The Exclusion of Psychoanalysis in Academic and Organized U.S. Psychology: On Voodooism, Witch-Hunts, and the Legion of Followers

Oksana Yakushko, Ph.D., received her doctoral education in Counseling Psychology and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Missouri. Her initial scholarly work focused on migration, human trafficking, gender, and xenophobia. Recently she has focused on connecting centrality of eugenics among leading American psychologists to propagation of xenophobic, racist, sexist, anti-psychotherapeutic, and anti-psychoanalytic patterns in U.S. psychology. Dr. Yakushko is an author of several books and numerous peer review articles. She is a professor of clinical psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute and has a private practice in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Yakushko is completing her training in psychoanalysis at the National Training in Psychoanalysis, New York. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and has received several awards for her work from several national psychological organizations.
CONTACT Oksana Yakushko, Ph.D. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 249 Lambert Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013.