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Australian Association of Group Psychotherapists •
Australian Psychoanalytical Society •
Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic • Psychotherapists (for the Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy Association of Australasia)
Saturday 18th MayThe Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building30 Royal Parade, Parkville 8.30 – 17.00
UPROOTED :Psyche and Society in Times of Crisis
adaywithDr Nancy Hollander
and Dr Julian Burnside
CoverimagebyChristineHillRearcoverbyDamienPierce
about the speakers
DR NANCY HOLLANDER,USA,isaresearchpsychoanalystinprivatepractice.Shealsoholdsanumberofdistinguishedacademicpositions,includingProfessorEmeritusofLatinAmericanHistory,CaliforniaStateUniversity.Nancyhasexploredthepsychosocialdynamicanddramaticlifechangesinthepost9/11USA,withitsbroaderimplicationsinternationally,
andthepsychologicalmeaningsoflivingintumultuouspolitical,economicandsocialconditions.
Shehasanalysedhowexperienceinthesocial/politicallifeofpatientsinevitablymakesitswayintotheclinicalsetting.Aprolificwriter,Nancy’sbooksinclude“Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas”.
ShehasalsodirectedfilmsandhostedaregularprogramonPacificaRadioonvariousthemes,including“Psychoanalysis and Politics”.
DR JULIAN BURNSIDE,AOQC,isanAustralianbarrister,humanrightsandrefugeeadvocate,andauthor.
Whilstmaintaininghispracticeasacommerciallitigator,appearinginmanymajorclassactions,Julianisparticularlyknownforhisstaunchoppositiontothemandatorydetentionofasylumseekers.HehasalsoactedinseveralmajorcasesonbehalfofIndigenousAustralians.
Julianhasreceivedmanyprestigiousawards,oneofwhichwasanOfficeroftheOrderofAustralia,2009,forservicesasahumanrightsadvocate,totheartsasapatronandfundraiser,andtothelaw.Hehasseveralsuccessfulpublicationsonlaw,humanrightsandphilology,andinadditionheisapatronofnumerousartsorganizations.
FREUD CONFERENCE2013 FREUD CONFERENCE2013UPROOTED 08.30 Registration
08.50 Welcome:ChristineHill
MORNINGSESSIONS:0900 – 10.30 Chair:HelgaCoulter
DR NANCY HOLLANDER
A PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE ON
SOCIAL TRAUMA AND PSYCHIC PAIN
NancyCaroHollanderexploreshowsocialforcesandideologyconvergewithunconsciousdynamicstoframeourexperienceoflivinginatraumatogenicglobalizedcultureofcrisis.
Nancydemonstratestheextenttowhich“thepoliticalispersonal”andillustratesthroughcaseexampleshowthesocialcontextofprivatelifeisinevitablymanifestedintheclinicalsettingandshouldbealegitimatesiteofanalysisoftheintersubjectivepsychoanalyticencounter.
10.30–11.00 Morningtea
11.00 – 12.30 Chair-EveSteel
DR NANCY HOLLANDER
FORCED TO FLEE: THE MARK OF TRAUMA
AMONG FEMALE REFUGEES
InthispaperNancydiscussesthepsychologicaldynamics(includingunconsciousmeanings)involvedinthefemalemigrationexperiencefromtheglobalsouthtotheglobalnorth,usingtheexampleofLatinAmericanfemalemigrationtotheU.S.
12.30–14.00 Lunch
AFTERNOONSESSION: 14.00 – 15.30 Chair:ChristineHill
DR JULIAN BURNSIDE
FROM CONSEQUENCES TO CAUSES –
A DISCUSSION OF THE REFUGEE EXPERIENCE
ThepublicdemonizationofasylumseekerswhocometoAustralialargelyoverlookswhatitisthatimpelsrefugeestoseekasyluminanothercountry,andwhattheyexperiencewhentheycomehereasboatpeople.
InthispaperJulianwilldiscussanumberofindividualcaseswhichgoalongwaytoexplaintheextraordinarypsychologicalharmsufferedbyboatpeopleinAustralia.
15.30–16.00 Afternoontea
16.00–17.00 Chair:RobGordon PaneldiscussionwithDrNancyHollander andDrJulianBurnside 17.00–18.00 Galleryviewing drinks&nibbles,throughsupportofthe DaxCentre
ReadingsBookstoreavailableattheConference
Psyche and Society in Times of Crisis
