Patricia Gherovici

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a licensed psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor practicing in Philadelphia and New York. She is an award-winning author, who has published nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for psychoanalytic achievement, honoring her work with Latinx and gender non-conforming people. Most recently, she published a collection (with Chris Christian) Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Routledge: 2019) winner of Gradiva Award for best edited collection and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize. Her book The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press: 2003) won the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize of the American Anthropological Association. In Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge: 2010) and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference ​(Routledge: 2017) she uses case studies, surveys of transsexual memoirs, discussions of Freud, Lacan, feminist and queer studies authors, and the origins of sexology, to offer an original way to think about sexual identity and sexual difference while showing how the transgender experience is reorienting clinical practice. She has edited two volumes (with Manya Steinkoler) Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can't ( Routledge: 2015) and Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press: 2016). https://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/the-unconscious-is-the-last-activist https://www.patriciagherovici.com/