Hannah Proctor. Photo credit: Matthew Arthur Williams Hannah Proctor
Hannah Proctor is a historian of Human Sciences interested in intersections between left-wing politics and the psy’ disciplines, Communist and anti-Communist theories of the mind, histories and theories of radical psychiatry, theories and practices of Freudo-Marxism, and emotional histories of the left.
She is the author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024), which explores the psychological toll of political struggle in historical perspective, asking how activists have made sense of or worked through the emotional impacts of their political experiences, whether collectively or in isolation.
Proctor holds a Wellcome Trust University Award at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and a contributing editor at Parapraxis Mag.