Shoshana Lauter

Shoshana completed her doctorate with the Department of Health Policy (Care Policy and Evaluation Centre; NIHR Studentship) in 2024.

Her ethnography – Reconsidering Our Turn Towards Trauma: A Psychosocial Study of Mental Illness, Social Suffering and Service User Subjectivity – employed psychosocial methodologies to critically reexamine the trauma concept and its use in care practices for those with serious mental illness.

Shoshana received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (Sociology; 2018) and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge (Sociology; 2019). She is currently training in adult psychotherapy, with NHS clinical placements at Tavistock and Portman’s Trauma Service and East London’s Specialist Psychotherapy Service. Shoshana works for LSE’s Global Health Initiative and Camden Psychotherapy Unit.

Expertise

Critical mental health studies; ethnography; psychosocial methods; psychoanalytic theory; psychosis; trauma