Book contents
- Unseen City
- Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Unseen City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “The Poverty of Philosophy” – A Critique of Psychoanalytic Knowledge and Power
- Part I London
- Part II Mumbai
- Part III New York
- Chapter 5 Open, Closed, and Interrupted City
- Chapter 6 Psychoanalysis of the Unhomed: Free Clinics, New York
- Afterword: Second Sight
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 6 - Psychoanalysis of the Unhomed: Free Clinics, New York
from Part III - New York
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2021
Book contents
- Unseen City
- Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Unseen City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “The Poverty of Philosophy” – A Critique of Psychoanalytic Knowledge and Power
- Part I London
- Part II Mumbai
- Part III New York
- Chapter 5 Open, Closed, and Interrupted City
- Chapter 6 Psychoanalysis of the Unhomed: Free Clinics, New York
- Afterword: Second Sight
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter begins with vigilante activists who have strained to introduce therapeutic dimensions to traditional psychiatric treatment. The case studies include torture victims at Bellevue Hospital, who have sought asylum in the US after enduring political atrocities in their homeland; homeless persons being sheltered and made capable of securing independent housing; and children in a therapeutic nursery whose abuse at the hands of their carers points to the depredations of slavery and racism.
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- Unseen CityThe Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, pp. 187 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021