LISTENING TO TRAUMA: INSIGHTS AND ACTIONS —Announcing a major multi-disciplinary psychoanalytic conference on trauma—
This is a ‘Save the Date” and Call for Papers. Submission of papers is invited (see below) .
The Conference will be at The George Washington University, Washington D.C., October 20-22, 2016, where clinicians, academics, and researchers will share knowledge and experience through plenary talks, paper sessions, small group roundtables and workshops and other special events.
Participants will advance the understanding of trauma through interdisciplinary explorations. Presenters include scholars and clinicians from psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, literature, history, political science, journalism, public policy and other disciplines.
This wide-ranging conference, emphasizing psychoanalysis throughout, will include presentations on all types of psychological trauma, including terrorism, the Holocaust, torture, sexual violence, developmental(childhood) trauma, war, psychosis and trauma and others, from the viewpoints of witnessing and testimony, psychoanalytic treatment, journalism, somatic therapies, minorities, inter-generational transmission, literature, history, dissociation, brain and neuroscience, metaphor and the unconscious, and others.
A current reading of interest to Conference attendees is Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience, by Cathy Caruth, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2014.
Confirmed presenters include
Robert Jay Lifton(Columbia)
Cathy Caruth(Cornell)
Francoise Davoine(Paris)
Dori Laub(Yale)
Nancy Sherman(Georgetown)
Jessica Stern(Harvard)
Gerard Fromm(Austen Riggs)
Richard Chefetz(Washington)
Jane Shore(George Washington University GWU)
Howard Norman(Univ. of Maryland)
Lisa Page(George Washington Univesity)
Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune, MSNBC, NPR)
Arthur Blank Jr.(Washington Center for Psychoanalysis)
Alan Dyer(GWU-Psychiatry)
Nancy Goodman(Contemporary Freudian Society)
James Griffith(GWU-Psychiatry)
Harold Kudler(Dept. of Veterans Affairs)
Marilyn Meyers(Washington School of Psychiatry)
Evelyn Schreiber(GWU-Department of English)
Extensive information on the presenters is available through searching by name on line.
Please see the Conference web site for all information, including all information on submitting papers. It is expected that over 100 submitted papers will be presented in concurrent sessions. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS MAY 15, 2016.
The web site is
www.Listeningtotrauma.org.
For further information contact either of the Conference co-chairs :
Arthur Blank Jr M.D. (Psychoanalyst, Clinical Professor, GWU Psychiatry) at asbjrmd@aol.com
Marshall Alcorn Ph.D.(Chairman, Department of English, The George Washington University) at marshall.alcorn@gmail.com
And for logistical questions, contact the Conference administrator, Natalie Shear at
natalie@natalieshearassociates.com