The Psychology & the Other Conference is a biennial convening that aims to revitalize psychology by bringing it into dialogue with philosophy, theology, and other humanities rich traditions. Since its inception in 2011, the Conference has served to gather under a single intellectual roof perspectives that had heretofore been largely isolated from one another. Attended by clinicians, academic psychologists, philosophers, theologians, historians, poets, anthropologists, and cultural theorists, this community attempts to foster new and emergent ways of speaking to human identity, suffering, and potential in order to better serve the call of the suffering Other.

One of the distinctive features of the conference is the intentional pairing of plenary speakers with persons from different disciplines to create a type of catalytic engagement that upsets the insularity and jargon-laden fixtures that often come to determine the currency of exchange at discipline-specific conferences.

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Arthur Kleinman
Harvard University
On Care in Mental Health: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition

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Patricia Gherovici
University of Pennsylvania
Gender Transition Between Life and Death

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David Eng
University of Pennsylvania
Reparations and the Human: Racial Rage, Racial Guilt

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Francoise Davoine
Psychoanalyst
How to Build the Other from Scratch After Its Destruction? A Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Approach

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Leswin Laubscher
Duquesne University
Whom Shall I Walk With? Reflections of a Black(ish) South African scholar in the North American Academy

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Lewis Gordon
University of Connecticut
Psychoanalysis as a Decolonial Practice

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Miroslav Volf
Yale University
Life Worth Living: What Matters Most?

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Pamela Cooper-White
Union Theological Seminary
The Psycholog(ies) of Christian Nationalism: What Draws People In, & Whether, When and How to Talk Across the Extremist Divide

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