Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor in private practice in Philadelphia, USA. The author or editor of six books, she received the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize for her book The Puerto Rican Syndrome. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania, Honorary Member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), and Founding Member of Das Unbehagen, New York.

Christopher Christian, Ph.D. is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Psychology; Dean of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR); co-editor with Morris Eagle and David Wolitzky of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict; and with Michael J. Diamond of The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action. He is the Executive Producer of the documentary Psychoanalysis in El Barrio, winner of the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) Video Grant award. He has a psychoanalytic private practice in Manhattan, New York City, USA.

Introduction Patricia Gherovici Section I: Freud with a Spanish Accent: The Latin American Experience of the Psychic Being Political Chapter 1. Freud and the Latin Americans: A Forgotten Relationship Mariano Plotkin Chapter 2: Psychoanalysts Bearing Witness: Trauma and Memory in Latin America Nancy Hollander Chapter 3: Dying to Get Out: Challenges in the Treatment of Latin American Migrants Fleeing Violent Communities Ricardo Ainslie, Hannah McDermott, Crystal Guevara Section II. Pathology of Otherness: Diagnosis in the Barrio Chapter 4: The Analyst as Interpreter: Ataque de Nervios, Puerto Rican Syndrome, and The Inexact Interpretation Christopher Christian Chapter 5: The Anxiety of Citizenship or the Psychotic as Citizen Alfredo Carrasquillo Chapter 6: Eating Brains: Latinx Barrios, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience Antonio Viego Section III. The Latino Queer Body: Mourning, Melancholía, and the Law Chapter 7: Visible Pleasure and Sex Policing: State, Science, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Cuba Jennifer Lambe Chapter 8: Melancholia and the Abject on Mango Street: Racialized Narratives /Psychoanalysis Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui Chapter 9: Chencha's Gait: Voice and Nothing in Myrta Silva Licia Fiol Matta Chapter 10: Beside Oneself: Queer Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetics of LatinidadJoshua Javier Guzmán Section IV. The Clinical is Political Chapter 11: The Political Potentiality of the Psychoanalytic Process Carlos Padrón Chapter 12: Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio: Integrating Race and Class into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Daniel Gaztambide Chapter 13: Psychoanalysis of Poverty, Poverty of Psychoanalysis Patricia Gherovici