Illuminating how race, trans and queer studies intersects problematically with psychoanalysis

Illuminating how race, trans and queer studies intersects problematically with psychoanalysis

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. serves as Associated Faculty for the Psychoanalytic Studies Minor at University of Pennsylvania and co-founder/director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group. Originally from Argentina, her work with marginalized communities, began with Latinx and expanded to include gender and sexual variant people.

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Sustaining and growing Freud’s theories in an age that has misunderstood and challenged Freud’s relevance

Sustaining and growing Freud’s theories in an age that has misunderstood and challenged Freud’s relevance

Anton Oscar Kris, M.D. (1934-2021) was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a psychoanalyst, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and a past Executive Director of The Sigmund Freud Archives, Inc. Within his work, he raised funds to gain freedom from copyright for Freud’s holographs for the public domain, ultimately publishing them on the Library of Congress website, exponentially expanding readership.

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Pioneering work to bring psychoanalysis to low-income people and those affected by violence

Pioneering work to bring psychoanalysis to low-income people and those affected by violence

Helí Rafael Morales Ascencio, Ph.D., founder of the Social Foundation of Psychoanalysis in Mexico City, is also a founding member of two other movements that include The Lacanian Analytical Network and the Psychoanalytic Letter Sculpture. The Social Foundation of Psychoanalysis’ analysts provide care for victims of sexual violence and relatives of the 177,884 missing women in Mexico while the Foundation’s psychoanalytic listening clinics receive people without financial resources or hurt by sexist violence.

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Overcoming systemic racial and economic obstacles, SAPA graduates “homegrown” psychoanalysts

Overcoming systemic racial and economic obstacles, SAPA graduates “homegrown” psychoanalysts

The South African Psychoanalytical Association (SAPA), a nonprofit organization, has dramatically increased the reach of psychoanalytic thought and psychoanalysis for people with histories of apartheid, racism, and trauma in South Africa. Notably, SAPA established the first psychoanalytic society accredited by the International Psychoanalytical Association on the African continent and helped deconstruct racist barriers within psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical training.

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Giving psychoanalysis a voice in Norway

Giving psychoanalysis a voice in Norway

During a time in Norway when psychoanalysis was under great threat, Siri Gullestad’s work as a teacher, researcher, and public advocate was vital to preserving and ultimately growing the profession. A researcher, theoretician, educator, and a powerful public voice, Gullestad developed a highly innovative psychoanalytic theory that was applied to both university training and clinical treatment.

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Reducing Childhood Aggression Starts with Caregivers

Reducing Childhood Aggression Starts with Caregivers

Dr. Henri Parens’ innovative research work focused on a psychoanalytic approach to the understanding and treatment of aggression. Working with caregiver/children dyads, Dr. Parens and his colleagues documented their hypothesis that caregivers could be taught optimal ways to handle the emergence of aggression in children and this approach could improve the children’s

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Developing and expanding psychoanalysis throughout Latin America

Developing and expanding psychoanalysis throughout Latin America

While serving as rector of the Instituto Universitario De Salud Mental de APdeBA (IUSAM), Dr. Rodolfo Moguillansky helped lead efforts to attain academic accreditation for the university’s psychoanalytic training program, built on the International Psychoanalytic Association’s tripartite training model. IUSAM is the only accredited university-based program that combines clinical supervision, academic coursework, and personal analysis.

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Confronting Personal Trauma in a Group

Confronting Personal Trauma in a Group

Imagine sitting across from a person who represents violence that changed your family’s collective experience. A not-for-profit charity organization, Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA) has developed and applied a unique approach to working with traumatized groups, national and international. PCCA’s method represents a novel amalgamation of psychoanalytic insights with group relations concepts and structure.

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What did founder Mary Sigourney hope to achieve with The Sigourney Award?

What did founder Mary Sigourney hope to achieve with The Sigourney Award?

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Tell Us Something About Mary

Tell Us Something About Mary

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There’s a new deadline! How to apply for The Sigourney Award.

There’s a new deadline! How to apply for The Sigourney Award.

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