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CONTRIBUTING PANELIST DR ALLAN SHAFER, clinical psychologist, D Litt et Phil, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in Melbourne and a socioanalytic organisation consultant and group relations consultant.

He is a member of the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and past President of Group Relations Australia. Allan has directed or consulted on the staff of Tavistock-style group relations conferences in Australia, the UK, India, China, Israel and Poland and has a particular interest in the dynamics of social systems.

Christine Hill (AAGP, PPAA) Roslyn Glickfeld (APAS) Maryana Podreka (AAGP)

TURBULENT TIMES: Populism and the attack on knowledge elites psychoanalytic and political science perspectives

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FREUD CONFERENCE BLOG Between now and the conference, we will be posting articles and media relevant to the conference as they arise. The blog allows you to engage in the conversation by posting comments or a reply: we look forward to your input.

The Freud Conference blog also provides detailed CVs and publication lists of the speakers, with links to their publications and sources. http://freudconference.wordpress.com

E A R LY B I R D R EG I S T R AT I O N cut-off date: Wednesday March 28, 2018

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8.30 – 18.00 Saturday 26th May The Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building 30 Royal Parade, Parkville

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09.00– 9.10

16/01/18 1:07 PM

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Populism and the attack on knowledge elites psychoanalytic and political science perspectives

12.45 – 14.00

Lunch

MORNING SESSIONS

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

09.15 – 10.45 Chair: Ms Roslyn Webb MR PHIL STOKOE WHERE HAVE ALL THE ADULTS GONE? This paper draws upon psychoanalytic ideas, particularly those developed through the study of groups and organizations, to develop a model for understanding the apparently xenophobic and nationalistic behaviour of large numbers of voters in first world democracies across the globe.

This will involve analyzing the fallacies of the free market philosophy.

14.00 – 15.30 Chair: Dr Peter Smith MR PHIL STOKOE THINKING IN THE FUNDAMENTALIST STATE OF MIND A common statement that Kleinian psychoanalysts make about the paranoid schizoid state of mind is that thinking is hated and certainty is preferred. Phil will argue that this state of mind is exactly the one that operates in fundamentalism. He will try to show, in more detail, how processes that appear to be thinking can take place in this state of mind and yet conform to that statement about hatred of thinking and admiration for certainty.

10.45 – 11.15

Morning tea

11.15 – 12.45 Chair: Dr John Boots DR RICHARD CHAUVEL NATURE OR NURTURE: DO OUR RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC SENTIMENTS SIMPLY MIRROR THE TRUMP AND BREXIT PHENOMENON? This paper will examine whether the strength of anti-immigrant sentiments, as evidenced in the revival in the electoral fortunes of Pauline Hanson and continued support for successive Australian governments’ incarceration of asylum seekers, can be compared with the xenophobic and nationalist sentiments that produced President Trump and the Brexit decision. The paper will address these issues from political and historical perspectives, and will consider whether these sentiments are also responses to Australia’s rapidly changing strategic environment.

2018

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Registration & Coffee/Tea Introduction and Welcome: Dr Christine Hill

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15.30 – 15.50

Phil worked as a Consultant Social Worker and Senior Lecturer in the Adult Department of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust from 1994 to 2012 finishing as Clinical Director. He writes and teaches on a wide range of topics including Psychoanalytic understanding of society and politics. Phil is also a regular contributor on David Morgan’s Political Mind radio/podcast.

Afternoon break

15.50 – 17.00 Chair: Dr Rob Gordon PANEL DISCUSSION Mr Phil Stokoe and Dr Richard Chauvel will be joined by Dr Allan Shafer to discuss, and then lead, an open forum on issues raised from all three presentations.

17.00 – 18.00

MR PHIL STOKOE is a Psychoanalyst, Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Training Analyst with the British Psychotherapy Foundation and in private practice working with adults and couples, and an Organisational Consultant, providing consultation to a wide range of organisations.

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DR RICHARD CHAUVEL is an honorary fellow at the Asia Institute, the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining the Asia Institute, he had taught at the Universities of Indonesia and Sydney as well as Victoria University.

Richard’s research has focused on political and social change in eastern Indonesia, particularly in Maluku and Papua, together with Australia-Indonesia relations.

At the University of Indonesia, he taught Australian History and Politics, 1987-1992. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Richard also has an extensive list of publications which are linked on the blog.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

MR PHIL STOKOE, London • WHERE HAVE ALL THE ADULTS GONE? • THINKING IN THE FUNDAMENTALIST STATE OF MIND

DR RICHARD CHAUVEL, Melbourne • NATURE OR NURTURE: DO OUR RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC SENTIMENTS SIMPLY MIRROR THE TRUMP AND BREXIT PHENOMENON?

8.30 – 18.00 Saturday 26th May The Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building 30 Royal Parade, Parkville

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE Christine Hill, Roslyn Glickfeld, Maryana Podreka, Gurli Hughes, Damien Pierce SUPPORTED BY • Australian Association of Group Psychotherapists • Australian Psychoanalytical Society • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association

E A RLY BIRD REGIS T R AT ION cut-off date: Wednesday March 22, 2017

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8.30 – 18.00 Saturday 20th May The Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building 30 Royal Parade, Parkville

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09.00– 9.10

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2017

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Registration & Coffee/Tea

Introduction and Welcome: Dr Christine Hill

12.45 – 14.00

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Lunch

MORNING SESSIONS

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

09.10 – 10.45

14.00 – 15.30

Chair: A/Prof Frances Thomson-Salo

PROF ALESSANDRA LEMMA (via videolink) THE BLACK MIRROR: Body, Technology, Sexuality In this paper Alessandra reflects on the role of the body in the construction and disruption of identity coherence as it interacts with new technologies.

It will illustrate some of the challenges we face in contemporary culture with respect to the development of sexual identity during adolescence.

She argues that instead of becoming free-floating entities in cyberspace, the body and its unconscious identifications, as they manifest in our conscious relationship to our sexuality, remains a psychically organising principle, even when the body is effectively disintermediated in cyberspace.

10.45 – 11.15

Morning tea

11.15 – 12.45

Chair: Dr Peter Smith

DR HEATHER WOOD THE UNCONSCIOUS ALLURE OF INTERNET SEX The widespread use of internet pornography has led to concern about its impact on the sexual development of young people, and revived interest in sexuality in psychoanalytic practice. This new phenomenon is both very public and intensely private, relating to an individual’s sexual fantasy, and the use made of sexuality and sexualisation within the psyche. This paper will explore ways in which internet pornography can be used to enact internal dramas and meet unconscious needs, and the implications of this for psychoanalytic clinical practice and wider social policy.

Chair: Dr Rob Gordon

DR HEATHER WOOD PAEDOPHILIA, OR PAEDOPHILIC BREAKDOWN? THE IMPETUS TO SEEK ILLEGAL IMAGES ONLINE People drawn to illegal images of children may never have had explicit sexual interest prior to accessing internet pornography. Both mainstream and psychoanalytic theories have tended to take the view that someone either does or does not have paedophilia. The behaviour we observe on the internet requires a reconsideration of existing notions of paedophilia, in order to explain how the use of internet sex might act as a catalyst, facilitating explicit paedophilic sexual interests. This paper will link recent findings from empirical research with case illustrations from psychoanalytic practice, to explore some of the processes in operation, and will consider the implications for penal policy.

15.30 – 15.50 Afternoon break 15.50 – 17.00 Chair: Dr John McClean OPEN FORUM: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TECHNOLOGY “WHERE FROM. . . . . . WHERE TO. . . . . . ?”

17.00 – 18.00

2017

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DR ALESSANDRA LEMMA is Professor of Psychological Therapies at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust and School of Health & Human Sciences, Essex University; a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society; and Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, UCL, where she is also Clinical Director of the Psychological Interventions Research Centre. She is Visiting Professor, Instituto Winnicott, Sapienza University of Rome and “Centro Winnicott”, Rome. Alessandra is the Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis book series (Routledge) and a Regional Editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has published extensively on psychoanalysis, the body and trauma.

DR HEATHER WOOD is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Consultant Adult Psychotherapist & Clinical Psychologist, the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. While working at the Clinic which provides state funded psychoanalytic psychotherapy to people with problems of criminality, violence, and compulsive sexual behaviours, she has developed a special interest in the problematic use of internet pornography and the related subject of paedophilia. Heather has published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and British Journal of Psychotherapy, was co-editor of Bower, Hale and Wood (2013) Addictive States of Mind, and has contributed to a number of edited collections including Lemma and Caparotta (2014) Psychoanalysis in the Technoculture Era, and Lemma and Lynch (2015) Sexualities.

She also works in private practice in London.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

PROF ALESSANDRA LEMMA UK (via video-link) The Black Mirror: Body, Technology, Sexuality DR HEATHER WOOD UK

Saturday 20th May

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A psychoanalytical consideration of corruption, feminism and exclusion

ORGANISING COMMIT TEE Christine Hill, Ros Glickfeld, Maryana Podreka, Gurli Hughes, Damien Pierce S U P P O R T E D B Y • Australian Association of Group Psychotherapists • Australian Psychoanalytical Society • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia

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8.30 – 17.00 Saturday 21st May The Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building 30 Royal Parade, Parkville

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A psychoanalytical consideration of corruption, feminism and exclusion

a day with

Dr David Morgan Dr Ruth McCall Saturday 21st May

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GUEST PA NELLIST

RELIGION FANATICISM & TRAUMA

DR RON SPIELMAN is a Sydney psychiatrist and Training Analyst of the Sydney Branch of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, of which he has been a member for 30 years.

Roots, Impact & Aftermath

The 2015 conference will also showcase the work of Martin Leuders, conflict photographer, who died in 2014. A fearless and talented photojournalist, Marty documented the trauma of global conflict for over twenty years, and gave the world real insight into the consequences and aftermath of human conflict in war zones.

FREUD CONFERENCE BLOG Between now and the conference, we will be posting articles and media relevant to the conference as they arise. The blog allows you to engage in the conversation by posting comments or a reply: we look forward to your input. http://freudconference.wordpress.com

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Drs Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber & Werner Bohleber 8.30 – 17.00 Saturday 16th May The Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building 30 Royal Parade, Parkville

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FREUD CONFERENCE

2015

08.30 09.00

Registration & Coffee Welcome: Dr Christine Hill

09.10 – 10.45

Chair: Mrs Helga Coulter

DR WERNER BOHLEBER RADICALIZED RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM

C A N C E L L AT I O N P O L I C Y

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RELIGION, FANATICISM & TRAUMA Roots, Impact & Aftermath

12.45 – 14.00

14.00 – 15.30

Lunch

Chair: Dr Timothy Keogh

PROF DR MARIANNE LEUZINGER-BOHLEBER

- IDENTIFICATION WITH AN IDEAL OBJECT AND DESTRUCTIVENESS

PSYCHOANALYTIC PROJECTS ON PREVENTION - WORKING WITH MIGRANT FAMILIES

Radicalisation of fundamentalistic thinking can be found in several cultures and religions. The dark and destructive side of this phenomenon challenges psychoanalysis to explain how religious certainty, as a narcissistic fantasy of an identification with an ideal object/ideal state, leads to violent acts and states of mind that intermingle and mutually reinforce one another on the psychological plane. These significant relations will be discussed.

Psychoanalytic conceptualizations have pronounced the role of unconscious fantasies for the radicalization of fundamentalistic thinking.

Therefore early parenting and the development of good object relations is relevant in preventing the development of fundamentalist thinking.

10.45 – 11.15

Morning tea

11.15 – 12.45

Chair: Dr Christine Hill

DRS MARIANNE LEUZINGER-BOHLEBER & WERNER BOHLEBER PROCESSES OF POLITICAL RADICALIZATION

SAMPLES

IN LATE ADOLESCENCE - SOME CASE

Many of the Islamic suicide bombers went through a process of self-radicalization in late adolescence leading to an identification with radical political ideologies. It is a destructive solution of a deep crisis in late adolescent development. We will describe these processes and provide some case examples.

In this presentation two large empirical prevention studies for ‘children at risk’ in the Kindergarden (the so-called EVA project) and during the first three years of life (First Steps) will be discussed.

The presentation will focus on children from traumatized migrant and refugee families.

15.30 – 16.00

Afternoon break

16.00 – 17.00

Chair: Eve Steel

PANEL DISCUSSION

with Drs Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Werner Bohleber, and Ron Spielman.

17.00 – 18.00

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS PROF DR MARIANNE LEUZINGER-BOHLEBER is a training analyst in the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) and a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. She is a Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel and Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt/Main.

Marianne has published widely in her main research fields, amongst them methods of clinical and empirical research in psychoanalysis, educational science and modern German literature.

DR WERNER BOHLEBER is a former President of the DPV and is a training analyst and editor of the German psychoanalytical Journal Psyche. In 2007 he received the prestigious Mary S. Sigourney Award which recognizes widely and is the author of several books. His main area of interest is trauma, both in the individual and wider social sense: terrorism, xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism, right-wing extremism, and the trans-generational consequences of the Nazi period in Germany.n For fully detailed biographies and CV’s, please go to: http://freudconference.wordpress.com

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RELIGION FANATICISM & TRAUMA Roots, Impact & Aftermath

a day with

Dr Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber Dr Werner Bohleber Saturday 16th May The Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building 30 Royal Pde, Parkville

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a day with Drs Domenico Di Ceglie & Giovanna Rita Di Ceglie

The 2014 conference examines the psychoanalytic and developmental understanding, and psychosocial impact, of Transsexualism and Atypical Gender Identity Development.

Between now and the conference we will be posting articles and media on transgender issues as they arise, and Domenico and Giovanna will post viewpoint.

The best attribute of the blog is its ability for you to post a reply, and we welcome your input.

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8.30 – 17.00 Saturday 17th May The Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building, 30 Royal Parade,

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08.30 09.00

2014

Registration & Coffee Welcome: Dr Christine Hill

MORNING SESSIONS: 09.10 – 10.45 Chair: Mrs Helga Coulter DR DOMENICO DI CEGLIE THE USE OF METAPHORS IN UNDERSTANDING ATYPICAL GENDER IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT AND ITS PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPACT Over the years Domenico has found a number of metaphors which have helped him deal with particular dynamics in therapeutic work with young people with gender dysphoria, and with group and institutional conflicts involving the Gender Identity Development Service. In this presentation he describes those metaphors which relate to particular problems or conflicts stimulated in his mind, and how they are linked to the vicissitude of identity development, in particular that of atypical gender identity, and issues regarding symbolisation or symbolic thinking. He will use clinical material, observation, and DVD clips to illustrate his points.

10.45 – 11.15 11.15 – 12.45

Morning tea Chair: Mrs Maria Teresa ooke

DR GIOVANNA DI CEGLIE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE BODY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYMBOLIC THINKING This paper explores the importance of viewing mental representations of the body as having structural and functional characteristics.

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ain mystranger own body structural and functional representations in the development of symbolic thinking. Clinical material will demonstrate how the body can be subjected to a variety of processes including splitting, equations and linking the structure of one organ with the function of a different one. Finally, the paper suggests that the emergence of symbolic thinking has increased understanding of a number of psychological conditions, the expanding of artistic endeavours and the development of new identities, including atypical gender identities.

12.45 – 14.00

Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 14.00 – 15.30 Chair: Dr Christine Hill DOCUMENTARY FILM A film will be shown which illustrates issues involved in the transition from infancy to puberty in transgender children, as presented during the papers. This will be followed by discussion led

by Dr Domenico Di Ceglie and Dr Campbell Paul, Professor of Infant Psychiatry, RCH, Melbourne, and a specialist working locally with transgender children and families.

15.30 – 16.00

Afternoon break

16.00 – 17.00 Chair: Dr Frances Thomson-Salo Panel discussion with Drs Domenico and Giovanna Di Ceglie, and Dr Campbell Paul 17.00 – 18.00

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about the speakers DR DOMENICO DI CEGLIE, M.D. Dip. Psychiat (It), FRCPysch, is Director of Training, Development and Research, Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, a service which he founded, 1989.

He is also Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London; Honorary Senior Lecturer, The Royal Free and University College Medical School, London; Visiting Professor in Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Perugia, Italy (1992-1996); and Member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists.

Domenico has published numerous papers, and edited a book “A Stranger in My Own Body – Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health” (Karnac Books, London). He was highly commended in the Health & Social Care Awards, 2004, and gives frequent lectures in the UK and abroad.

DR GIOVANNA DI CEGLIE, is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She trained in Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Perugia (Italy) and worked in the NHS both in adult and child psychiatry.

She currently works in private psychoanalytic practice, teaches and supervises.

Giovanna has a longstanding interest in the development of thinking and its disturbances. She has published numerous papers on clinical work and in the area of symbolization, and regularly lectures in the UK and

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Dr Domenico Di Ceglie, UK Dr Giovanna Rita Di Ceglie, UK Saturday 17th May

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the centre cannot hold

Saturday 19th May The Treacy Centre 126 The Avenue, Parkville, Melbourne 8.30 – 17.00

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Dr Carine Minne, UK Dr Elyn Saks, USA (via satellite) Mr Neville Symington, Australia O R G A N I S E D BY R E P R E S E N TAT I V E S O F

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MORNING SESSIONS: 0900 – 10.30 Dr CARINE MINNE INFANTICIDE, MATRICIDE OR SUICIDE? TOWARD A PSYCHOANALYTIC UNDERSTANDING OF A KILLING

This paper will focus on the psychoanalytic treatment, in a high security hospital over many years, of a young female patient who killed her baby. Legally considered as a case of infanticide, psychoanalytically it can be understood as the killing of the mother, or of the self. I present a theoretical understanding of the mental state shifts from more psychotic functioning to a more personality disordered presentation, with momentary glimpses of sanity. The necessity for regular psychoanalytically informed communications to members of the multidisciplinary teams will be raised.

10.30 – 11.00

Morning tea

11.00 – 12.30 Dr ELYN SAKS (via satellite) MY JOURNEY THROUGH MADNESS Diagnosed with schizophrenia at an early age, Elyn will tell the story of her life-long struggles with this severe mental illness. Given “very poor” and “grave” prognoses she was not expected to live independently, let alone to work. Yet today she lives a rich, full, and productive life with a great professional career, many friends, and a loving husband. Elyn will punctuate her narrative with passages from her book, “The Center Cannot Hold.” In conclusion, she will draw some policy implications from her story, recognizing she is an “n” of only one.

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch AFTERNOON SESSION: (includes Afternoon Tea) 14.00 – 15.30 Dr CARINE MINNE VIOLENCE TO BODY AND MIND: TREATING PATIENTS WHO HAVE KILLED

I present the long-term psychoanalytic treatments of two young male patients in a high security hospital - one a case of matricide and the other the killing of a complete stranger. While part of the overall treatment plan, the analyses continued on transfer to medium security and back into the community. Structural changes, which can emerge in such long-term continuous treatments, are described and illustrated clinically. The traumatic effect of ‘improvement’ is emphasized, as is the risk of further enactment, which can trigger considerable anxiety in those involved in the care of these patients. Regular psychoanalytic consultations to the clinical team members are again emphasized as necessary ‘immunization’ against the contagiousness of such mental disorders in prison settings.

15.30 – 16.00 Afternoon tea 16.00 – 17.00 Panel discussion with Dr Carine Minne and Mr Neville Symington

17.00 – 18.00 Nibbles and drinks Readings Bookstore will be at the Conference

DR CARINE MINNE, UK is a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytic Society, and Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic and Broadmoor High Security Hospital, West London.

As the first UK dual trained psychiatrist in forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy, she is now Training Program Director in North/West London for the amalgamated dual higher psychiatric training in forensic psychotherapy, which has since developed nationally.

Carine also chairs the Special Interest Group in Forensic Psychotherapy at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She has lectured nationally and internationally, has many published papers and chapters, and is currently co-writing a book on forensic psychoanalysis with her supervisor and mentor, Dr Leslie Sohn.

DR ELYN SAKS, USA, is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; on the Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis; and Director, Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics. She has received several prestigious awards, including a 2009 American Fellowship “genius grant” by the MacArthur Foundation. Throughout this very rich and fulfilling life, Elyn has struggled with severe schizophrenia, described in her most recent book “The Centre Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness”.

Elyn is widely sought as an international speaker, is involved in several research projects, and has an impressive list of book and journal publications.

MR NEVILLE SYMINGTON, Australia, is a well known Sydney psychoanalyst and member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He trained in London and for several years worked at the Tavistock Institute.

In 2007 Neville started a clinical organization called Psychotherapy with Psychotic Patients (PPP). He has published several books, including one on poetry, and lectured in many countries.

the centre cannot hold

a day with Dr Carine Minne, UK Dr Elyn Saks, USA (via satellite) Mr Neville Symington, Australia Saturday 19th May

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BESIDES HUMAN BEINGS: ANIMALS, THINGS, SPACE, TIME, and GOD!

a day with Dr Salman Akhtar: Saturday 22nd May

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Psyche and Society in Times of Crisis

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Psyche and Society in Times of Crisis

a day with Dr Nancy Hollander Dr Julian Burnside Saturday 18th May

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UPROOTED MINDS:

Psyche and Society in Times of Crisis

a day with Dr Nancy Hollander and Dr Julian Burnside

Saturday 18th May The Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building 30 Royal Parade, Parkville 8.30 – 17.00

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Saturday 18th May The Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building 30 Royal Parade, Parkville 8.30 – 17.00 BOOKING ENQUIRIES

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2013 Registration Welcome: Christine Hill

MORNINg SESSIONS: 09.00 – 10.30 Chair: Helga Coulter Dr NANCY HOLLANDEr

UPROOTED MINDS 12.30 – 14.00

Lunch

AFtERNOON SESSIONS: 14.00 – 15.30 Chair: Christine Hill Dr JULIAN BUrNSIDE

A PSyChoAnAlyTiC PeRSPeCTiVe on

FRoM ConSeQuenCeS To CAuSeS –

SoCiAl TRAuMA And PSyChiC PAin

A diSCuSSion oF The ReFuGee eXPeRienCe

Nancy Caro Hollander explores how social forces and ideology converge with unconscious dynamics to frame our experience of living in a traumatogenic globalized culture of crisis.

Nancy demonstrates the extent to which “the political is personal” and illustrates through case examples how the social context of private life is inevitably manifested in the clinical setting and should be a legitimate site of analysis of the intersubjective psychoanalytic encounter.

the public demonization of asylum seekers who come to Australia largely overlooks what it is that impels refugees to seek asylum in another country, and what they experience when they come here as boat people.

In this paper Julian will discuss a number of individual cases which go a long way to explain the extraordinary psychological harm suffered by boat people in Australia.

15.30 – 16.00

10.30 – 11.00

Morning tea

11.00 – 12.30

Chair: Eve Steel

Dr NANCY HOLLANDEr FoRCed To Flee: The MARK oF TRAuMA AMonG FeMAle ReFuGeeS In this paper Nancy discusses the psychological dynamics (including unconscious meanings) involved in the female migration experience from the global south to the global north, using the example of Latin American female migration to the U.S.

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Afternoon tea

16.00 – 17.00 Chair: Rob gordon Panel discussion with Dr Nancy Hollander and Dr Julian Burnside

17.00 – 18.00 gallery viewing, drinks & nibbles, with support from the Dax Centre, located in the Kenneth Myer Building. Further information: www.daxcentre.org/collection Readings Bookstore available at the Conference

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about the speakers Dr NANCY HOLLANDEr, California, is a research psychoanalyst in private practice. Nancy also holds a number of distinguished academic positions, including Professor Emeritus of Latin American History, California State University. Nancy has explored the psychosocial dynamic and dramatic life changes in the post 9/11 USA, with its broader implications internationally, and the psychological meanings of living in tumultuous political, economic and social conditions.

Nancy has analysed how experience in the social/political life of patients inevitably makes its way into the clinical setting. A prolific writer, Nancy’s books include “Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas”.

Nancy has also directed films and hosted a regular program on Pacifica Radio on various themes, including “Psychoanalysis and Politics”.

Dr JULIAN BUrNSIDE, AO QC, is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author.

Whilst maintaining his practice as a commercial litigator, appearing in many major class actions, Julian is particularly known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers.

He has also acted in several major cases on behalf of Indigenous Australians.

Julian has received many prestigious awards, one of which was an Officer of the Order of Australia, 2009, for services as a human rights advocate, to the arts as a patron and fundraiser, and to the law. He has several successful publications on law, human rights and philology, and in addition he is a patron of numerous arts organizations.

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