalysis.

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