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ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2012
SATURDAY MARCH 24
On Site: Being at the Scene of Conflict
Vamik Volkan, M.D.
Leora Kahn, Executive Director of 'PROOF: Media For Social Justice'
Matthew Shaw, Ph.D.-Moderator
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On Site: Being at the Scene of Conflict
Varnik Volkan, M.D.
Leora Kahn
Matthew Shaw, Ph.D., Moderator
The Date: March 24th, 2012
The Time: 8:30AM - 12:45PM
The Place: Yale Child Study Center
Donald Cohen Auditorium
230 South Frontage Road
New Haven, Connecticut
‘On Site’ examines the psychological experiences of participant observers at scenes of conflict. This year’s symposium will focus in particular on the intersection of photojournalism and psychoanalysis.
We will examine the psychological experiences of individuals bearing witness to conflict. To live is to live with conflict. In our relationships, through the media and within ourselves, tension abounds. As participant observers we must confront the limitations and complications of our role. Both psychoanalysts and photojournalists bear witness to extreme experiences and yet are not integrated into nor protected from these traumatic scenes.
Leora Kahn will explore the ways in which photojournalists and rescue workers affect and are affected by their role documenting and thereby participating in intensely tumultuous situations. Through her rescue work with survivors of ethnic violence, Leora will consider the varied roles she has occupied and her complicated thoughts and feelings about her participation. In this context, she will also discuss her close relationship with one of the Mengele twins over many years.
Dr. Volkan will present a case report tracing the impact of a transgenerational transmission of trauma informing an individual’s character. He will explore the inner life of the individual born into trauma who then becomes the perpetrator. In so doing, he will challenge all of us to examine our emotional inheritances. He will explicate his psycho-political theory concerning the intergenerational transmission of trauma and its relationship to the formation of large and small group identities and the eruption of ethnic violence around the world.
There will be discussion periods after each talk and an open discussion at the end of the program.
Leora Kahn, Executive Director. PROOF
Leora Kahn is the Founder and Executive Director of PROOF: Media for Social Justice. She has been a photo editor for over 25 years working at Workman Publishing, Corbis, Time, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, US News and World Report, the Ford Foundation, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. She has curated exhibitions for ABC Television, Amnesty International, the Women’s Refugee Commission, and the Holocaust Museum of Houston. Ms. Kahn has numerous publications and her documentary film credits include Rene and I and Original Intent. She is a former Fellow at the Genocide Studies Center at Yale University, the recipient of the Adrianne de Rothschild Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship, and a recent recipient of a Fulbright Specialist Grant.
Vamik Volkan, MD, DLFAPA, FACPsa
Dr. Volkan is the Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at the University of Virginia. He is currently the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA and is an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute in Washington D.C. Dr. Volkan has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize four times for his theoretical ideas and their application regarding psychopolitical underpinnings in ethnic conflicts, racism, national identity, terrorism, and societal trauma. Dr. Volkan is the author of over forty books and more than 400 scientific papers. He is currently writing a book with the working title, Without Bullets and Bombs: A Psychoanalyst’s Journey into the World of Politics.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
8:30am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am-9:05am
Opening Remarks, Matthew Shaw, Ph.D.
9:05am-10:00am
Leora Kahn, Executive Director, 'PROOF'-Reflections of a Researcher: In the Field with Genocide Testimonies From Survivors to Rescuers
10:00am-10:25am
Discussion
10:25am-10:45am
Coffee Break and Book Raffle
10:45am-11:45am
Dr. Vamik Volkan-Transmission of Trauma in Individual and in Group Psychology
11:45-12:45pm
Discussion
For further information contact:
Rachel Bergeron, Ph.D.,Registrar
441 Orange Street
New Haven, CT 06511
203.777.5049
2012 Symposium Committee:
Eileen Becker-Dunn, L.C.S.W., Co-Chair
Matt Shaw, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Rachel Bergeron, Ph.D.,J.D.
Deborah Fried, M.D.
Lisa Marcus, Ph.D.
Linda Mayes, M.D.
Nancy Olson, M.D.
Joan Poll, M.D.
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SATURDAY MARCH 24, 2012
Dr. Vamik Volkan
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The Forgotten: Siblings in Psychic Development
Karen Gilmore, M.D.
Jill Miller, Ph.D.
Juliet Mitchell, Ph.D.
Eileen Becker-Dunn, MSW, Moderator
The Date: April 9th, 2011
The Time: 8:30AM - 1PM
The Place: Yale Child Study Center
Donald Cohen Auditorium
230 South Frontage Road
New Haven, Connecticut
Parents are not the only relatives who influence their children. As psychoanalysts, teachers and pediatricians have noted, siblings profoundly shape children's emotional lives and psychic development. However, their influence has been marginalized in some psychological circles. The speakers will discuss people's experiences and fantasies of having (and not having) siblings. They will present vivid case material and broader thinking about these relationships throughout the lifespan.
Dr. Juliet Mitchell will explain why psychoanalysts have privileged vertical (parent-child) over lateral (sibling) relationships, the consequences of such a bias, and the implications of taking brothers and sisters seriously. She will address these dynamics intra-psychically, inter-personally, and globally. Dr. Jill Miller will then present clinical material in which lateral dynamics feature prominently. She will describe the inner lives of these individuals and her approach to communicating with them. Dr. Karen Gilmore will then discuss both papers. She will interweave the theoretical with the clinical and provide observations and questions that will enhance the group discussion.
Ample time will be allotted for audience participation.
Karen Gilmore, M.D.
Dr. Karen Gilmore is currently Senior Associate Director of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Director of the Child Division. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at Columbia Medical School and also at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute where she was trained. She is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia. Dr. Gilmore has published a number of papers on a range of clinical topics, such as developmental theory, adoption, sexual development and gender identity disorder, and attention deficit disorder.
Jill Miller, Ph.D.
Dr. Jill Miller is a Child, Adolescent, and Adult Training and Supervising Analyst at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical School. She received her child and adolescent psychoanalytic training at the Anna Freud Center in London and her Ph.D. at University College London. She has authored numerous journal articles and books on topics related to children's development of insight, reactions to divorce, the function of a sense of shame in children, technical reconstruction of pre-verbal trauma, and historical reflections on the work of Anna Freud and Hansi Kennedy and the War Nurseries.
Juliet Mitchell, Ph.D.
Juliet Mitchell is a Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge, Convenor of Gender Studies in a Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She is a Full Member of the British and the International Psychoanalytical Societies. Her most recent books are Siblings: Sex and Violence, Polity Press (2003) and Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Sibling Relationship for the Human Condition, Allen Lane/Penguin Press and Basic Books. (2000).
Saturday, April 9th 2011
8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am Welcome and Introduction
Eileen Becker-Dunn, MSW
9:05am Dr. Juliet Mitchell
9:55am Discussion
10:20am Coffee Break
10:35am Book raffle
10:45am Dr. Jill Miller
11:35am Dr. Karen Gilmore
12:20pm Discussion
For further information contact:
Ms. Kathy Wilcox
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2011 Symposium Committee:
Eileen Becker-Dunn, L.C.S.W., Co-Chair
Matt Shaw, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Rachel Bergeron, Ph.D.,J.D.
Linda Mayes, M.D.
Jack Miller, M.D.
Vicoria Morrow, Ph.D.,M.D.
Debra Nudel, Ph.D.
Nancy Olson, M.D.
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Annual Symposium 2010
The Society sponsors a symposium to bring psychoanalytic ideas to the community at large.
The Symposium is a component of the educational and outreach efforts of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society. Its mission is to make psychoanalytic ideas understandable and accessible to a wide range of educational, medical and mental health professionals in the broader community. The symposium addresses topics at the leading edge of psychoanalytic thought and theory. For decades, the symposium has hosted dozens of psychoanalytic scholars including Hanna Segal, Hans Loewald, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and many psychoanalysts from the Western New England Institute. Past Symposia.
2010 Symposium: Skin Deep.
Skin Deep: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Body Modification
The symposium most recently brought together a cross-pollination of psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians, as well as, general surgeons from the community in its 2010 symposium entitled, Skin Deep: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Body Modification.
On May 1st one hundred and six people gathered to discuss individuals’ experiences of, fantasies about, and difficulties with their bodies. Two surgeons, Dr. Deborah Pan and Dr. David Astrachan, presented vivid case material about people who surgically altered their chins, waistlines, breasts, and eyelids. While enthralling the audience with before and after photos, they described their patients’ complex motivations and the diagnostic dilemmas surrounding such interventions. Two analysts, Dr. Janice Lieberman from Manhattan and Dr. Alessandra Lemma from London, then discussed the surgeons’ case material, presented their own nuanced and varied theories about body modification, and led the audience through a series of analytic treatments.
2011 Symposium Committee:
Eileen Becker-Dunn, L.C.S.W., Co-Chair
Matt Shaw, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Rachel Bergeron, Ph.D.
Linda Mayes, M.D.
Jack Miller, M.D.
Debra Nudel, Ph.D.
Nancy Olson, M.D.
This year’s symposium will take us where only children dare to tread. Clinical work, like fairy tales, pulls us into the dark heart of powerful emotional experiences. Potent but forbidden feelings - jealous rage, competitiveness, and desire - grip us. Children dance with delight in the terror, transgression, beauty and dazzle of fairy tales. Adults and clinicians, however, often stop at the door of ‘grandma’s house’ and turn away. We will explore the overlapping psychological edges of passion and prohibition in fairy tales and in psychoanalysis.
Dr. Kulish will examine the obstacles to acknowledging and addressing Oedipal passions, in ourselves, our theories and our linical work. She will present clinical material as well as explore some ideas stimulated by the film Sleeping Beauty by Catherine Breillat to illustrate these difficulties, their possible underlying meanings, and the ways we have of trying to escape them. Dr. Kulish will also focus on homoerotic aspects of the Oedipal situation as a particularly charged area of desire and taboo.
In the last decade, Hollywood has moved fairy tales back into adult culture, taking up and refashioning “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Snow White,” “Hansel & Gretel,” “Rapunzel,” and other stories. Many fairy-tale figures are now armed and ready for action. These warrior princesses enact revenge fantasies more than they explore perils and possibilities at home and in the woods. Professor Tatar will explore how we have taken tales from times past and sharpened their disciplinary edge, while retaining prohibitions and teaching lessons when we tell them to children. Our new adult appropriations are deeply invested in the complexities of passion and compassion, with heroines who are, like Scheherazade, to double duty bound. They are not just survivors of toxic domestic environments but also agents of social justice and transformation.
Nancy Kulish, Ph.D.
Dr. Kulish is a faculty member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. She is the author of many professional journal articles and books and is on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Kulish co-authored with Dr. Deanna Holtzman, the groundbreaking book, A Story of Her Own: The Female Oedipus Complex Reexamined and Renamed which explores the limitations of the Oedipus myth as a template to describe female development. It argues that the myth of Persephone and Demeter offers a more useful model of development for girls. Dr. Kulish is currently in full-time private practice in Birmingham, Michigan.
Maria Tatar, PhD
Professor Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the chair of the Folklore and Mythology Program at Harvard University. She is a leading scholar of fairy tales and the author of numerous journal articles and over fifteen books including, The Hard Facts of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Spellbound: Studies in Mesmerism and Literature, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood. She is the editor and translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, The Annotated Peter Pan, and The Grimm Reader.
Professor Tatar’s most recent book, Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, explores how fairy tales animate the inner life of a child’s mind. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including those from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her scholarship appeals widely to the general public and the academic world. She has written for the New York Times, the New Republic and the New Yorker and is a frequent guest on NPR.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
8:30am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am-9:05am
Opening Remarks, Eileen Becker-Dunn, M.S.W.
9:05am-10:05am
Maria Tatar, Ph.D.
Mythical, Magical, and Back with a Vengeance
10:05am-10:25am
Discussion
10:25am-10:45am
Coffee Break and Book Raffle
10:45am-11:45am
Nancy Kulish, Ph.D.
The Forgotten: Oedipal Passions in Psychoanalysis
11:45-12:45pm
Discussion
For further information contact:
Rachel Bergeron, Ph.D.,Registrar
441 Orange Street
New Haven, CT 06511
203.777.5049
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
2013 Symposium Committee:
Eileen Becker-Dunn, L.C.S.W., Chair
Rachel Bergeron, Ph.D., J.D. Registar
Angela Cappieillo, M.D.
Deborah Fried, M.D.
Lisa Marcus, Ph.D.
Linda Mayes, M.D.
Joan Poll, M.D.