Main description:

Updated edition of this key social psychoanalytic book * Brings the book up to date with the latest US political and social changes * Sets the standard for psychoanalytic thinking in a social setting

Contents:

Foreword by Daniel Jose Gaztambide Nunez Introduction 1. Scared Stiff: Social Trauma and the Post-9/11 Political Culture 2. Political Culture and Psychoanalysis in the Southern Cone: Coming Attractions of the Dirty Wars 3. A Psychoanalysis for Tumultuous Times: The Psyche and Social Revolution 4. The Psychosocial Dynamics of State Terror 5. The Culture of Fear and Social Trauma 6. Exile: Paradoxes of Loss and Creativity 7. Neoliberal Democracy in Latin America: Impunity and Economic Meltdown 8. U.S. Neoliberal / Neoconservative Democracy: Psychoanalysis Without the Couch 9. Impunity and Resistance: Saving Democracy in the Heart of Empire 10. The Future's Uprooted Minds Epilogue: Decolonizing Society and Psychoanalysis