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Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis Hysteria, Narcissism, and the Repression of Psychoanalysis

By Robert Samuels Copyright 2025
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice offers a solution to the large increase in students seeking mental health services. Robert Samuels returns to the roots of psychoanalysis, drawing from Freud’s and Lacan’s conceptions of hysteria and narcissism. This book examines the idea that the repression of psychoanalysis has resulted in... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Misdiagnosing Students  3. The Past and Present of Trauma-Informed Teaching  4. Coddling Trauma: The Center-Right Turns to CBT  5. CBT as the False Answer to the Student Mental Health Crisis  6. Bad Therapy, Trauma, and Anti-Psychoanalytic Psychoanalysis  7. The University as a False Family  8. Fixing the College Mental Health Crisis

Biography

Robert Samuels holds doctorates in psychoanalysis and English and teaches advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of 25 books, including Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession: Prestige TV and the Contradictions of the “Liberal” Class and Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University (both Routledge).