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Eqequiel Peña, Ph.D.
University of Texas

Ezequiel Peña received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at the Sunset Park Mental Health Center, an inner-city clinic in Brooklyn, NY that serves Latin American Immigrant and Latino groups. Dr. Peña's theoretical interests are situated at the intersections of culture, philosophy and psychology, drawing largely on cultural studies and the work of French psychoanalysts Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva. His primary research interests include understanding the relationship between the interior and social lives of U.S. ethnic minority subjects, with a particular emphasis on Mexican American (Chicano) political subjectivity. Within theses parameters, his research investigates the intersections of ethnicity, class, gender and sexual orientation. Exploring the politics and history of the multicultural psychology movement and of the medicalization of problems of living are also among Dr. Peña's scholarly pursuits. His applied research interests include developing local clinically-oriented research projects that address the needs of underrepresented groups.

Dr. Peña can be reached by e-mail at penae@duq.edu

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