Robert Beshara
Robert K. Beshara is the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019), Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021), A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love (Cambridge Scholars, 2023), Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory: A Study of Youssef Chahine’s al-Masir (Bloomsbury, 2024), and Writings for a Liberation Psychoanalysis: Politicizing the Unconscious from the Core of a Crumbling Empire (Routledge, 2026). He is also the editor of A Critical Introduction to Psychology (Nova Science Publishers, 2019), Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality (Routledge, 2021), and Radical Humanism: Decolonizing Perspectives in Critical Psychology (Routledge, 2026). Additionally, he translated Mourad Wahba’s (1995) Fundamentalism and Secularization (Bloomsbury, 2022) and founded the Critical Psychology website: www.criticalpsychology.org. He serves as an Associate Professor of Psychology and Humanities at Northern New Mexico College and is a psychoanalyst-in-formation at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis.