trauma, pedagogy, and the college mental health crisis: hysteria, narcissism, and the repression of psychoanalysis

Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice offers a solution to the large increase in students seeking mental health services.

Robert Samuels holds doctorates in psychoanalysis and English and teaches advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of twenty-five books, including Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession: Prestige TV and the Contradictions of the ＂Liberal＂ Class and Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University (both Routledge).