ABOUT
The Center for Critical and Clinical Analysis is a new project that explores how an understanding of power relations and societal dynamics can generate new approaches to clinical practice in psychoanalysis & psychodynamic psychotherapies. We aim to move beyond empty rhetoric & seek to promote critical & clinical analysis so that we may find our way together as a broader community of clinicians as we navigate the dialectic of theory & practice.
Currently, we organize workshops, provide group consultations, and share our writings & those of colleagues. Our long-term goal is to create a community clinic, a space where the critical & clinical meet in praxis.
Contact: cccacommunity@gmail.com
Who we are
Darragh Sheehan
is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and adjunct lecturer at the Silberman School of Social Work (CUNY) in New York City. She has worked for over a decade in community mental health with a diversity of patients.
She began her clinical education in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she trained in various somatic & psychodynamic modalities. Her primary post-graduate studies were in New York City, where she trained in a neo-Reichian somatically orientated psychodynamic psychotherapy, one of the earlier clinical attempts at integrating the political, the body, and subjectivity.
She hopes to share her thoughts and firsthand experiences from the frontlines of direct clinical social work practice, shedding light on the challenges and realities of the field. Through her insights, she aims to advocate for more substantive and effective approaches to merging socio-political perspectives with psychotherapy.
Carlos Padrón
is a licensed psychoanalyst from the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in NYC. He has an MA In Philosophy from the New School and an MPhil In Latin American Literature from NYU. He has written and presented on the relations between philosophy, and psychoanalysis, on community psychoanalysis, and on clinical issues related to difference. He has work published in Division Review; Psychoanalytic Psychology; Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy; Room: A Sketchbook for Psychoanalytic Action; Stillpoint Magazine; Trópicos (Journal of the Psychoanalytic Society of Caracas); Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Routledge), Psychoanalytic Dialogues; and an upcoming edited volume called Children in the Line of Fire (Routledge).
Carlos is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and at the Silberman School of Social Work (CUNY). Carlos has worked psychoanalytically in different settings and is currently a clinical associate of the New School Psychotherapy Program where he supervises PhD students in psychology.