Nancy C Hollander

I am a Member and on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and Professor Emerita of History, California State University.  I am in private practice in Oakland, CA.
      My scholarly work, whether about the U.S, Latin America or Palestine, focuses on the interface among powerful social forces, hegemonic ideologies, and unconscious processes in the formation of subjectivities that identify with authoritarian cultures, movements, and regimes and those that resist. 
    As a decolonial psychoanalyst I am critical of how the profession's traditionally Eurocentric theories and clinical praxes  locate the etiology of our own and our patients'  symptoms and conflicts, pain and suffering, in the family rather than the larger social context in which hierarchically organized structures of power based on class, race, gender and sexuality produce the psychological predilection to dominate and be dominated.  The prevailing cultural matrix associated with the coloniality of power, encourages psychologies organized around individualism and competition rather than empathy and collaboration, dynamics that are being increasingly interrogated through a decolonial psychoanalytic lens.  .