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Marie Langer, Nancy Caro Hollander

The Guilford Press, 1992

Empathy, respect, and a lot of heart for the female experience
I first read this book during my college years (in the late 70's) I own it since and loved it ever since, to this day. It has been my companion and informed me in my early realitionships, pregnancy, motherhood, and parenting of a girl child. I resonate with every bit of it and appreciate the empathy and soulfulness of the treatment. I have to say that I'm familiar with and appreciate both the ...

Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting

Routledge, 2006

Do political concerns belong in psychodynamic treatment? How do class and politics shape the unconscious? The effects of an increasingly polarized, insecure and threatening world mean that the ideologically enforced split between the political order and personal life is becoming difficult to sustain. This book explores the impact of the social and political domains at the individual level. The contributions included in this volume describe ...

Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America

3 reviews
Nancy Caro Hollander

Rutgers University Press, 1997

Psychoanalysis meets Marxism meets Transnational Psychology
Not many US psychologists know a lot about psychology in Latin America, whether in terms of history or theory. Nancy Caro Hollander's book provides an interesting introduction to both through the use of historical memoir centering upon six prominent psychologists--many of them European emigres--situated in the Southern Cone region (Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay). Her narrative examines how ...