The People's History of Psychoanalysis

In his book, analyst, teacher, and editorial member of the journal Chimères Floran Gabarron-Garcia refutes the political neutrality of psychoanalysis. According to the author, it has always been an essential part of public culture and cannot be conceived outside the context of world history. Gabarron-Garcia sheds light on the repressed and almost forgotten aspects of psychoanalysis that contradict the logic of capitalism, which it, like many other disciplines, follows in our days. Discussing the activities of Wilhelm Reich, Vera Schmidt, Marie Langer, Félix Guattari, and others, Gabarron-Garcia focuses on the revolutionary component of psychoanalysis and demonstrates how this discipline has served as a weapon in the struggle for emancipation.

The author's goal is to tell the reader the "people's" history of psychoanalysis: the history of resistance against the practices of punitive psychiatry, dictatorships, the "master" position of the analyst, and the striving to improve the lives of ordinary people.