Current scholarly interests
Relationship between psychoanalysis and social and political theory
Genocide, war, collective trauma and historical memory from psychodynamic perspectives
Teaching to the unconscious
Intergenerational and collective trauma
Trauma and Ireland’s Great Hunger
Trauma and indigenous peoples: Consequences of Residential Schooling
Consequences of trauma for indigenous and other historically marginalized groups
Social and historical bases of schizophrenia and psychosis
Narratives of persons designated schizophrenic or psychotic
Therapeutic strategies for persons designated schizophrenic or psychotic
Issues in child psychotherapy
Inquiry into the formation of subjectivity, focusing particularly on psychoanalytic understandings of racial formation, and the sociopolitical and intrapsychic causes of racial hatred
Inquiry into the relationship between ideology, language, culture, and individual subject formation
Possibilities of schools as caring, reparative communities
Postcolonial theory
Bakhtinian theory
Critical media studies
Education and social justice
Preparation of teachers and psychologists for urban communities that are poor and ethnically diverse