Department of Psychology

Daniel Gaztambide, PhD

Basic Information

Title: Assistant Professor
Area: Clinical/Critical Psychology
PsyD: Rutgers University
Email: daniel.gaztambide@qc.cuny.edu
Office: Science Building A344
Office Phone: N/A
Lab: Science Building E305-307
Lab Phone: N/A
Website: The Frantz Fanon Lab for Decolonial Psychology

Professional Activities

Society Memberships
American Psychological Association (APA)
Division of Psychoanalytic Psychology (39, APA)
Division of Psychotherapy (29, APA)
Association for the Psychoanalytic of Culture & Society

Editorial Boards
Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Associate Editor. 2020-current.
Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society. Associate Editor. 2019-2021.

Research Interests

How does the social, political, and economic context impact psychology and health? How do forces like patriarchy, capitalism, and racism “trickle” down into the everyday experience and well-being of individuals and communities? At the political level, what kinds of policies, structures, and organizing strategies are necessary to create meaningful change? At the clinical level, how do all of these forces texture the psychotherapeutic dance between patient and therapist? And just as importantly, how do therapists intervene effectively within the clinical encounter, as well as organize politically outside of it?
The Frantz Fanon Lab for Decolonial Psychology seeks to answer these questions through 1) data-driven qualitative research developed conjointly with the community, and 2) scholarship synthetizing the available research to generate new ideas that have an impact on psychology and society as a whole.
Our current data-driven research include the Colonial Mentality Study-NYC, which examines how discourses around race, gender, class, and coloniality are internalized and resisted by Puerto Rican populations in New York City, alongside the Same-Gender Loving Black Men study—in collaboration with grassroots LGBTQ BIPOC organization DBGM—examining how Same-Gender Loving or Gay Black Men narrativize and make meaning of adversity and resilience post-COVID 19.
Our scholarship is currently reviewing the evidence-base for effective organizing interventions that support stronger multiracial labor unions and predict stronger support for LGBTQ, pro-immigrant, and racial justice causes. We are also engaging in a major literature review re-examining how we understand patriarchy within a racial capitalist framework, as informed by the works of decolonial theorists like Frantz Fanon and Sylvia Wynter.
As our team also includes clinical psychology students within CUNY and abroad, we also write scholarship on critical-decolonial approaches to psychotherapy, cultural humility, and different ways of thinking about development in psychoanalytic theory.
We are currently open to new members. Please email the Fanon Lab director, Dr. Gaztambide (email above).

Selected Publications

Books:

Gaztambide, D. J. (2019). A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology. Lexington Books.
Gaztambide, D. J. (in press, April 2024). Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon’s Couch. Palgrave McMillan.

Articles:

Gaztambide, D. J., Escobar, E.V.M., Hernandez-Vega, A., Purvis, T., Diaz, G., Julien, L., Chen, X. (in press). ¿Pa ‘rriba o pa ‘bajo? Upward mobility, anti-Blackness, and the Independence Question among Puerto Ricans in NYC: A Decolonial Psychoanalytic Study. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies.
Gaztambide, D. J., Ojionuka, P., Simon, S., Rename, J., Diaz, G., & Stell, J. (in press). Standing Against Racial Capitalism: Reconsidering Psychology’s Role in Dismantling Systemic Racism. American Psychologist.
Chen, X., Kelleher, J., Boiardo, A., Ealey, D. & Gaztambide, D. J. (in press). Anti-Black Skin, White Sheets: Challenging Sexual Colorblindness Through a Sexual Humility Framework. In D. Callander, P. Farvid, A. Baradaran, & T. Vance (eds). (Un)desiring Whiteness: (Un)doing Sexual Racism. Oxford University Press.
Gaztambide, D. J., Feliciano-Graniela, F. E., Luiggi-Hernández, J., & Escobar, E. V. M. (2024). Decolonizing psychoanalysis: Anti-Blackness, coloniality, and a new premise for psychoanalytic treatment. In L. E. Comas-Díaz, H. Y. Adames, & N. Y. Chavez-Dueñaz (eds) Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice. American Psychological Association.
Gaztambide, D. J. (2023). Rediscovering Freedom and Responsibility through a Decolonial Psychoanalytic Lens: Discussion of Friedman & Nakash’s “Repetition Compulsion and Sociopolitical Trauma.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 33(2), 214-225.
Gaztambide, D. J. (2022a). There is no such thing as Latinx: Race, intersectionality, and immigration in clinical work and supervision with Latin American communities. In H. Crisp & G. O. Gabbard (eds) Gabbard’s Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments 2nd Edition (553-575). American Psychiatric Association.
Gaztambide, D. J. (2022b). Entre Negros, Blancos y Judios: Revisiting Claudia Tate’s “Freud and His Negro” with Puerto Rican Eyes. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 1-17.
Gaztambide, D. J., Ealey, D., & Meraj, B. (2022c). Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training in a New Key: Adapting a Race-Class Lens for the Helping Professions. In Developing Anti-Racist Practices in the Helping Professions: Inclusive Theory, Pedagogy, and Application (pp. 391-419). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Gaztambide, D. J. (2022d). Love in a time of anti-Blackness: Social rank, attachment, and race in psychotherapy. Attachment & Human Development, 24(3), 353-365.
Gaztambide, D. (2021). Do Black Lives Matter in Psychoanalysis? Frantz Fanon as our most disputatious ancestor. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 38, 177-184.