Crossing the TSA: Field notes on St. Louis, MO – Boston, MA Trips

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In Crossing the TSA, Field notes on St. Louis, MO – Boston, MA Trips, the author analyzes her own recurrent experience of passing TSA security checkpoints. Airport security checkpoints mark a central axis that regulates language, behavior, and social status within travelers’ microcosms. There are three stations to crossing any given checkpoint. The exploration of those three steps reveals a subjective disassembling line. At the TSA, passengers are mandated to lay down their carry-ons and garments for inspection, raise their arms up and submit their bodies to an intrusive scrutiny. By regulating the body, the ego is also regulated. The TSA appears as a series of stages in a subjective disassembling line that transforms the original citizen traveler into an output called passenger. The TSA provides an institutionalized sense of safety.

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Sandy M
October 16, 2020
This is such an interesting book. Every time I travel by air, crossing the TSA leaves me exhausted and a bit confused. I thought it was due to the stress of handling my carry on, toiletry, etc. Dr. Roth depicts what is really happen at the psychological level. It is very short book, but totally worth reading it if you like to travel.
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Dr. Roth studied business at the Bank of Boston Foundation and psychology at the University of Buenos Aires. Later, she moved to the United States to obtain a Master’s degree in Social Work from Washington University in St Louis and a Doctoral degree from Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. In July 2016, she was awarded an International Psychoanalytic Association RTP- Research Fellow. 

Dr. L. Roth started working as a licensed clinical psychologist in Argentina. By now, she has over fifteen years of experience working as a psychotherapist. She has been trained in hospital settings both in Argentina and at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. She assisted survivors of 9/11 and worked in different agencies before opening her private practice in 2010. Currently, most of her practice focuses on psychological evaluations in her forensic capacity.

In addition, Dr. Roth has teaching, researching and writing experience. She’s taught Physiology of Mental Conditions at University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine (2003-2004). Since 1994, she’s published articles in newspapers and magazines. She has done this, both, in the United States and abroad. In Missouri, Dr. Roth had her own column in the newspapers El Mundo Latino, El Sol de St. Louis and Community News. She also has various papers in print, and two printed books called El esfuerzo de estar presente, 2001 and Breve historia del concepto de imagen corporal, 2017. Dr. Roth is currently writing a book under contract with Routledge Publishing, U.K. Routledge is the world's most leading academic publisher in the Human Sciences

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