The Puerto Rican Syndrome
$44.16
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2027
Summary
A revised edition of the award-winning historical account that offers timely insights into psychoanalysis and Hispanic experiences in America.
During the 1950s, U.S. Army medical officers noted a puzzling new syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure: Puerto Rican soldiers under stress exhibited a dramatic form of pseudo-epilepsy, foaming at the mouth, screaming, biting, kicking, shaking in seizures, and fainting. The phenomenon seemed to correspond to a ser…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635426373 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635426375 |
| Author: | Patricia Gherovici |
| Publisher: | Other Press LLC |
| Imprint: | Other Press LLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 228mm |
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Critics Review
“A short circuit occurs when two currents to be kept apart meet, thus producing an explosive disturbance of the system. Gherovici’s book is such a short circuit, bringing together Lacanian psychoanalysis at the highest conceptual level and the concrete experience of social work among Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia. The result is breathtaking: the proof that top theory and engaged social experience need each other.” —Slavoj Žižek, author of The Sublime Object of Ideology
“Gherovici effortlessly breaks down Freudian and Lacanian concepts and grounds them in real-world scenes, vivid anecdotes, case histories. This is a fantastic resource for those interested in, or engaged with, Puerto Rican history and forms of resistance, but also for those interested in colonial resistance more broadly … And for those interested in what psychoanalysis can teach us about geopolitics and the social world. And for those interested in the mind. Which is all to say, this book, in all its specificity, is truly a book for everyone.” —From the foreword by Justin Torres, author of Blackouts and We the Animals
Patricia Gherovici
Patricia Gherovici is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor in private practice in Philadelphia. She is a recipient of the Sigourney Award and a three-time winner of the Gradiva Award. She has also received the Boyer Prize and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize.
Gherovici is the author or editor of numerous books, including:
- Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference
- Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans
She is an Honorary Member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), a Founding Member of Das Unbehagen, and cofounder and trustee of Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics, New York.
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