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Difficult Conversations: Therapists Addressing Peace and Justice in Palestine/Israel. Wed, Nov 13, 2024 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST online
Join Gabor Maté M.D. for a Live Talk & Q&A exploring what therapists’ responsibility is to the global atrocities happening in the world. Recent events in the Middle East, saliently the atrocities in Gaza, have evoked not only controversy, but have triggered deep grief, rage, despair, intra-group hostility, and alienation. Psychotherapy has historically focused on… Read more
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Is Politics the Last Taboo in Psychoanalysis?
A Roundtable Discussion with: Neil Altman, Jessica Benjamin, Ted Jacobs, and Paul Wachtel. Moderated by: Amanda Hirsch Geffner Read more
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Psychoanalytic Clinic Implicated: Connections with Culture, Society and Politics. By: Ivan Estevão
This article addresses the dilemmas of the advancement of psychoanalysis when taking into account certain problems, such as social exclusion, racism and others. These issues emerge when the psychoanalyst offers his or her listening in the pólis: in health care, assistance or education institutions, in communities. Such clinical-political psychoanalytic practices find the limits of its… Read more
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Anti Racism: A Study Resource
An annotated bibliography of research materials for antiracist study, compiled by Stillpoint Magazine. Contents: Read more
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An Audience With: Paul Hoggett – Paradise Lost? The Climate Crisis and the Human Condition. 12/9/24 via Zoom
Join us online for this special event with psychoanalytic psychotherapist Paul Hoggett, where he will discuss his most recent book, ‘Paradise Lost? The Climate Crisis and the Human Condition’, with psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe. Their conversation will focus in particular on the nature of reactionary states of mind in the context of the deepening climate crisis.Date: 12/09/2024 Time:… Read more
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Fascination and horror about psychoanalysis. Reflections on C. Gheorghe’s article ”Decolonization, polarization, psychoanalysis, privilege”. L. Poenaru
Addressing the intersection of two polemical concepts, psychoanalysis and the University, exposes us to the intersection of various taboos that risk parasitizing the logical coherence of our proposal. The taboos of psychoanalysis are well-known, since they are at the origin of its exclusion from academic and clinical circles: persistence of theoretical dogmas, methodological and epistemological… Read more
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