Introduction: Necrocapitalism and psychic violence

Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University Professional Psychology Program. She is the Secretary and President-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP) and is the chair of the Teachers’ Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Lara is co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality; co-editor of “Counterspace” in the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022). Lara's work takes up decolonial struggles, global solidarity movements with a focus on the global south, and anti-oppressive clinical theory and praxis.