Decoloniality and the clinic
Psychoanalysis for liberation
Asylum and refugee issues: Effects on children and families
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 Stolen Generations, Residential Schools etc.
Consequences of trauma for indigenous and other historically marginalized groups
Social and historical bases of psychiatric disorders
Life stories of persons designated with psychiatric disorders
Therapeutic strategies for persons with psychiatric disorders
Issues in child psychotherapy
The nature of child subjectivity
Child rights, and child and family refugee issues
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
Possibility of radical subjectivity and risks of totalitarianism
Possibilities of schools as caring, reparative communities
Postcolonial theory
Bakhtinian theory
Lacanian theory
Critical media studies
Education and social justice
Preparation of teachers and psychologists for urban communities that are poor and ethnically diverse