Presentations

In recent years, developing largely from the work of the Erikson Institute, I’ve given a number of presentations on clinical and applied psychoanalytic themes.  Topics include:

• “Fear of Breakthrough: Revisiting Winnicott’s ‘Fear of Breakdown’ Paper”
• “Life Cycles and the Transmission of Trauma: Reflections on Erikson’s Life and Work”
• “Challenges to College Health Services during the Covid Crisis”
• “A Work of Art That Saved Your Life,” Arts in Mind Conference
• “Several Characters and Three Surrogates,” Symposium on Transitional Space and Cyberspace
• “Social Dreaming in Nazi Germany”
• “National Nightmare: Thoughts on the Genesis and Legacy of Perpetrator Trauma”
• “Identity Crisis and Jihad”
• “A Group Intervention in Northern Ireland”
• “Preparing the Ground: Psychological Intervention in Societal Conflict”
• “Reflections on Trauma and Organizations”
• “A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Moral Injury and War Trauma”
• “Psychoanalysis under Conditions of War,” monthly case conference with Ukrainian psychotherapists, sponsored by the Freud Museum, Vienna.

Some of these presentations form the chapters of my book, Traveling through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself out in Families, Organizations and Society, published by Phoenix Publishing House in 2022.  www.firingthemind.com