Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, October 3rd 2015
A one-day Psychoanalysis and Politics symposium to commemorate 70 years of the liberation of Auschwitz and pose the question of what the Shoah means for us today.
Confirmed speakers:
DAVID CESARANI, OBE, Professor, History, Royal Holloway – Survivors as Diagnosticians: Early Attempts to Comprehend the Nazi Catastrophe by Physicians and Psychologists
EDIE FRIEDMAN, Director, Jewish Council for Racial Equality – Jews and the Struggle for Social Justice: Why We Sometimes Fail to Live up to Our Tradition and Experience
GABY GLASSMAN, Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Trustee AJR – Trauma and History: What Do We Do with What Has Happened?
CALUM NEILL, Lecturer, Psychology, Edinburgh Napier University – Not to Naught: Paul Celan and the Necessary Failure of the Ever Coming Word
DAVID POLAK, Psychotherapist, UKCP reg. – Sleeping with the Door Open: The Unconscious Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma
IRENE BRUNA SEU, Reader, Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck/Psychotherapist, UKCP reg. – Bystanders to Human Rights Violations and Genocide: A Psychosocial Perspective
ZÖE WAXMAN, Associate, Oriental Institute, Oxford – An Exceptional Genocide? Sexual Violence in the Holocaust
Tickets are available from Eventbrite; General admission £ 45. A small number of discounted tickets are available at £ 35 – please only use this option if you really need it. We thank you in advance for additional donations. Lunch is included. Please note that the fee is non-refundable.
Link to register for the symposium
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICS SYMPOSIUM 2016
SOLIDARITY AND ALIENATION: SOCIAL STRUCTURES OF HOPE AND DESPAIR
The next Psychoanalysis and Politics symposium will take place in Vienna May 6th-8th 2016. The title is Solidarity and Alienation: Social Structures of Hope and Despair. A call for papers and more information is forthcoming Sept./Oct. 2015. The deadline for abstracts will be in November/early December. Venue: the Sigmund Freud University, Campus Prater, Freudplatz 1, A-1020 Wien. See also the guide for abstracts.
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