Roger Frie is Professor of Education, Simon Fraser University, Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Faculty and Supervisor, William Alanson White Institute, New York. He is an award-winning author and has published many books on human interaction, historical responsibility and cultural memory.

Pascal Sauvayre is faculty, supervising and training psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute, New York. He studies and writes at the disciplinary boundaries of psychoanalysis, and he has a private practice in New York City.

The Sociocultural Turn: An Introduction 1. The Roots of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Harry S. Sullivan, Interdisciplinary Inquiry, and Subjectivity 2. Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: A Lost Dialogue Over Time 3. More Simply Human Than Otherwise: Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Field of the "Negro Problem" 4. The Philosophical Grounding of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Alfred Dunham Jr. and Racial Politics 5. Reproduction and Resistance: Psychoanalysis in the Midst of the Political Economy 6. Do Less Harm: Notes on Clinical Practice in the Age of Criminal Justice Reform 7. Immigrants in Our Own Country: Responsibility Towards the Past and Future of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis 8. Considering the Radical Contributions of Clara Mabel Thompson 9. Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of Fascisim and Genocide: Erich Fromm and the Interpersonal Tradition

Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis traces the emergence of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and demonstrates how the radical, cross-disciplinary dialogues that form its foundation are relevant to present-day social and cultural challenges.
Psychoanalysts today are grappling with how to address a host of societal and political crises. In the 1930s, a similar set of crises led a group of progressive practitioners and scholars to engage in a radical, cross-disciplinary dialogue that became the foundation for Interpersonal Psychoanalysis. Pioneering psychoanalysts created a form of thought and practice that viewed human suffering through the wider lens of society and culture and provided a means to address the pervasive issues of racism, sexuality and politics in human experience. With contributions from leading psychoanalysts and scholars, and by making use of original sources, this book evidences the significance of this approach to understanding marginalisation today.
Written in an open and accessible fashion, Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis demonstrates the importance of the early interpersonal-cultural school for the present moment. The book will appeal to a broad audience in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the history of medicine, and social and cultural theory.