Book Launch: From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures

• Speaker: Lara Sheehi 

• Date: Saturday, April 11, 2026

• Time: 11:00 AM ET

• Location: Virtual

• Source: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice

"The Book : From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures

The Author : Lara Sheehi 

The panel :  Foluke Taylor, Avgi Saketopoulou, Robert Downes – will each share a response to the book before opening up to a discussion with Lara to tease out the life making of the book as they engage with some of the central ideas that the text embodies and offers both to the clinic and the streets.  

Book overview:

“Psychoanalysis is having a resurgence in popularity—but it is not helping patients navigate the harm of modern-day capitalism. Instead, it continues to enforce oppressive structures, state power, and reactionary politics.

Practicing psychoanalytic clinician Lara Sheehi creates a thrilling argument for how seizing the means of psychoanalysis can transform it into one of many tools in service of revolution, showing how psychoanalysis can help unpack how psychological and emotional processes are mobilized by political power, capitalism, the state, oppression, and even genocide.

Arguing for a new, liberatory psychoanalysis, she calls for us to harness its radical power from the clinic to the streets”."