About this course

Learning Objectives

• Explain Freud’s concept of destructive instinct
• Describe Freud’s concept of erotic instinct
• Discuss the dual capacity for good and evil in Freud’s theory
• Discuss the place of shared identification and sense of community in ending violent conflict
• Discuss the view of civilization as a ‘process’
• Discuss interventions for individuals affected by violent conflict
• Describe group and community-based interventions for communities affected by war
• Compare the intrapsychic world of conventional psychoanalysis with radically intersubjective world proposed by González
• Describe the role of psychoanalysis on the discussion of war

Course Instructor(s)

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  Cathy Hicks, PhD

  Australia

  Cathy Hicks PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney, Australia. She is a founder member and past president of the Australian Chapter of IARPP, and a former Board member of the IARPP. She was co-chair of the 2017 IARPP Annual Conference, held in Sydney, and is one of the current co-chairs of the IARPP Colloquium Committee.

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  Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, PhD

  Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, PhD. is a Clinical psychologist and training psychoanalyst in the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is Chair of the Psychotherapy Program, School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, and Editor in Chief of Maarag - The Israeli Annual of Psychoanalysis, The Hebrew University. IARPP board member and co-chair of Intl. Colloquium Committee Author of "Truth Matters: Theory and Practice in Psychoanalysis " - Brill | Rodopi, 2016, and co-author of “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction” – Routledge 2023.

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  Eyal Rozmarin, PhD

  PhD

  Eyal Rozmarin, PhD, co-chairs the IARPP Collective Committee. He is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, former co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and an associate editor of the Routledge book series, Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis.

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  Steven Kuchuck, DSW

  USA

  Dr. Steven Kuchuck is Senior Consulting Editor (formerly Editor-in-Chief) of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Co-Editor; Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series, Immediate Past President of IARPP, faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Board Member, supervisor, faculty, at NIP, and faculty/supervisor at the NIP National Training Program, Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and other institutes. Dr. Kuchuck’s teaching and writing focus primarily on the clinical impact of the therapist’s subjectivity. His most recent book is The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (Confer Books, 2021).In 2015 and 2016 he won the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne Harris). His clinical and supervisory practice is in Manhattan.

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  Chana Ullman Ph.D

  Israel

  Chana Ullman, Ph.D, is a Clinical Psychologist, a Training Psychoanalyst and faculty at the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Ullman is faculty and supervisor at the relational track, the school of Psychotherapy, school of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, and faculty at the doctoral program of Psychoanalysis at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Ullman is past- president of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of the book "The transformed self: The psychology of religious conversion" (Plenum press, 1989) and of numerous publications regarding witnessing, political context and the psychoanalytic process from a relational perspective. She lives and practices in Rehovot, Israel.

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  Sally Swartz, Ph.D., M.S., M.A.

  South Africa

  I am an active (and founding) member of the Cape Town Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (CTPSP) group, a psychoanalytic group that meets monthly, and runs various kinds of training for practitioners. I was a member of teaching faculty for their advanced training over the past 3 years, and offered course and open seminars on relational psychoanalysis. I have a psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice, and am a senior supervisor. I have run a course on Winnicott and his legacy for qualified practitioners (3 two-hour seminars, 30+ participants), and will run it again in 2018. I serve on the Curriculum Committee that sets readings for discussion year by year.

  I am a member of International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), and have presented papers at their annual conferences (two plenaries). I have also been on the panels of two IARPP online colloquia.

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  MEHR-AFARIN KOHAN, MD, FRCPC

  Activism as a Therapeutic Home

  Dr. Mehr-Afarin Kohan is a Toronto-based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She received her medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University, completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Toronto and completed her analytic training at the Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TICP). She spends most of her time doing long-term psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at her private practice in Toronto and works with refugees at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT). She is a psychodynamic psychotherapy supervisor at the University of Toronto. She is a board member, academic director and faculty at the TICP. She is the co-chair of the IARPP’s Candidates Committee. She was the recipient of the 2016 Susanne Chassay Memorial Paper Award from the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She has previously published in the Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is also an award-winning published fiction writer. For more information visit mehrafarinkohan.com.

Disclosure

References

• Einstein, A., & Freud, S. (1933). Why war? Allen & Unwin:
• Bragin, M. (2019). Pour a Libation for Us: Restoring the Sense of a Moral Universe to Children Affected by Violence . Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 18(3), 201–211.
• Mucci, C. (2018). Psychoanalysis for a new humanism: Embodied testimony, connectedness, memory and forgiveness for a “persistence of the human.” International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 27(3), 176–187.
• Howell, E. F., & Itzkowitz, S. (2018). Psychopathy and Human Evil: Introduction. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 54(1), 5–16.
• Ainslie, Ricardo. (2013). Intervention strategies for addressing collective trauma: Healing communities ravaged by racial strife. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 18, 140–152.