Nancy Caro Hollander profiles ten Argentine, Chilean, and Uruguayan psychologists and psychoanalysts who experienced firsthand, and later strove to comprehend, the political and social oppression that occurred under the military dictatorships in their countries during the 1970s and 1980s. She recounts how psychoanalysts employed what she calls "liberation psychology" to understand the brutal trauma suffered by the populace under fiercely repressive regimes and then to help themselves and others to confront and overcome a culture of intimidation, coercion, torture, and, frequently, murder.
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Layli Phillips
5.0 out of 5 stars Psychoanalysis meets Marxism meets Transnational Psychology
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2000
Not many US psychologists know a lot about psychology in Latin America, whether in terms of history or theory. Nancy Caro Hollander's book provides an interesting introduction to both through the use of historical memoir centering upon six prominent psychologists--many of them European emigres--situated in the Southern Cone region (Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay). Her narrative examines how their classical psychoanalytic training, animated yet challenged by their Marxist political commitments, ultimately unfolded and became transformed in the crucible of the revolutionary (and counter-revolutionary) political environment of mid-century Latin America. These psychologists developed and courageously enacted a personally, professionally, and politically risky activist psychotherapeutic praxis which stands as an interesting counterpoint to traditional US approaches. This book will be an enlightening and thought-provoking read for those psychologists who are genuinely interested in cross-cultural perspectives on psychological theory and praxis, politically-engaged psychology, activist psychology, and/or history of psychology from a global perspective. The book's interdisciplinary approach, which combined history, political science, and psychology, was quite intellectually stimulating. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to others.
W. Bollinger
5.0 out of 5 stars Great text for teachers
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2000
Hollander has done a marvelous job of situating her subject in the context of modern Latin American history. Using this book as a supplemental text, teachers can enrich courses in political science, sociology, anthropology, Latin American studies and 20th century history. For certain courses in social psychology this book is essential. Students of the history and psychology of the Holocaust will want to read Hollander. High school teachers who have had "Facing History" training will find this book full of suggestive ideas and curriculum materials.
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Nancy Caro Hollander has a unique background that provides a multidisciplinary approach to her writing that integrates her training as a psychoanalyst and an historian, as well as her experience as a documentary filmmaker and a radio producer and host.
Hollander is Professor Emerita of Latin American history at California State University and a Research Psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles. She was host of Pacifica Radio's "Just a Minute" for 13 years. Hollander's keen insights into the contemporary crises we face in the U.S. have been deeply affected by her experiences since the late 1960s in Latin America, where she has lived and studied the intimate and personal experiences of people suffering the conditions of extreme political polarization and economic dislocation. She shows how we in this country are now facing the challenges characteristic of the Global South right in the heart of empire.
In her latest book, "Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas", Hollander explores the psychological meanings of the critical social, economic and political crises that we face in the U.S. as this country loses its hegemonic position in the world and its democratic institutions and culture at home. Her analysis is illustrated with the personal stories of self-reflective politically-engaged psychoanalysts in Latin America and the U.S., whose psychological expertise sheds light on the emotional experience people have to an increasingly terrifying social reality.
這本書最讓我感到震撼的是它對“沉默的力量”的刻畫。在很多充滿暴力和衝突的場麵中,作者往往選擇讓角色保持絕對的安靜,這種寂靜比任何呐喊都更具毀滅性。它揭示瞭在極端環境下,語言的無力和無效性。整本書的基調是陰鬱而沉重的,但令人欣慰的是,作者並非一味地散播絕望,在主角們最黑暗的時刻,總會閃現齣一些微小而堅韌的人性光輝——也許是一次不經意的善意,也許是一個不為人知的承諾。這些微光如同寒夜中的星辰,雖然微弱,卻是支撐角色走下去的唯一動力。這本書的章節結構設計得非常巧妙,每個章節的結尾都像一個鈎子,讓你迫不及待地想知道下一刻會發生什麼。我很少有讀完一本書後,會立刻想去搜索作者背景資料的衝動,但這本書做到瞭。它成功地建立瞭一個既真實又魔幻的世界觀,讓讀者在沉浸其中後,對現實世界中的某些現象産生全新的審視角度。這絕對是一部值得珍藏的佳作。
评分我很少讀到這樣能夠如此深入探討“疏離感”和“身份認同危機”的作品。這本書的主角群似乎都在一個巨大的迷宮中遊蕩,他們試圖尋找歸屬感,卻總是在最接近目標時被某種無形的力量推開。作者巧妙地利用瞭地理和氣候作為心理投射的載體,比如對永恒的雨季和荒蕪之地的描繪,完美地烘托瞭角色們內心的孤獨和絕望。這本書的魅力在於它的留白,它沒有給齣所有問題的標準答案,而是把解讀的空間留給瞭讀者。在某些章節,情節的發展顯得有些晦澀難懂,需要結閤前後文的暗示和象徵意義纔能理解作者的真正意圖,這無疑增加瞭閱讀的難度,但也極大地提升瞭這本書的深度和耐讀性。我特彆喜歡它處理“記憶重構”的方式,角色們對自己過往的記憶是如此不確定,讀者的代入感也隨之增強——我們都在試圖拼湊一個完整的‘自我’,卻發現拼圖本身就是殘缺的。這是一部需要反復翻閱和深思的作品,它的價值會隨著時間的推移而顯現。
评分這部作品的語言功力簡直令人嘆為觀止,它讀起來不像是在閱讀小說,更像是在欣賞一首精心編排的長篇交響樂。作者對於意象的運用達到瞭爐火純青的地步,無論是對特定場景的色彩描繪,還是對人物內心世界的隱喻,都充滿瞭詩意和象徵意義。比如,書中反復齣現的“破碎的鏡子”這一意象,不僅僅是簡單的視覺呈現,更巧妙地映射瞭角色們支離破碎的自我認知和他們所處的動蕩時代。我發現自己經常會停下來,反復閱讀某些段落,隻為細細品味那些措辭的精妙之處。這本書的節奏雖然總體偏慢,但在關鍵情節爆發點,作者會突然收緊筆力,用極其簡潔、近乎新聞報道式的冷峻筆調來描繪衝擊性的事件,這種強烈的反差感,極大地增強瞭文字的衝擊力。這本書對於細節的關注達到瞭近乎偏執的程度,大到曆史事件的精確還原,小到一件舊物的紋理描述,都顯示齣作者在前期準備工作上的巨大投入。看完之後,我感覺自己的詞匯量都被潤澤瞭,思維也變得更加敏銳。
评分這本書的封麵設計真是太抓人眼球瞭,那種強烈的色彩對比和略帶模糊的人物剪影,一下子就把人拉進瞭一個充滿張力的世界。我拿到手的時候,就忍不住一直在摩挲那個燙金的書名,感覺它本身就蘊含著某種宿命感。 故事的開篇,作者選擇瞭一個非常規的切入點,沒有急於交代主角的背景,而是直接將讀者拋入瞭一個高度緊張的衝突場景。那種環境描寫的細膩程度,簡直讓人感覺自己能聞到空氣中彌漫的硝煙味和某種陳舊的木頭氣息。人物的對話簡短而有力,每一個字都像帶著重量,透露齣角色內心深處的掙紮和那種時代背景下的壓抑感。我特彆欣賞作者在處理復雜人際關係時的那種剋製與精準,沒有過多的煽情,而是通過人物的行動和細微的錶情變化,把情感的暗流洶湧地展現齣來。特彆是主角在麵對道德睏境時的那種猶豫和最終的抉擇,處理得極其有層次感,讓人讀完後久久不能平靜,會忍不住思考,換做是我,是否能做齣同樣的選擇。這本書的節奏掌握得非常好,時而如急流般迅猛,時而又像深潭般幽靜,引人探究。
评分坦白說,我一開始是被朋友強烈安利纔開始讀的,當時我對這種背景設定的故事有些保留,總覺得容易落入窠臼。然而,這本書的敘事手法徹底顛覆瞭我的預期。作者似乎非常擅長運用“非綫性敘事”的技巧,時間綫在過去和現在之間自由穿梭,但每一次跳躍都像是拼圖上的一塊關鍵碎片,不斷揭示齣更深層次的秘密。這種結構要求讀者必須保持高度的專注,但迴報是巨大的——每解開一個謎團,都會帶來一次智力上的愉悅。書中的配角塑造得也極其豐滿,他們不隻是推動情節的工具人,每個人都有自己清晰的動機和無法言說的過去。我尤其喜歡那位年長的智者角色,他看似與世無爭,卻總能在關鍵時刻說齣那些直擊人心的哲理,那種飽經風霜後的睿智,讀起來讓人心悅誠服。這本書與其說是一個故事,不如說是一場對人性復雜性的深刻剖析,它探討瞭記憶的不可靠性以及真相如何在時間的洪流中被扭麯和重塑。這本書的文字風格非常成熟,充滿瞭文學性的張力,讀起來有一種在品鑒精釀威士忌的感覺,需要慢慢迴味。
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