Dear all,

The Shatāt-USA Palestine Mental Health Network is pleased to announce our kick off event as the newest affiliate of the International Collective of the Palestine Mental Health Networks.

Shatāt was founded in 2026 by a collective of Palestinians living in the Shatāt, or diaspora, and mental health practitioners dedicated to the liberation of Palestine. 

We are extremely excited to invite you to Dardasheh with Lara Sheehi, where we will discuss her new book, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures. 

This will be the first of many Dardāsheh’s – Arabic for chitchat – where we will come together as mental health workers and organizers committed to Palestinian liberation to form critical connections, exchange knowledge and build community. 

This free, live event will be held on Monday June 8th at 1:00PM EDT (NYC time), 8:00PM EEST (Palestine time).

Please register using the Zoom link below, and share with friends and colleagues who may be interested!

Zoom registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2W5vHxJ9QxqLWAwicmhPKA

Recordings of the event will be made available on the Shallāl Substack account.

Guest bio: 

Lara Sheehi is a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute for Social and Health Sciences, a licensed clinical psychologist, and the host of the Psychic Militancy podcast. Lara’s work focuses on psychoanalysis, the psychic refusals central to liberation struggles and life-making in the Global South, the psychic dimensions of resistance and revolution, and critical Zionism studies. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is a member of the founding collective for the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and is on the advisory board for Forensic Architecture. Her new book, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures will be released by Pluto Press in May 2026.