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This talk will discuss major themes of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022), including how Palestinian clinicians engage in political refusals in service of ethically alignment treatment with their Palestinian patients under settler colonial conditions. The authors will use case examples from the book to help animate the necessary clinical and political commitments of clinicians and academics toward Palestinian liberation.

Lara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. She is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is on the advisory board for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. Lara is currently working on a new book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto, 2025).

Stephen Sheehi (he/him) is Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies at William & Mary and the Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project. Sheehi is the author of five books, the most recent of which are Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine with co-authored with Lara Sheehi (Routledge, 2022); and Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories (University of California Press, 2022). Most recently he has co-edited with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian a special issue of the State Crime Journal, on “Abolition and Settler Colonialism."