ABOUT
The Center for Critical and Clinical Analysis is a new online project that explores how philosophical, political, and social thought can generate new approaches to clinical practice in psychoanalysis & psychodynamic psychotherapies. We are also interested in exploring how evolving academic production and pedagogy are playing a significant role in redefining psychoanalytic theory and influencing its contemporary practice. We aim to move beyond empty rhetoric & seek to promote critical & clinical analysis so that we may find our way together as a broader community of clinicians as we navigate the dialectic of theory & practice.
Currently, we organize workshops, provide group consultations, & share writings/essays. Our long-term goal is to create a community clinic, a space where the critical & clinical meet in praxis.
Contact: cccacommunity@gmail.com
Darragh Sheehan
is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, & adjunct lecturer at the Silberman School of Social Work (CUNY) in New York City. She has worked for over a decade in community mental health with a diversity of patients, but primarily (in New York state-funded Victim Assistance Programs) with migrants from Latin America.
She began her clinical education in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she trained in various somatic & psychodynamic modalities. Her primary post-graduate studies were in New York City, where she trained in a neo-Reichian somatically orientated psychodynamic psychotherapy, one of the earlier clinical attempts at integrating the political, the body, and subjectivity.
She hopes to share her thoughts & firsthand experiences from the frontlines of direct clinical social work practice, shedding light on the challenges & realities of the field to advocate for more substantive & effective approaches to merging socio-political perspectives with psychotherapy.
She currently practices in Brooklyn & East Harlem.
Carlos padrón
is a licensed psychoanalyst from the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in NYC. He has an MA In Philosophy from the New School & an MPhil in Latin American Literature from NYU. He has written & presented on the relations between philosophy and psychoanalysis, community psychoanalysis, & clinical issues related to difference. He has work published in Division Review; Psychoanalytic Psychology; Journal of Infant, Child, & Adolescent Psychotherapy; Room: A Sketchbook for Psychoanalytic Action; Stillpoint Magazine; Trópicos (Journal of the Psychoanalytic Society of Caracas); Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, & the Unconscious (Routledge), Psychoanalytic Dialogues; & an upcoming edited volume called Children in the Line of Fire (Routledge).
Carlos is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research and at the Silberman School of Social Work (CUNY). Carlos has worked psychoanalytically in different settings & is currently a clinical associate of the New School Psychotherapy Program, where he supervises PhD students in psychology.