A People's History of Psychoanalysis

Florent Gabarron-Garcia is a psychoanalyst, psychologist and doctor in psychopathology. He lectures at University Paris 8. After teaching philosophy in high school, he trained in institutional analysis at the La Borde clinic, later working in the psychiatric hospital and in the CMPP. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Chimeres, founded by Deleuze and Guattari. He currently lives in France.

Shuli Branson is an anarchist writer, translator, editor, and teacher, currently living on unceded Lenape land (so-called New York). She is the author of Practical Anarchism, also published by Pluto Books. Shuli translated The Abolition of Prison by Jacques Lesage de la Haye, and edited Surviving the Future: Queer Abolitionist Strategies. She hosts the podcast, The Breakup Theory, conversations on ending things and collective liberation, and is a member of the worker-writer collective CAW Journal.


Shuli Branson is a writer, translator, editor and teacher living in occupied Lenape land in so-called New York. In addition to organizing for a better world today, she tries to make generative cultural and philosophical interventions to our current conditions.


Her previous book Practical Anarchism served as an accessible introduction to real-life actions people can take to reorient their lives towards collective freedom. You can find Shuli on their podcast the Breakup Theory and as a worker-member of the CAW Journal collective.