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Our Work Continues
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Jonathan Sklar, M.D.
PSYCHOANALYSIS, ANALYTIC INSTITUTES AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN UNCONSCIOUS
In this paper I address how we might develop states of freedom in analysis and in the analyst from the tangles of unconsciousness that exist in our unconscious mind, within the psychoanalytic society that trained us, and from the unspoken depths of our wider culture. We cannot think about trauma in the individual without thinking of it in generational terms, as well as in terms of the cultural heritage that formed the backdrop to the development of psychoanalysis from within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. What are the interfaces between personal and historical trauma, and in particular the interface with unconscious processes? How can the mind take a measure of history, when history will submit neither to the reason of the world nor to the mind that confronts it? What we can grasp of the innermost life of the patient and of the world he or she lives in, and by which he or she is so profoundly affected is also a part of a broader history entwining ontological history and specific cultures. Totalitarian regimes in the 20th century have had a massive impact on the world; including psychoanalytic societies everywhere, which I argue is ongoing.
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Dr. Jonathan Sklar, MBBS, FRCPsych, is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society. Following psychiatric qualification, Dr. Sklar trained for four years in adult psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic before becoming Consultant Psychotherapist in Cambridge (1984-1996). In psychoanalytic practice for 30 years in London, he has been a training analyst since 1996. From 2007-2011, he was Vice President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation, with special responsibility for seminars for recently qualified analysts as well as new analytic groups in the former communist countries in Europe. As well as lecturing widely across the world, he has taught psychoanalysis annually in South Africa and heads a psychoanalytic discussion group that meets termly in Chicago. His Landscapes of the Dark – History, Trauma, and Psychoanalysis was published by Karnac November 2011, and his second book, Michael Balint – His Theory and Technique with Reference to Alice and Enid Balint was published by the IJPA in the Autumn 2012. Karnac will publish his next book, entitled Balint Matters: Groups and Training in 2013.
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SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS PROGRAM OF THE AIP 2012-13
OUR WORK CONTINUES
RECENT EVENTS:
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Presenters: LEWIS ARON, Ph.D. & KAREN STARR, Psy.D.
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Presenter: JAY GREENBERG, Ph.D.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Please mark your calendar for these dates. We are looking forward to seeing you.
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 8:00 PM
Presenter: JONATHAN SKLAR, M.D.
Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 8:00 PM
Presenter: ROSEMARY BALSAM, M.D.
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 8:00 PM
Presenter: DANIELLE KNAFO, Ph.D.