Crossing Borders
Clinical, Theoretical, Cultural and Political Implications in our Changing World
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Download the full conference programme and detailed plenary abstracts for 11 April 24, 12 April 24, 13 April 24 and 14 April 24.
Thursday 11 April 2024: pre-conference session
Cultural Complexes and Race
9.15 Welcome
9.30-11.00 Presentations by each facilitator chaired by Amanda Dowd
- Christopher Jerome Carter (US): The Current Role of Analytical Psychology in Maintaining the Fictitious Boundaries Promoted Through the Race Lie, and the Call to Dismantle this Virtual Wall that Exists Through Attitudes of White Supremacy
- Elizabeth Brodersen (GER): The Positioning of Taboo within Cultural Complexes—Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives
- Helen Morgan (UK): The Work of Whiteness
11.00 Morning coffee
11.30-13.00 First workshops – participants to choose which facilitator’s group they join first
13.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Second workshops – participants each to join a different second facilitator’s group
15.30 Afternoon tea
16.00-17.00 Plenary with all facilitators chaired by Amanda Dowd
Friday 12 April 2024
Borders around Identity: Cultural Expressions of Trauma
8.00-9.00 Social dreaming matrix with Ali Zarbafi
9.15 Welcome opening address and first plenary speaker chaired by Ann Addison
9.30-9.45 Renos Papadopoulos (UK) (via Zoom)
9.45-10.45 Monica Luci (UK/IT): Disputed Boundaries of the Self, the Group, and their Environment: What we Learn from Refugees about Trauma, War and Culture. Watch Monica Luci's introduction to this talk
10.45 Morning coffee
11.15-12.15 Karin Fleischer (Argentina): Stolen Identities, Suspended Lives: Embodied Analysis with Victims of Early Trauma Due to State Terrorism
12.15 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Breakout panels 1 (Download the breakout panels timetable)
15.00 Afternoon tea
15.30-17.00 Breakout panels 2 (Download the breakout panels timetable)
17.30-18.15 Andrew Samuels (UK): On Analytical Psychology and Politics: A Cutting Edge and Transformative Contribution—OR A Narcissistic Total Waste of Time Only of Interest to Some Analysts and Therapists? Chaired by Arthur Niesser
Watch Andrew Samuels's introduction to this talk
18.30 Evening drinks reception
Saturday 13 April 2024
Borders around Identity: Gender Fluidity: Self in Culture
8.00-9.00 Social dreaming matrix with Ali Zarbafi
9.45 Welcome and first plenary speaker chaired by John Merchant
10.00-11.00 Robert Tyminski (US): Humanizing Different Archetypal Expressions of Gender Expansiveness. Watch Robert Tyminski's introduction to this talk.
11.00 Morning coffee
11.30-12.30 Jay Barlow (UK): Engendering Identity when Boundaries Confirm an Exiled Self
12.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Breakout panels 1 (Download the breakout panels timetable)
15.00 Afternoon tea
15.30-17.00 Breakout panels 2 (Download the breakout panels timetable)
Saturday evening: Conference gala dinner
Sunday 14 April 2024
Borders around Identity: Working Within and Across Different Faiths
8.00-9.00 Social dreaming matrix
9.45 Welcome and first plenary speaker chaired by Carolyn Bates
10.00-11.00 Leslie Stein (US/AU): The Self in the Consulting Room. The Power of Crossing Borders. Watch Les Stein's introduction to this talk.
11.00 Morning coffee
11.30-12.30 Murray Stein (US/CH): The Faithless Analyst (via Zoom) Watch Murray Stein's introduction to this talk.
12.30 Break
12.45-13.45 Closing conference plenary chaired by Arthur Niesser
Co-sponsored by The Society of Analytical Psychology and the University of Essex
Artist: Lindsey C. Harris
Essex Business School
Essex Business School Lecture Hall