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Racial discrimination in the United States, particularly as it impacts the lives of African Americans, continues to be the subject of heated popular and scholarly discussion and debate. In this special issue we showcase the ways in which clinicians and scholars creatively employ diverse forms of psychoanalytic theory and practice to illuminate racial injustice and inequality, and to heal and go beyond the trauma of racial injury. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander is interviewed by Annie Stopford, a contributing editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Professor Alexander's first book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness was published by the New Press in 2010 and was on The New York Times Best Seller List for ten consecutive months. Philosopher Cornel West has called The New Jim Crow the 'secular bible for a new social movement in early twenty-first-century America.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This field note describes two trips made by the author to Cambodia, the first in 1980 not long after the Khmer Rouge was driven from Phnom Penh, and the second in late 2009. The author describes encounters and conversations with Cambodian men and women in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge genocide, and her own subjective experience of the traumatic upheavals of the country. In this series of reflections on journeys to Cambodia, the author also discusses the process of truth and reconciliation and the limits of western therapeutic responses to collective violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties" edited by Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson and Richard Keller.