The Frantz Fanon Lab for Intersectional Psychology
Welcome to the main page for the Frantz Fanon Lab for Intersectional Psychology at the New School for Social Research. Here you will find information about our current projects and how to collaborate with us in our scholarship and research.
Our lab takes its namesake from the revolutionary Martinican psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. As psychologists committed to study of race, class, and inequality and its impact on mental health, we recognize Fanon as an intellectual ancestor whose work on colonialism and racial identity laid the foundations for Multicultural, Critical, and Liberation Psychology.
Recognizing Fanon’s unique contributions to decolonial approaches to psychotherapy, we also pursue research on the impact of culture and identity in psychotherapy process and outcome. We are especially interested in how patients and therapists respond to and negotiate differences in identity, and repair ruptures due to such differences in the therapeutic relationship.
We complement Fanon’s thinking with perspectives drawn from intersectionality and queer of color critique, in particular the works of Kimberle Cremshaw, Roderick Ferguson, and the Combahee River Collective. This involves examining how inequality manifests itself across lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, citizenship status, age, and religion.
Below you will find a brief list of our working projects, and instructions should you wish to join. We look forward to hearing from you!
Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD, Director
Tyce F. Purvis, MA, Lab Manager