Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities.
She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania (PSYS), Honorary Member at IPTAR the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City, and Founding Member of Das Unbehagen, co-founder and trustee Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics, New York and teaches in the Philosophy Department at the New School for Social Research, New York.
Her single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Winner of the Gradiva® Award and the Boyer Prize; Other Press: 2003.) Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge: 2010) and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference (Routledge: 2017).
She published with Chris Christian Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Winner of the Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Collection and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize; Routledge: 2019.) She edited with Manya Steinkoler Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can't ( Routledge: 2015), Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press: 2016), and most recently, Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Winner of the Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Collection; Routledge: 2023), and the Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Gender (Routledge, forthcoming in 2026.)
