Hannah Zeavin

Oakland

historian of mind & media @ucbhistory I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy https://t.co/RzP7CTLwu6 I Founder of @parapraxis_mag & @PsychosocialFo1

Articles

Struggle Unity Struggle | Hannah Zeavin

1 month ago | nplusonemag.com | Hannah Zeavin

Come hear a talkback to a PowerPoint of a cassette tape of an essay by Bob Avakian! Would you like to attend a screening of a Betamax of a Super 8 of a lecture by Bob Avakian? Maybe you’ve seen the volunteers in their black T-shirts, handing out Revolution newspaper outside left conferences and protests. Or perhaps you’ve seen the posters, the sandwich boards, the flyers with their gummed-up tape.
John Ashbery’s Analyst

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Hannah Zeavin

By Hannah Zeavin May 12, 2025 John Ashbery was analyzed by Carlos Carrillo. Jane Freilicher was analyzed by Edmund Bergler. Bernadette Mayer was in analysis with David Rubinfine. Kenneth Koch was analyzed by Rudolph Loewenstein. James Schuyler was hospitalized at Payne Whitney and Bloomingdale, where the day got slowly started. John Wieners was sent to Medfield and then sent us Asylum Poems. Was Barbara Guest analyzed?
Nanny As Nuisance: How Caregivers Disrupt the Fiction of the Nuclear Family

2 months ago | lithub.com | Hannah Zeavin

Paid, one-to-one caregiving for children is far from the major story at any point in US history, especially for working mothers. In the nineteenth century (and to our present) there were a staggering number of arrangements for care that allowed mothers to work and have children simultaneously.
Too Communist, Too Freudian — Parapraxis

Mar 3, 2025 | parapraxismagazine.com | Hannah Zeavin

In exile under a fake name in Denmark, Reich eventually made it to Norway. There, he advanced his nascent theories of character analysis both in the clinic and the laboratory. Reich moved the emphasis from talking to the body, which he, following Freud, also understood to not just be speaking but defending us from feeling.
How the Palestine Exception Made One Professor Lie Down

Jan 24, 2025 | truthdig.com | Hannah Zeavin

On the evening of January 11, 2023, Lara Sheehi came home, greeted her dog, and sat down to resume the constant task of an always-on academic: her university email. Tucked between the messages from colleagues and students and committees needing her attention was a request from the Washington Free Beacon, a far-right online newspaper. A reporter was reaching out for comment on a story the Beacon was doing on her.
Parallel Processes | Hannah Zeavin

Dec 16, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Hannah Zeavin

On the evening of January 11, 2023, Lara Sheehi came home, greeted her dog, and sat down to resume the constant task of an always-on academic: her university email. Tucked between the messages from colleagues and students and committees needing her attention was a request from the Washington Free Beacon, a far-right online newspaper. A reporter was reaching out for comment on a story the Beacon was doing on her.
Secure States - Parapraxis

Nov 3, 2024 | parapraxismagazine.com | Hannah Zeavin

In 1947, diplomat George F. Kennan formulated the strategy by which the United States would attempt to fight communism and control its spread. The plan was simple.
キアヌ・リーヴスとの共著で復活、SF作家チャイナ・ミエヴィルが描いた「死の欲動」

Jul 28, 2024 | wired.jp | Hannah Zeavin

この間の金曜の午後、わたしはあの「ネット上のボーイフレンド」とのインタビューに臨んでいた。彼の名はキアヌ・リーヴス［編註：キアヌ・リーヴスはその「いい人キャラ」がネット上でバズることから、英語圏では「Internet Boyfriend（ネット上のボーイフレンド）」や「Internet Crush (ネット上の恋愛相手）」などと呼ばれている］。妙な紹介の仕方だと思われるかもしれないが、今回ばかりは、彼は単なる脇役にすぎない。リーヴスがわたしのインタビューに快く応じてくれたことには驚いたし（さすがは恋人キャラといったところだ）、その内容を考えるとますます信じられない。なんとリーヴスは、今回の話の主人公である作家のチャイナ・ミエヴィルとコラボレーションを行なったのだ。ふたりは『The Book of Elsewhere』という本を共著で書き上げており、この夏の出版が決まっている［7月23日出版］。物語の舞台は、リーヴスによる12巻物のコミック『BRZRKR』の世界だ（キアヌ・リーヴスがコミック作家になっていたのも驚きだろう）。...
Bad Moods - Parapraxis

Jun 30, 2024 | parapraxismagazine.com | Hannah Zeavin

A cluster of forces made it so that the American understandings of mental illness transformed in this decade—not only within scientific research, but also in how that research was then represented to and received by the public. The central and intricate debate on the possible role of neurotransmitters (and serotonin) was reductively fed to the public as a matter of a “chemical imbalance,” merely a closed loop: depressed patients should take SSRIs because they had low serotonin.
The Woman Behind Freud’s First Case Study

Jun 28, 2024 | yahoo.com | Hannah Zeavin

There is perhaps no one more devoted to the cause than a convert, and there is no one more violent toward it than a person who has lost their faith. The faithful turned faithless take up the act of crusade, but in reverse: new atheists confronting the world with secular eyes, children who learn that their parents aren’t omnipotent. They have suffered the loss of an organizing principle, the very thing they built their life around.