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Daniel Jose Gaztambide is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research. He has written numerous articles and book chapters on cultural competency, social justice and psychodynamic practice, as well as race and class in the treatment of borderline personality disorder. He is currently a candidate at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is also a member of the Puerto Rican poetry troupe, The Titere Poets. He was featured in the documentary Psychoanalysis in el Barrio .
Dr. Gaztambide's timely, fascinating, scholarly, and highly readable book revives an aspect of the history of psychoanalysis that is often forgotten: its involvement in the fight for social justice. The author has unearthed the works of several early psychoanalysts and analytically informed clinicians whose ideas were instrumental in the formation of psychoanalytic theory and practice, but who are not frequently discussed in our field. In addition, Gaztambide introduces clinicians and scholars from multi-cultural backgrounds who discovered and studied psychoanalysis on their own, because they found psychoanalytic ideas relevant to explaining situations of social, racial and economic injustice and the psychic effects on oppressed, marginalized, and colonized peoples. Many of these clinicians are likely unfamiliar to the majority of analysts. Gaztambide writes in his introduction: “A People's History of Psychoanalysis emerges from a particular philosophical and social vantage point [...],