Toward a Social Psychoanalysis (PDF)

Lynne Layton , Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and part-time faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She supervises at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and teaches social psychoanalysis in the Department of Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco-Psychologies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is the author of Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory , and co-editor of Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self; Bringing the Plague. Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis; and Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting . From 2004-2018, she was co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. She is Past-President of Section IX of Division 39, Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility, and founder of Reflective Spaces/Material Places-Boston, a group of psychodynamic therapists committed to community mental health and social justice.

Marianna Leavy-Sperounis received her Psy.D. from The George Washington University, Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and B.A. from Oberlin College. She completed her predoctoral internship at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School and currently serves as a board member of Section IX (Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility) of Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. Prior to clinical training, she worked as a community organizer in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on the 2008 Obama campaign in Colorado; she also served as a political appointee to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.