Image of Lara Sheehi wearing a kufiya and a black jacket, she is smiling and standing in a field of yellow flowers.
Illustrations of pomegranate in red acrylic flank Lara Sheehi’s picture.

Lara Sheehi/لارا شيحا

Illustrations of pomegranate in red acrylic flank Lara Sheehi’s picture.

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.

Illustration detail of an olive branch. Green pen, interrupted by droplets of rain, adorn Lara Sheehi’s picture.
Illustration detail of an olive branch. Green pen, interrupted by droplets of rain, adorn Lara Sheehi’s picture.