In a historical moment when the news media has repeatedly displayed the wanton killing of black men and women, the connection between African American identity and trauma seems especially salient. This talk will work through Lacanian psychoanalytic notions of subjectivity to ground an understanding of African American identity as mediated by social trauma.
Engagement with another’s internal world is a complex affair, which can be mutually enriching if on
Psychotherapist and playwright Elizabeth Clark-Stern was inspired by Jungian Analyst Laura Lewis Thayer's use of Jung’s number theory to link the “observable world” of touch, sight, scent, and sound to the spiritual reality of the unconscious mind. It was a revelation to realize that there is no separation between the world we see and feel, and the world of our dreams, our experience of synchronicity, and our knowledge of the divine.
Dr. Panajian will explore the place of the passions involved with the containing function of the analytic therapist.
Both immigration and retirement entail loss and require re-definition of identity. Retirement poses major challenges for anyone. For an immigrant, retirement has an additional aspect of reactivating the trauma of immigration with its losses and the necessity to develop a new cultural identity. Within the context of an immigrant analyst’s personal story, Dr.
Negative therapeutic reaction, a term coined by Freud (1923) to describe the patient’s abrupt and reflexive turning away from the analytic relationship immediately following recognition of the analyst’s understanding and interpretive helpfulness, has evolved in how it is understood theoretically and applied clinically over the past century. Notably, identifying the determinative role of envy and destructive narcissism has obviated pessimism about the analyzability of individuals demonstrating these reactions.
Intuition or the ability to understand something without need of conscious reasoning is an accepted, yet elusive, analytic tool. Bion attempted to describe the process of intuitive understanding through his concept of at-one-ment or becoming O of the session. At-one-ment or moments of complete unity with the analysand’s psychic reality is an extremely complex concept to define much less to operationalize in analytic practice.
This Special Scientific Meeting is being planned in anticipation of the 13th International Evolving British Relations Conference (EBOR), tentatively scheduled for October, 2022 in Seattle with Nicola Abel-Hirsch, of London and Avner Bergstein, of Tel Aviv.
This presentation will consider the toxic nature of nostalgia by locating it in an intermediate position between mourning and melancholy. Thus, rather than trauma being remembered and worked through, nostalgia maintains repetition and unbearable emotional existence, even across generations. This is particularly true for the trauma related to the painful history of racism in the United States.
“Two-eyed seeing” is a concept that was originated by Elder Albert Marshall of Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Cape Breton University to give indigenous epistemology and knowledge equal status with mainstream scientific perspectives and knowledge. In M’iqmaq, the word is Etuaptmunk. In English, it means the idea of explanatory pluralism. Within most indigenous cultures, the mind is not considered separately from body, community, and spirituality, unlike the silos created in the dominant culture. Healing must involve the body, the community, and the spirits.