About this course

Learning Objectives

• List the goals of the #MeToo movement.
• Discuss some of the limitations of the #Me Too movement.
• Describe the role of the socio-political context in our interpretation of trauma.
• Explain the concept of dissociative spell.
• Discuss dissociation in the context of trauma.
• State the impact that sexual trauma has on memory.

Learning Levels

• Beginner

Course Instructor(s)

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  Orna Guralnik, PsyD

  PsyD

  Orna Guralnik is on faculty at NIP, visiting scholar at PINC and on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender & Sexuality. She publishes on the topics of dissociation and psychoanalysis & culture.

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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

  Israel

  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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  Francisco Gonzalez, MD

  MD

  Francisco J. González, MD, is Faculty and Personal & Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, where he also serves as Co-Director and Community Psychoanalysis Supervising Analyst in the Community Psychoanalysis Track. For over 20 years, he has worked as staff psychiatrist and consultant at Instituto Familiar de la Raza, a clinic for Latino immigrants in San Francisco. He is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and book and film reviews; his writing, which focuses on the articulation of psychic life at the intersection of the individual and the collective — including the domains of gender, sexuality, racialized difference, immigration, film, and group—has been awarded the Symonds Prize, the Ralph Roughton Award, and a JAPA Best Paper Award (2019). Dr. Gonzalez also serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Disclosure

References

• Orna Guralnik (2020) #Me Too, I Was Interpellated, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30:3, 251-257, DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1744964
• Gentile, J. (2018). Trump, Freud, the Puzzle of Femininity—and #MeToo. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 54(4), 699–708. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2018.1527197
• Virginia Goldner (2020) Pleasure Can Hurt: The Erotic Politics of Sexual Coercion, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30:3, 239-250, DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1744963
• Megan Kolano (2022) The Pleasure of Misogyny – Incels, Castration, and Sexual Difference, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 42:7, 544-556, DOI: 10.1080/07351690.2022.2121142
• White, R. (2024) Interpellation and Group Polarization: Aspects of Group Hatred. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 21:e1873