About me
Caleb Scott is a New York City based psychologist with extensive clinical experience working with individuals experiencing psychotic disorders and other severe psychiatric presentations. He works part time on a mobile crisis team responding to psychiatric emergencies across Brooklyn, and part time in the adult outpatient clinic at Woodhull Medical Center providing psychotherapy. Since beginning his career in clinical psychology, Scott has worked across multiple nodes of the institutional circuit — observing its structural traumas and working to disrupt their repetitions alongside co-workers and service users alike. His dissertation examined the history of the psychiatric establishment through the lens of political economy, drawing on past examples of patient and care-worker struggles to illuminate possible future directions for the field.
Scott is also involved in the rank and file labor movement and broader healthcare organizing in New York City, and writes and speaks at the intersections of psychology, political economy, and social theory. His current work brings together psychoanalytic and ecological frameworks to understand psychosis not as individual pathology but as a condition traversing mental, social, and environmental registers simultaneously — with particular attention to the ways capitalist social organization forecloses the conditions necessary for genuine care and the flourishing of human diversity.
