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Conferences / Call for Papers
July 2005
Cruse Bereavement Care
7th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society
12.-15.07.2005, King´s College, London, UK
We are pleased to announce that the 7th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society will be held on 12-15 July 2005 at Kingís College, London, UK.
This will be an ideal platform for specialists in bereavement to discuss and present their new research findings. It is also a unique opportunity to meet others from around the world and share experiences, knowledge and new results through a series of inspiring seminars and workshops. Whether you choose to attend for one day or the full four days, the International Conference will hold something for everyone who attends.
For the complete draft programme, speakers, booking form and rates, see
URL http://www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk/intlconf/index.htm
Cruse Bereavement Care
126 Sheen Road
Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1UR
UK
Phone +44 208 939 9552
Fax. +44 208 940 7638
Email sarah@crusebereavementcare.org.uk
URL http://www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk/intlconf/index.htm
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International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA)
44th IPA Conference: Trauma – New Developments in Psychoanalysis
28.-31.07.2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The final programme can be downloaded from here
URL http://www.ipa.org.uk/uploadedFiles/cms/store//Rio_Congress_2005/16_blank_files/
ATTACHMENTS/Final%20Programme%2014%20July%20FINAL%20FINAL.pdf
Further Information:
International Psychoanalytical Association
Broomhills, Woodside Lane,
London N12 8UD
United Kingdom
Phone: + 44 20 8446 8324
Fax: + 44 20 8445 4729
Email congress@ipa.org.uk
Émail (for general inquiries) ipa@ipa.org.uk
URL www.ipa.org.uk
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September 2005
12th Annual ASTSS Conference
The Impact of Childhood Trauma Across the Lifespan: Historical Denial--Current Challenges
15.-17.09.2005, Hyatt Regency, 99 Adelaide Terrace, East Perth WA 6004 Perth, Australia
Complete Programme
URL http://www.astss.org.au/conference/program.htm
URL http://www.astss.org.au/conference/index.htm
Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Convenor: Elizabeth Sachse
Suite 7 Chelsea Professional Center
145 Stirling Highway
Nedlands WA 6009
Email waconferenceorganiser@astss.org.au
URL http://www.astss.org.au/
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Arbeitsgemeinschaft für psychoanalytisch-systemische Forschung und Therapie
APF-Tagung 2005: Trauma und System. Interdisziplinärer Diskurs im Spannungsfeld zwischen klinischer Perspektive und gesellschaftlicher Normalität [in German]
16.-17.09.2005, KOMED-Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum, Köln
In den letzten Jahrzehnten beschäftigen sich Forschung und Lehre im psychosozialen Bereich zunehmend mit Fragen der Konzeptualisierung von Trauma und Traumatherapie. Dabei liegt der Akzent hauptsächlich auf der Betrachtung psychopathologischer Phänomene und den Möglichkeiten ihrer psychotherapeutischen Beeinflussung. Das Verständnis von Trauma hat jedoch eine über die psychopathologischen Phänomene weit hinausweisende Bedeutung. Die kulturellen und politischen Hintergründe der verschiedenen Gesellschaftsformen sind untrennbar mit der Geschichte ihrer individuellen und kollektiven Traumatisierungen verbunden.
Kern traumatischer Erfahrungen ist die Vernichtung von Bedeutung und die Zerstörung von sozialer Interaktion, innerhalb derer Bedeutung hergestellt wird. Trauma als soziale Erfahrung wird im Rahmen des klinischen Kontextes häufig als psychische Störung oder posttraumatische Belastungsstörung definiert. Somit werden innerhalb dieses Kontextes kulturelle und/oder politische Hintergründe traumatischer Erfahrungen als vermeintlich unverbunden neben diagnostizierten Krankheitsbildern begriffen. Die gesundheitlichen Probleme traumatisierter Menschen sind auf diese Weise aber nur zum Teil zu verstehen, da die Hauptursachen der beschriebenen Probleme oftmals sozio-politischer Natur sind. Deshalb müssen soziale, politische, kulturelle und genderspezifische Faktoren gleichermaßen in das diagnostische Verständnis psychischer Störungen einfließen.
Wirksame Gesundheitsförderung für traumatisierte Menschen ist nur möglich, wenn in interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit die Ressourcen und Copingfähigkeiten der Betroffenen erkannt und gestärkt werden. Dies bedingt eine neue Sichtweise auf die Probleme traumatisierter Menschen und zwar seitens der Behörden, der Öffentlichkeit sowie seitens der Institutionen der Gesundheitsversorgung.
Die seit einiger Zeit zu beobachtende interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit verschiedener Forschungs- und Therapieansätze im Bereich der Traumatherapie beeinflusst zunehmend die Weiterentwicklung der gesamten Psychotherapieforschung und ist somit eine zukunftsweisende Ressource für die Vertreter verschiedener Psychotherapierichtungen. Wir haben Referentinnen und Referenten zur Tagung eingeladen, die uns jeweils unterschiedliche Betrachtungsebenen vorstellen werden. Neben der klinischen Perspektive wird der Fokus auch auf historische, soziologische, sozialpsychologische, ethnologische sowie bindungstheoretische Aspekte gesetzt.
Wir freuen uns sehr, Ihnen verschiedene Vertreterinnen und Vertreter aus dem Feld der Traumaforschung vorstellen zu dürfen und Sie im September 2005 in Köln zu begrüßen.
APF-Vorbereitungsgruppe Dr. Beata Kühnhausen, Almut Lessenich, Vera Loos-Hilgert, Uta Meiß, Marlene Steuber
Das Programm der Tagung als html-Datei erhalten Sie hier
URL http://www.apf-koeln.de/tagung.htm
Als PDF-File hier:
URL http://www.apf-koeln.de/tagungsflyer.pdf
Kontakt:
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für psychoanalytisch-systemische Forschung und Therapie
Bonner Straße 49
50968 Köln
Phone +49 (221) 870 5859
Fax. +49 (221) 860 8585
Email info@apf-koeln.de
URL http://www.apf-koeln.de
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EMDRIA International Association
EMDRIA Conference 2005
16.-18.09.2005, Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers, Seattle, Washington, USA
URL www.emdria.org
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56. Jahrestagung DGPT
Störungen der Persönlichkeit [in German]
16.-18.9.2005, Inselhalle, Hotel Bayrischer Hof, Lindau
Das Programm der Tagung finden Sie hier
URL http://www.dgpt.de/dokumente/56%20Jahrestagung%20DGPT%20Programm.pdf
Auszug aus dem Programm:
Hauptvortrag
Manfred G. Schmidt, Köln
Traumatischer Prozess und Persönlichkeitsstörung. Verbindungen und Unterscheidungen.
Parallele Vorträge
Bertram von der Stein / Walter Schurig, beide Köln
Sozialpiraten und Parasiten oder Opfer früher Vernachlässigung und kumulativer Traumatisierung. Wege aus Verstrickungen mit Patienten mit dissozialen Tendenzen
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychoanalyse, Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Tiefenpsychologie e.V. (DGPT) e.V.
Johannisbollwerk 20
20459 Hamburg
Phone +49 (40) 319 26 19
Fax. +49 (40) 319 43 00
Email psa@dgpt.de
URL http://www.dgpt.de/
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Deutschsprachige Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie (DeGPT)
7. Jahrestagung der deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie [in German]
23.-25.09.2005, Klinik Schwedenstein, Dresden
URL www.degpt.de
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Zwei Fachtagungen der Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie des Carl-von-Basedow-Klinikums Merseburg
Therapeutische Interventionen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit posttraumatischen Störungen [in German]
30.09.2005, Carl-von-Basedow-Klinikum Merseburg, Deutschland
Akut traumatisierte Kinder und Jugendliche im Kontext der Jugendhilfe [in German]
17.02.2006, Carl-von-Basedow-Klinikum Merseburg, Deutschland
Das Programm beider Tagungen finden Sie hier:
URL http://www.klinikum-merseburg.de/pdf_daten/fachtagung.pdf
Kontakt:
Chefarzt Wolfgang Scheffler
Carl-von-Basedow-Klinikum Merseburg
Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie
Weinberg 8
06217 Merseburg
Phone +49 (3461) 27 48 10
fax. +49 (3461) 27 48 02
Email w.scheffler@klinikum-merseburg.de
URL http://www.klinikum-merseburg.de/
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October 2006
Conference of the Humanities Institute and the Human Rights Institute of the University of Connecticut
Humanitarian Responses to Narratives of Inflicted Suffering
13.-15.10.2006, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Conference Organizers: Richard D. Brown, Humanities Institute and Richard A. Wilson, Human Rights Institute
Call for Papers Deadline: 01.03.2006
Introduction
This international conference will analyze humanitarian responses to private and public narratives of politicized suffering that has been inflicted by states, private political groups and also by more structural causes such as apartheid, colonialism, and social conflict. The main themes of this conference are: first, to understand the character, form and voice of the narratives themselves; and second, to explain how and why some narratives of suffering become part of political movements of solidarity, whereas others do not. [Text continues on the website Ö]
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We invite scholars from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law to submit papers that analyze humanitarian responses to narratives of suffering inflicted by states, political groups and or social, economic, or cultural forces. Panels will address apartheid, genocide, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the media and the law.
Further information at: http://www.humanities.uconn.edu/
Please submit a one-page abstract and current c.v. (up to 3 pages) by March 1, 2006.
Professor Richard A. Wilson
Gladstein Chair of Human Rights
Director, Human Rights Institute
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
University of Connecticut
U-1205, Storrs, CT 06268
USA
Email Richard.wilson@uconn.edu
URL http://www.humanrights.uconn.edu/conf_2006.htm
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Calls for Contributions
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Lectures and Seminars
July 2005
International Trauma Studies Program, Summer Training Series 2005, Workshop I
Working with Trauma Survivors in the Context of War and Post Conflict
Challenges in Public and Community Mental Health Experiences from Africa
27.06.2005 , New York
Mental health interventions are slowly being integrated into humanitarian assistance to war and conflict zones. Most often, funds are allocated under the headline of "psychosocial." This workshop addresses working with trauma survivors within this context, the tools to make comprehensive needs and resource assessments, how to structure chaos, and how to develop over all strategies for such interventions with an emphasis on community and public health approaches - and to challenge an opening of the traditional mental health perception among donors, politicians and even professionals. Examples are drawn from the presenterís work in Africa over the last 5 years in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia. New research from the region shows that we may have to rethink our trauma intervention strategies especially in the developing countries. A dialogue with experiences from participants is encouraged.
Faculty
Soeren Buus Jensen, M.D., Ph.D
Specialist in Psychiatry, Senior Mental Health Advisor, World Health Organization, Co-Founder and Faculty of the International Trauma Studies Program
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International Trauma Studies Program, Summer Training Series 2005, Workshop II
Trauma and Creativity, Creative Imagination & Artistic Expression in the Process of Recovery from Trauma
14.-15.07.2005, New York
Human civilizations have always been faced with creatively responding to traumatic events in order to help individuals, families and communities cope with the emotional impact of trauma and loss. The creative imagination and the arts have always played an important role in the search for meaning and the struggle to recover agency after catastrophe.
This workshop will explore artistic modalities as important resources in promoting recovery from individual and collective trauma focusing on the following themes:
The psychosocial effects of trauma and stages of recovery;
Uses of creativity and artistic expression at particular stages in the recovery process: establishing safety, remembrance, mourning and reconnection;
Accessing and strengthening resilience through the arts;
Testimony: bearing witness to the past, and the responsibility of current intervention;
The role of creative imagination in the survivor's construction of a personal narrative and identity;
Cultural style of creative responses and the ethos of feeling in the recovery from trauma;
Creative expression in therapeutic work with families and groups.
Faculty
Melinda Meyer, R.N., M.A.
Director, Norwegian Institute for the Expressive Therapies, Researcher – Institute for Traumatic Stress, Oslo Norway
Jack Saul, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Director, International Trauma Studies Program , Director, Refuge: Refugee Community Resource Center
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International Trauma Studies Program, Summer Training Series 2005, Workshop III
Training of the Trainers of Trauma and Psychosocial Response – Part 1
29.-31.07.2005, New York
This course builds the skills of trainers who educate students in methods for treating people affected by traumatic events. Unique skills are necessary for trainers who are teaching students how to effectively provide clinical intervention in psychology, social work, counseling or psychiatry for people affected by traumatic events. This workshop is designed to:
Build the capacity of trainers to utilize participatory teaching methods;
Assist trainers to integrate theory and practice in their teaching;
Promote trainersí capacities to teach their students practical skills for how to do counseling, therapy or social work;
Classes will be participatory with students actively practicing skills.
This workshop will be presented in two (2) parts for a total of 6 days. Part 2 will be held 3 days in December 2005. Dates to be announced.
Faculty
Nancy Baron, Ed.D.
Director of International Training, International Trauma Studies Program; Director, Global Psycho-Social Initiatives (GPSI)
Please visit our website for more details on the workshops and for information on ITSP
Contact
Jack Saul, Ph.D., Director
International Trauma Studies Program
155 Avenue of the Americas, 4th Floor
New York, New York 10013
USA
Phone +1 (212) 691 6499
Fax +1 (212) 807 1809
Email info@itspnyc.org
URL www.itspnyc.org
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August 2005
St. Mary´s College of Maryland, USA, Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste, Berlin, Deutschland and Forum for Dialogue Among Nations in Gliwice, Polen
Confronting the Past as a Third Generation
05.-21.08.2005, Berlin, Krakow, Auschwitz
International Summer Program on the Holocaust
The International Summer program on the Holocaust (ISPH) is a unique tri-national educational opportunity to enable students to gain better understanding of the contemporary significance of the history and legacy of the Holocaust through participation in a two-week dialogue between American, German and Polish students of Jewish as well as non-Jewish origin.
Participants will meet in Berlin to begin exploration into the history of the Holocaust and its origins in Germany and will meet with scholars, community activists and members of the present-day Jewish community of Berlin. From Berlin, the group will travel to Krakow, Poland and to Auschwitz to explore an authentic site of Nazi genocide and to learn more in-depth about Polish-Jewish relations after the Holocaust and how Poland deals with its complicated past.
The program aims to allow the third and forth generation after the Shoah to study the impact of the Holocaust on their lives and communities, to reflect on their family/societal histories and on the intergenerational transmission of the trauma of genocidal events. By having participants spend two weeks together living in a variety of places and participating in an applied (rather than a merely cognitive) kind of learning, we want to create a learning situation that recognizes the factual as well as emotional and social aspects of learning. Connections between individual and collective memory can be explored through interactive learning in dialogue, leading to the challenge of dealing with differences between national and religious identities and making them relevant in everyday life.
For further information, please feel free to visit the website of Program or contact
Dr. Björn Krondorfer
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
USA
Phone +1 (240) 895-4219
Email bhkrondorfer@smcm.edu
URL http://www.smcm.edu/users/bhkrondorfer/ISPH.html
Dr. Constanze Jaiser
Fürbringerstr. 20 A
10961 Berlin
Phone +49 (30) 692 57 08
Email c.jaiser@web.de
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PsychoPolitical Peace Institute
The individual and the national collective psyche
29.08.-01.09.2005, Staefa, Schweiz
For all who need to experience and understand the larger context in which each individual is embedded and held, and the empowerment and influence of this context on the collective psyche.
In this four day seminar a new perspective will be introduced: the empowerment of each individual to influence and transform the collective patterns which determine present-day events in and around us. As an individual one has the choice to influence these events by unconsciously reinforcing old or to consciously participating in the creation of new, constructive ways of cooperation. Change can occur when each individual recognizes his or her power as a co-creator of mass events. To do so, one needs to become aware of and align with the unlimited individual and collective potential. One can choose to live one's inherent values of consciouness of joy, empowerment to choose, and choice, each day in the here and now, and thus install and reawaken new values that lead to a different quality of life.
* Psyche – soul and politae – community
How do we teach - using a transpersonal approach, experiential learning, meditation, movement, exercises, role-play, discussions and theory
Dates:
Fr 24 - Mo 27 February 2006
Mo 04 - Thu 07 September 2006
For further information about the program of the PsychoPolitical Peace Institute please visit the website.
Contact
Dr.Margret Rueffler
PsychoPolitical Peace Institute
Gehrenhof im Geren 5
CH 8712 Staefa
Schweiz
Phone +41 (44) 926 8182
Fax +41 (44) 926 8110
Email inst@pppi.net
URL www.pppi.net
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September 2005
PsychoPolitical Peace Institute
The psychological heritage and my potential
02.-05.09.2005, Staefa, Schweiz
A four day seminar for those wanting to change themselves and to support changes in the immediate and wider surroundings. The foundation is to become aware of, turn toward, and align with the unlimited potential within. This process will provide openness of the heart, and the strength and ability to look at one's own psychological heritage.
Through experiential means, an understanding of the patterns one lives in, in every day life, the patterns of one's mother, father and ancestors will emerge and the participants will recognize old inherited patterns and behaviours. One will now have a choice. By turning toward, honouring and appreciating, a release can take place and new spaces can open which will allow the participant to choose a different path to walk on, and realize his or her own potential to express more creatively. Old ties can be released, healing can occur, and this, in turn effects others.
* Psyche - soul and politae - community
How do we teach - using a transpersonal approach, experiential learning, meditation, exercises, movement, role-play, discussions and theory
Dates:
Tu 31.01 - Fr 03 February 2006
Mo 20 - Thu 23 February 2006
We 10 - Sa 13 May 2006
For further information about the program of the PsychoPolitical Peace Institute please visit the website.
Contact
Dr.Margret Rueffler
PsychoPolitical Peace Institute
Gehrenhof im Geren 5
CH 8712 Staefa
Schweiz
Phone +41 (44) 926 8182
Fax +41 (44) 926 8110
Email inst@pppi.net
URL www.pppi.net
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Dorothea Höck / Deutsche Sektion des IPPNW / Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung e.V. / AK Flüchtlinge/Asyl
Traumatisierte Flüchtlinge im Spannungsfeld zwischen Medizin und Recht und den Rahmenbedingungen des Asylverfahrens
Ein Gespräch zwischen Akteuren aus Medizin, Recht, Politik und Flüchtlingshilfe [in German]
09.-11.09.2005, Evangelische Akademie Thüringen, Zinzendorfhaus, Neudietendorf
Traumatisierte Flüchtlinge haben einen Anspruch auf ein gerechtes Asylverfahren. Dem steht im Wege, dass sie über Erlittenes nicht sprechen können und ihre Traumatisierung nicht erkannt wird. Rahmenbedingungen und Praxis im Asylverfahren erschweren oft eine angemessene Entscheidung. Die Tagung soll Politiker/innen, Jurist/innen und Heilberuflern ermöglichen, in diesem Spannungsfeld nach tragfähigen Lösungen zu suchen.
Dorothea Höck / Deutsche Sektion des IPPNW / Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung e.V. / AK Flüchtlinge/Asyl
Ort: Zinzendorfhaus, Neudietendorf
Kosten (Tagungsgebühr und Vollpension): 100 Euro, ermäßigt 60 Euro
Frühbucherrabatt bis zum 15. Juli 2005
Frau Julia Büchner
Tagungsassistenz
Evangelische Akademie Thüringen
Zinzendorfhaus
99192 Neudietendorf
Deutschland
Phone +49 (36202) 984-0
Fax. +49 (36202) 984-22
Email buechner@ev-akademie-thueringen.de
URL http://www.ev-akademie-thueringen.de
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LiteraturWerkstatt Berlin
Johannes Groschupf: Zu weit draußen. Buchpremiere [in German]
15.9.2005, 20:00 Uhr, LiteraturWerkstatt Berlin
In Lesung und Gespräch: Johannes Groschupf, Berlin
Moderation: Verena Auffermann, Literaturkritikerin, Berlin
"Ich hatte nicht den Eindruck, dass ich durchkam. Ich konnte atmen, mehr nicht. Das Leben ist ihnen noch einmal geschenkt worden, sagten sie, und ich nickte ratlos." Ein Mann überlebt einen Hubschrauberabsturz mit schweren Verbrennungen. Das Weiter-Leben ist ein Neubeginn, radikal stellt er Gewesenes in Frage. Vorsichtig tastet sich die Hauptfigur zurück in den Alltag. Praktische Arbeiten müssen bewältigt, Jobs angenommen, Kinder be- und gehütet, der Blick in den Spiegel ausgehalten werden. Auf der Suche nach seinem verlorenen Leben findet er ein anderes, neues. Oder ist dieses neue Leben lediglich ein Traum?
In ruhigem Fluss erzählt Johannes Groschupf seine Geschichte, und selten ist über Todes- und Lebenserfahrungen so intensiv und gelassen geschrieben worden.
Johannes Groschupf (*1963) studierte Germanistik und Publizistik in Berlin und arbeitete als Reisejournalist. Er überlebte 1994 einen Hubschrauberunfall mit schweren Verletzungen. Für sein Radio-Feature "Der Absturz" erhielt er 1999 den Robert-Geisendörfer-Preis.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Eichborn Verlages.
Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
Knaackstr. 97/Kulturbrauerei
10435 Berlin
Phone +49 (30) 485245-0
Fax. +49 (30) 485245-30
URL www.literaturwerkstatt.org
Email mail@literaturwerkstatt.org
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October 2005
El Grupo de Acción Comunitaria - Centro de Recursos en Salud Mental y Derechos Humanos y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid con el apoyo de Médicos Sin Fronteras
VII Diploma en Salud Mental en Situaciones de Violencia Política y Catástrofes (200 horas)
21.-23.10.2005, Madrid, Módulo I
Dicho Diploma se ha venido desarrollando con carácter estatal en Madrid, Bilbao y Barcelona.
Os solicitamos le deis la máxima difusión, entre aquellas personas o colectivos que pudieran estar interesadas.
Os recordamos que las plazas son limitadas y que la Pre-inscripción ya se encuentra abierta, adjuntamos la dirección de nuestra página web.
Contact:
Secretaría Técnica
Valeria Medina (GAC)
Plaza Mayor
Perales del Rio – Getafe
Madrid, 28040
España
Phone +34 (678) 34 76 80
Email gac.org@arrekis.es
URL www.psicosocial.net
Sede del Curso
Médicos del Mundo
C/Juan Montalvo pro 6
Madrid, 28040
España
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November 2005
PsychoPolitical Peace Institute
Common values - our inherent potential
01.-04.11.2005, Staefa, Schweiz
A four day seminar for individuals, international organisations and project directors, wanting to engage in an empowering approach working with other cultures at home and abroad, and support positive changes. It is designed for people wanting to combine the professional experience with their personal growth process. The prior visit of the seminars "The individual and the national collective psyche" is recommended.
This seminar offers participants a psychological perspective to become aware of their own motivation. In order to work in crisis situations and areas of tension to empower ethnic groups, honouring the Self is a basic attitude, one that manifests as appreciation and respect for cultures not one's own. This underlying attitude generates inner strength and allows practitioners to remain centered in post trauma, prevention of violence and crisis situations. It leads to making sensitive choices in such situations for self and for others and creates the opportunity for innovative solutions to emerge. The personal process catalysed during this work will be honored as well.
* psyche – soul and politae – action
Themes
What motivates me to work with other ethnic groups?
Recognizing one's own cultural attitude
Collective cultural patterns
My behaviour with members of other cultures at home
Living in other cultures
Turning toward myself
Honoring and appreciating self and others
Interconnectedness through common values
Seeing difference and uniqueness as wealth
Acceptance: the container for diversity
Empowerment
How do we teach - using a transpersonal approach, experiential learning, exercises, meditation, movement, role-play, discussions and theory
Dates:
Tu 01 - Fr 04 November 2005
Tu 14 - Fr 17 March 2006
Sa 09 - Tu 12 September 2006
For further information about the program of the PsychoPolitical Peace Institute please visit the website.
Contact
Dr.Margret Rueffler
PsychoPolitical Peace Institute
Gehrenhof im Geren 5
CH 8712 Staefa
Schweiz
Phone +41 (44) 926 8182
Fax +41 (44) 926 8110
Email inst@pppi.net
URL www.pppi.net
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PsychoPolitical Peace Institute
The prevention of collective violence
06.-09.11.2005, Staefa, Schweiz
A four day seminar for individuals, international organisations and project directors, wanting to engage in an empowering approach working with other cultures at home and abroad, and support positive changes. It is designed for people wanting to combine the professional experience with their personal growth process. The prior visit of the seminars "The individual and the collective psyche" is recommended.
In this seminar the participants can become aware of their own attitudes toward conflict-, fear- and violence-ridden situations. Participants are carefully acquainted with the techniques of attentively turning toward someone and are familiarised with the concept of acceptance. These tools enable practitioners to handle their own fears, aggression, and conflicts with a different attitude and from a different perspective. New skills will be experiential and will be practised within the participants' own environment. Applied to an ethnically tense conflict situation, the potential of energy contained within can be released and redirected into positive cooperation.
*Psyche – soul and politae – action
Themes
Becoming aware of my potential
Becoming aware of inner conflicts
Dealing with outer conflicts
Looking more deeply, beyond the field of conflict
Recognizing underlying patterns and mechanisms
Creating a space to "hold" conflicts
Conflict as potential energy and chance for growth
Transforming conflicts into cooperation
Fear as a tool of manipulation
When is our behaviour determined by fear?
Attending to and learning to accept our fears
How do we teach - using a transpersonal approach, experiential learning, exercises, meditation, movement, role-play, discussions and theory
Dates:
Su 06 - We 09 November 2005
Mo 15 - Thu 18 May 2006
For further information about the program of the PsychoPolitical Peace Institute please visit the website.
Contact
Dr.Margret Rueffler
PsychoPolitical Peace Institute
Gehrenhof im Geren 5
CH 8712 Staefa
Schweiz
Phone +41 (44) 926 8182
Fax +41 (44) 926 8110
Email inst@pppi.net
URL www.pppi.net
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PsychoPolitical Peace Institute
Project design and empowerment of groups
10.-13.11.2005, Staefa, Schweiz
A four day seminar for individuals, international organisations and project directors, wanting to engage in an empowering approach working with other cultures at home and abroad, and support positive changes. It is designed for people wanting to combine the professional experience with their personal growth process. The prior visit of three psychopolitical seminars is recommended.
In this seminar, Self-respect and learning to handle fear and conflicts, internal and external, are applied to facilitate groups and teams and are translated into designing and developing a project. Participants learn to allow other cultural- and multi-ethnic groups to choose their own design and to develop their own projects according to their individual needs and environment. This leads to a natural empowerment and responsibility. Self-esteem unfolds and inherent creative potential is catalysed as the joy of creativity through hands-on actions is awakened. This empowering approach to project design supports the prevention of violence and is warmly welcomed by people in post trauma, in crisis and in regions of tension.
* Psyche – soul and politae – action
Themes
From wielding power to empowering others
Leaderless leadership in group and teams
Modelling ethnic and multi-ethnic acceptance
Discovering group dynamics
The group as living container for emotions
Facilitating emotional processes in groups
Designing a group project
Catalysing the group potential
Problems as opportunities for growth
Initiating self-help groups
Facilitating projects through empowerment
How do we teach - using a transpersonal approach, experiential learning, exercises, meditation, movement, role-play, discussions and theory
Dates:
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JOURNAL
Psychiatry: interpersonal and biological processes ; a journal of the Washington School of Psychiatry. - New York, NY : Guilford Press, ISSN 0033-2747, Bd. 67 (2004), 4.
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Special Topic
Ursano, Robert J., "Editor´s Note", p. 211.
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Hollander, Penelope, "Cherchez la Femme, Cherchez la Femme. A Paradoxical Response to Trauma." pp. 212-216.
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This personal narrative is the author's account of early childhood trauma and its lingering effects experienced as a paradoxical response. What is later acknowledged (in the paper) as dissociation manifests itself throughout adolescence and adulthood as a fierce desire for attachment that permits no sense of relationship, "a many-times-distorted derivative of the unconscious libidinal wish-fulfillment, an ingeniously chosen piece of ambiguity with two meanings in complete mutual contradiction" (Freud 1917).
This paper raises the following questions: How is trauma internalized? How does the internalization of a traumatic event impact one's capacity for relationship, and one's ability to distinguish between and derive pleasure from real versus fantasy relationships? If women are intrinsically more relational than men, and sexual trauma can distort one's sense of attachment, what is the impact on a woman's growth and sexuality? How does a victim of such a trauma and the therapeutic relationship address and overcome the pain and damage caused by this kind of experience?
Commentaries
Shaw, Jon A., "The Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse". pp.217-221.
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Waugaman, Richard M., "Reality as an Inkblot: Looking at the Trauma Literature". pp. 222-230.
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Author (s) Affiliation : Faculty, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine; and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD.
Burton, Katherine B., "Resilience in the Face of Psychological Trauma". pp. 231-234.
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Author (s) Affiliation : Training and Supervising Analyst at Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. She is also on the Faculty of Modern Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program of Washington Psychoanalytic Society and Supervisor at George Washington University Center for Professional Psychology.
Putnam, Frank W., "Stuck in the Past". pp. 235-238.
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Fritsch, Richard C., Rajeev Warrier, "Commentary on a First-Person Account of Sexual Abuse: From Experience to Theory and Treatment", pp. 239-245.
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Author (s) Affiliation :
1. Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Center for Professional Psychology, The George Washington University.
2. Clinical Faculty, Center for Professional Psychology, The George Washington University.
Chefetz, Richard A., "The Paradox of "Detachment Disorders": Binding-Disruptions of Dissociative Process". pp. 246-255.
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Author (s) Affiliation : Private Practice; President, International Society for the Study of Dissociation (2002-2003).
This case is discussed in the contexts of affect theory, attachment theory, and dissociative experience. Dissociative adaptations to living that become entrenched resistances during psychotherapeutic inquiry give way to a scrupulous attention to the characteristics of dissociative experiencing. Somatosensory free association and appreciation of experiential aspects of depersonalization, derealization, and dissociative amnesia open new areas of negotiation between patient and therapist.
Paradigms from infant attachment and adult attachment research parsimoniously explicate psychodynamic formulations. "Conflicted interest" and "conflicted disinterest" are proposed to flesh out appreciation of the child's inner experience during Type A and Type C attachment experiences. The Type D attachment style is consistent with a dissociative phenotype. The concept of "isolated subjectivity" can help explain the extent to which individuals both know and don't know about their experience, in the same moment, and without conscious conflict or anxiety.
Loewenstein, Richard J., "Dissociation of the "Bad" Parent, Preservation of the "Good" Parent". pp. 256-260.
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Author (s) Affiliation : Medical Director, Trauma Disorders, at Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.
Reiss, Jo Ann, "A Search for Meaning". pp. 261-263.
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Author (s) Affiliation : Instructor, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
Articles
Janice L. Krupnick, PhD, Bonnie L. Green, PhD, Patricia Stockton, PhD, Lisa Goodman, PhD, Carole Corcoran, PhD and Rachel Petty, PhDpp., "Mental Health Effects of Adolescent Trauma Exposure in a Female College Sample: Exploring Differential Outcomes Based on Experiences of Unique Trauma Types and Dimensions". pp.264-279. [Ausdruck nur von Seite 264, abstract]
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Author (s) Affiliation :
1. Research Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, DC.
2. Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, DC.
3. Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, DC.
4. Associate Professor of Psychology, Boston College, Newton, MA.
5. Associate Professor of Psychology, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA.
6. Professor of Psychology, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC.
Most studies on the psychological impact of trauma exposure focus on the response to a single type of trauma, with little or no attention paid to the contribution of prior traumatic experiences. The goal of this study was to disentangle some of the confounding effects of multiple trauma exposures by exploring the unique contribution to mental health outcomes made by specific types and dimensions of trauma. This report compares the psychological outcomes of college women who experienced different types of trauma during adolescence, including traumatic bereavement, sexual assault, and physical assault. Young women who had experienced a single event of one of these types were compared with peers who had experienced multiple single events, ongoing sexual and/or physical abuse, as well as those who had experienced no trauma. Results, based on structured clinical interviews, and self-report measures showed that there were some significant differences in mental health outcomes based on trauma type. However, trauma exposure versus no exposure and the cumulative effects of exposure versus one-time experiences played the key roles in differentiating the groups.
Rivka Tuval-Mashiach, Ph.D, Sara Freedman, MSc, Neta Bargai, MA, Rut Boker, MA, Hilit Hadar, MA and Arieh Y. Shalev, MD, "Coping with Trauma: Narrative and Cognitive Perspectives". pp. 280-293.
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Author (s) Affiliation :
1.-6.: The Center for Traumatic Stress, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
The immediate period following a traumatic event is a crucial time in the survivors' process of recovery. During this time, a narrative of the trauma is generated and constructed, alongside a process of cognitive processing of the traumatic events. In the first part of the article we present the outlines of the narrative and cognitive attitudes to trauma; the second part will illustrate the developmental process through which the trauma narrative is shaped, in the stories of five survivors of a terror attack. We suggest that by analyzing three main components of the trauma narrative (coherence, finding meaning and self-evaluation), together with the equivalent cognitive attitudes, it is possible to evaluate the process of recovery, identify foci of difficulties in this process and pinpoint possible therapeutic interventions in the early stages after the trauma.
Rif S. El-Mallakh, MD, Tina James, MD, Tehmina Khan, MD, Marina Katz, MD, Bethany McGovern, MD, Sunil Nair, MD, Scott Tallent, MD and Gregory Williams, DO, "Follow-Up after Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization with Partial Control of the System Responsiveness Variable". pp. 294-298.
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Author (s) Affiliation :
1.-8.: The Mood Disorders Research Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40291.
One of the most significant predictors of prompt rehospitalization following psychiatric hospital discharge is missing follow-up out-patient appointments. Previous studies have suggested that system responsiveness accounted for much of the variance in predicting compliance with aftercare. Collaborations established at our institution allowed us to partially control this variable, opening the way to explore other obstacles to aftercare. All severely mentally ill subjects discharged from our hospital are provided follow-up appointments within two weeks. We retrospectively evaluated compliance with aftercare appointment and investigated factors that were associated with compliance. Eighty-one subjects were evaluated. Twenty-seven (33.8 %) did not attend their first follow-up appointment. Subjects with a primary substance-related syndrome were the most likely to miss their appointment (83.3%, χ2 = 17.02, p = .0045), as were uninsured patients (51.6%, χ2 = 8.79, p = .003). There was a trend for individuals not previously involved with their aftercare providers to miss their appointment (48.9%, χ2 = 3.35, p = .067). Despite partial control of the system responsiveness variable, compliance with aftercare was suboptimal. This was due to a combination of client vulnerability variables and uncontrollable system responsiveness factors.
Book Essays and Reviews
ELIZABETH LUNBECK and BENNETT SIMON, EDS. Family Romance, Family Secrets. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 333 pp. $45.00
Reviewed by RICHARD M. WAUGAMAN, pp.
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Schapperer, Johannes, Das PTSD-Konzept bei Patienten mit automatischem implantierten Kardioverter-Defibrillator (AICD) : psychophysiologische Parameter zur Evaluation eines Maladaptionssyndroms. Dissertation: Fakultät für Medizin , Technische Universität München, 2004.
URL http://tumb1.biblio.tu-muenchen.de/publ/diss/me/2004/schapperer.pdf
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Wingenfeld, Katja, Eine Untersuchung der endokrinen und psychologischen Veränderungen bei PTSD und stressabhängigen körperlichen Beschwerden. Dissertation: Universität Trier, Fachbereich 1, 2003.
URL http://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/volltexte/2004/235/pdf/20031219.pdf
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A new issue of French Studies has been made available: "Memory and Innovation in the Post-Holocaust Generation in France": January 2005; Vol. 59, No. 1.
URL of table of contents http://fs.oupjournals.org/content/vol59/issue1/index.dtl?etoc
Memory and Innovation in Post-Holocaust France
Victoria Best (St. John´s College, Cambridge), and Kathryn Robson (University of Newcastle) In: French Studies, Jan. 2005, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 1-8 (Editorial)
This special issue explores different representations of cultural memory in France since the Holocaust, a period overshadowed by historical trauma (wars, decolonization, genocide), in which memory has become an increasingly dominant cultural obsession. Contested representations of cultural memory have given rise to important critical and philosophical debates, which pivot on the relation between memory and history, the individual and the collective. Covering a broad range of spheres including literature, cultural history and theory, psychoanalysis and film, the essays collected here draw on and contribute to these critical debates in analyses that seek to rethink the relation between memory and representation.
Where recent critical work on cultural memory has tended to emphasize its failures and frustrations, these essays highlight a different model of memory as innovation and creative representation. Central to all the essays is the idea that memories are constructed and mediated via specific culturally constructed frames, within which individual memory is irrevocably and sometimes troublingly bound up with collective modes of remembering. Yet the representations of memory examined here show how memory can work productively in and through tensions such as the relation between the individual and the collective without trying to overcome them: these tensions remain as crucial elements in the quest to find new forms of representation of memory.
URL of abstract http://fs.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/1/1
URL of article http://fs.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/59/1/1
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Rainer Huhle
Menschenrechtspädagogik an einem Erinnerungsort des Nationalsozialismus. Ein Beispiel aus Nürnberg.
Vortrag auf der 37. Tagung Gedenkstättenpädagogik in Weimar, Mai 2002 [in German]
URL http://www.menschenrechte.org/beitraege/bildung/beitBIL001.htm
The Teaching of Human Rights in a Place of Remembrance of National Socialism - An Example from Nuremberg [in English]
URL http://www.menschenrechte.org/beitraege/bildung/beitBIL003.htm
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Rainer Huhle
Kindersoldaten
Unzureichende internationale Bestimmungen, Ansätze zur Eindämmung, und die spezielle Situation in Kolumbien [in German]
URL http://www.menschenrechte.org/beitraege/lateinamerika/kinder.htm
Menschenrechte gelten auch für Kinder
Als besonders wehrloser Teil der Menschheit stehen sie darüber hinaus in allen Gesellschaften unter besonderem Schutz. Im internationalen Menschenrechtssystem formuliert diesen besonderen Schutz die UN-Konvention über die Rechte des Kindes. Gleichwohl werden Kinder nach wie vor zu Millionen missbraucht - zur Prostitution, zu Sklavenarbeit, zum Krieg.
Rainer Huhle stellt in diesem Artikel die Situation von Kindern im Krieg und die Bemühungen vor, gegen den Einsatz von Kindersoldaten vorzugehen. Nach einem generellen Überblick geht er besonders auf die Situation in Kolumbien ein.
Rainer Huhle
Nürnberger Menschenrechtszentrum
Adlerstraße 40
90403 Nürnberg
Deutschland
Phone +49 (911) 230 55 50
Fax. +49 (911) 230 55 51
Email rainer.huhle@menschenrechte.org
URL http://www.menschenrechte.org
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Il'ya Kukulin
The Regulation of Pain. The Great Patriotic War in Russian literature from the 1940s to the 1970s
URL http://www.eurozine.com/article/2005-05-06-kukulin-en.html
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Translation into English by Mischa Gabowitsch
Soviet writers' expression of existential insecurity caused by their experiences in World War II signalled a liberation from the censorship of the 1930s. But the Brezhnev regime put an end to that. Only since the 1990s have Russian writers been able to explore openly the subject of war.
Schmerzregulierung. Zur Traumaverarbeitung in der sowjetischen Kriegsliteratur
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Translation into German by Christian Hufen and Volker Weichsel.
In: Osteuropa 4-6, 2005, S.235-256.
First published by Neprikosnovennij Zapas 40 (Russian version)
URL http://www.eurozine.com/article/2005-05-03-kukulin-ru.html
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JOURNAL
Group Analysis: Groups and Traumas. 1 June 2005; Vol. 38, No. 2.
URL http://gaq.sagepub.com/content/vol38/issue2/?etoc
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Publications from Trauma Research Net Members
Forschungsprojekt der Abteilung "Klinische Psychologie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie", Universität Trier, Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Maercker
Heike Froehling
Geteiltes Leid ist halbes Leid? Promotionsvorhabens zur Erforschung der Auswirkungen traumatischer Erlebnisse und deren Verarbeitung auf die Partnerschaft [in German]
Die Abteilung für "Klinische Psychologie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie" der Universität Trier befasst sich intensiv mit den Auswirkungen traumatischer Erlebnisse. Insbesondere der Faktor Partnerschaft und die resultierenden Bewältigungsstrategien, aber auch die psychologische Genesung und das Wachsen an einem Schicksalsschlag sind Gegenstand unserer Untersuchungen.
Die Studie befasst sich mit der partnerschaftlichen Bewältigung, der Begleitung einer traumatisierten Person durch seine/ihren Lebenspartner/in und posttraumatischer Reifung. Von besonderem Interesse sind hierbei folgende Fragen:
Kommt es zu einer Neuorganisation des Lebens nach einem Trauma?
Welche Auswirkungen hat dies auf die Partnerschaft, wie gehen die Partner mit dieser Anforderung um?
Welche Strategien der Bewältigung wählen die Partner?
Und wie kann der Partner die psychologische Genesung und das Wachsen an einer traumatischen Erfahrung begleiten und unterstützen?
Um mögliche Veränderungen in einer Partnerschaft nach einer traumatischen Erfahrung erfassen zu können, führen wir u.a. eine Fragebogenstudie durch. Das Ausfüllen der Fragebögen dauert in der Regel ca. 20 Minuten.
Den internetbasierten Fragebogen finden Sie unter
URL http://urts20.uni-trier.de/fb1/trauma
Die Daten, die im Rahmen dieser Studie erhoben werden, werden ausschließlich zu wissenschaftlichen Zwecken verwendet. Die Befragung findet im Rahmen eines Promotionsvorhabens zur Erforschung der Auswirkungen traumatischer Erlebnisse und deren Verarbeitung auf die Partnerschaft statt.
Dipl.-Psych. Heike Froehling
Fachbereich I – Psychologie
Abteilung für Klinische Psychologie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie
54286 Trier
Deutschland
Phone +49 651 201 2894
Fax. +49 651 201 2886
Email froehlin@uni-trier.de
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Frederik van Gelder
Trauma und Gesellschaft - Debatte über Trauma und Kriegsfolgen in den Niederlanden und in Deutschland
URL http://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/people/van_gelder/d_trauma.html
In: Forschung Frankfurt - Wissenschaftsmagazin der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Nr. 4, 1998. Niederländische Übersetzung: "Trauma en maatschappij - Het debat in Nederland en Duitsland over de psychische effecten van de oorlog", in: ICODO-Info, Heft 1/2-99, Juli 1999, S. 61-72.
Frederik van Gelder
URL http://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/people/van_gelder/index.htm
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Manasi Kumar (Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, Delhi, India)
Freud and narcissism: Developing links for inclusion of the 'object'
In: International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Volume 14, Number 2 / June 2005, pp. 86 - 93.
URL of abstract: http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=p740t25652h52542
Abstract:
The problematic of narcissism in the way Freud visualized forces us to acknowledge the dualism of drives inside the subject; the object relations theory then builds up on the inherent need and the structuring potential of the object. The paper traces the growth of this concept in Freud's thinking in a bid to show how the object's otherness is not fully metabolized within the Freudian corpus. On the other hand, recent criticisms of object relations theory point to the perfunctory role ascribed to Freud's most radical discovery of the dualism of drives. Winnicott, Laplanche and Green have all developed theories that have provided pertinent rejoinders to the problematic of narcissism and object relations. The paper discusses how deconstructing and "going back over Freud" helps us to redefine object relations and give the drive functioning due importance. Hence the main thesis of the paper – that of narcissism – reveals the decentered subject's tussle with itself and with the alienness emanating from the object's otherness. If used creatively, ideas such as "otherness", "objectalizing function" and Green's conceptualization of the clinical significance of negative and positive narcissism then seek to enrich the theorization on narcissism.
Keywords:
narcissism, object usage, otherness, coupled drive–object relation, fort da, Green, Winnicott
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