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Online Event- 28 May 2026, 8.00pm AEST ‘Impossibility of Working in Organisations, Institutional Harm, and the Loss of Truth. Presenter: Dr Rachel Gibbons
The seminar explores how organisations exposed to unbearable human realities can lose their capacity to think, tell the truth, and care. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and clinical experience, it examines how unconscious anxiety hardens into organisational terror, giving rise to defensive cultures of blame, scapegoating, and ritualised accountability. Through case examples from healthcare and mental… Read more
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Online Event: 15th – 16 May 2026 – A Black Empathic Approach to Therapeutic Practice and Relational Support
Engaging with Oppression in Practice, Supervision and Training (From the writings of Dr Isha Mckenzie Mavinga) Outline This workshop is presented by BPOC Masters trained by Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga in a ‘Black Empathic approach’ to therapy and the challenge of racism. This training is currently running online. The workshop supports participants to develop a framework for… Read more
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Hybrid Event- 29-30 August, 2026 – Minds Under Siege: Dehumanization & Reparation
The Australian Psychoanalytical Society’s Annual Conference Open Days, will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, on 29–30 August 2026. Registrations are now open via the link below, which also includes the full Open Day programme: https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au/open-days-2026 This year’s theme, Minds Under Siege: Dehumanization & Reparation, brings together leading clinicians and thinkers to explore the psychoanalytic dimensions of contemporary clinical… Read more
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Online Course [Portuguese] Economia Psíquica no Colonialismo – Curso totalmente On-line / April 9
Economia Psíquica no Colonialismo – Curso totalmente On-line APRESENTAÇÃO: Este minicurso propõe uma investigação sobre o colonialismo como uma economia psíquica coletiva, analisando como o poder colonialista não se organiza apenas por meio de instituições políticas e econômicas materiais, mas também através da produção de fantasias, delírios, desejos, medos e formas institucionalizadas de sofrimento psíquico. Partindo… Read more
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Exigent Sadism: Austerity Logics and the Antireparative Turn by Avgi Saketopoulou
Avgi Saketopoulou; Exigent Sadism: Austerity Logics and the Antireparative Turn. Social Text 1 March 2026; 44 (1 (166)): 25–51. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-12195785 Abstract This article arises from an ethical curiosity about why individuals do not resist state violence, ethnonationalist escalations, and the rise of fascism and is driven by the urgency for theory with teeth—theory, that is, that can move… Read more
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Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture, by Heather Murray. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Description Asylum Ways of Seeing is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heather Murray also suggests that it is in these hospitals that patients became more intense observers: they gave more conscious consideration to institutional… Read more
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