Speaking in San Francisco March 17
I will be speaking in San Francisco March 17 at a wonderful conference sponsored by the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). I’d love to meet some California colleagues:
UNFREE ASSOCIATION:
The Politics and Psychology of Torture in a Time of Terror
Saturday, March 17, 2007 9 am - 3:45 pm
The U.S. Government’s policies and practices in its War on Terror have created deep divisions across the country and around the world. None has been more inflammatory than the evidence of torture practices within the military and intelligence services. The American Psychological Association has been embroiled in ethical and political controversy over psychologists’ consulting
role in the military’s treatment of detainees.In this conference we bring together four psychologists who have been at the forefront of the ongoing debate within the APA about psychologists’ assistance to the military. Two presenters, Neil Altman and Ghislaine Boulanger, have initiated actions to abolish psychologists’ controversial involvement in interrogation practices, and will discuss their differing positions toward the APA.
This particular debate raises a larger question about the role of psychologists as cultural and political witnesses/bystanders in a time of terror. Steven Soldz and Nancy Hollander will provide a timely look at this question as it affects both our day-to-day practice and our position as psychologists and psychoanalysts in the cultural unconscious. In addition, Elissa Marder, professor of literature, will examine the psychological impact of the Abu Ghraib prison photographs on American society.
Program
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30-9:40 Introduction and Welcoming Remarks - Andrea Walt, Ph.D., Chair, ECEC
and Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., President, PINC9:40-10:15 Stephen Soldz, Ph.D. - “Aid and Comfort for Torturers: Psychology
and Coercive Interrogations in Historical Perspective”10:15-10:50 Neil Altman, Ph.D. - “Psychodynamics: A Neglected Aspect
of the Discourse about Torture”10:50-11:05 Break
11:05-11:45 Ghislaine Boulanger, Ph.D. - “Violent Consequences and the Consequence
of Violence” - Introduction by Ruth Fallenbaum, Ph.D.11:45-12:15 Discussion
12:15-1:30 Lunch on site
1:30-1:40 Introduction to Psychoanalysts for Social Responsibility -
Section IX, Division of Psychoanalysis, APA - Rachael Peltz, Ph.D.1:40-2:15 Elissa Marder, Ph.D. - “On Psycho-Photography: Shame and Abu Ghraib”
2:30-3:05 Nancy Hollander, Ph.D. - “Living Danger: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
on Not Knowing What We Know”3:05-3:45 Round Table and Discussion with Audience -
Facilitators: Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D. and Karen Peoples, Ph. D.Neil Altman, Ph.D., is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University, a faculty member at PINC, and a co-editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is author of The Analyst in the Inner City and co-author of Relational Child Psychotherapy.
Ghislaine Boulanger, Ph. D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is a member of the supervisory and teaching faculty in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Her new book, Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma, was released by The Analytic Press in January, 2007.
Nancy Caro Hollander, Ph.D., is in private practice in Los Angeles. She is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University and a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of California. Her many publications include Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America, and she is a contributing author and co-editor of Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting.
Elissa Marder, Ph. D., is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University where she served as Director of the Emory Psychoanalytic Studies Program from 2001-2006. Her book Dead Time: Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) was published by Stanford University Press in 2001. She has published essays on topics in literary theory, feminism, film, psychoanalysis and photography.
Stephen Soldz, Ph.D., is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and researcher on the faculty of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He publishes social criticism on a number of websites, with an emphasis on psychological aspects of contemporary issues.
Laurel Heights Conference Room
3333 California Street, San Francisco
Registration and Information contact: John McGlothlin - (415) 922-4050
6 CE/CME CREDITS AVAILABLE
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