Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological
distress and inequality across race class gender and sexuality. How does one address this
organically in psychotherapy? What role does it play in therapeutic action? Who brings it up
the therapist or the patient? Daniel José Gaztambide addresses these questions by offering a
rigorous decolonial approach that rethinks theory and technique from the ground up providing
an accessible evidence-informed reintroduction to psychoanalytic practice. He re-examines
foundational thinkers from three traditions-Freudian relational-interpersonal and
Lacanian-through the lens of revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon and offers a detailed
analysis of Fanon's psychoanalytic practice. Drawing on rich yet grounded discussions of theory
and research Gaztambide presents a clinical model that facilitates exploration of the social
in the clinical space in a manner intimately related to the patient's presenting problem. In
doing so this book demonstrates that clinicians no longer have to choose between attending to
the personal interpersonal or sociopolitical. It is a guide to therapeutic action on the
couch which envisions political action off the couch and in the streets. Decolonizing
Psychoanalytic Technique provides a comprehensive practice-oriented and compelling guide for
students practitioners and scholars of critical multicultural and decolonial approaches to
psychotherapy.
