VOICE: Psychoanalytic, Cultural & Social Justice Perspectives Annual Conference 1
2017 Special Events THURSDAY EVENING 5:00pm Scarlet APR room Welcome with music, wine and nibbles 9.00pm SATURDAY EVENING 6:30pm 7:15pm Conference Feedback Session Room A 7:15pm Dining Room Wine & Cheese Reception followed by Chair: Marilyn Charles, Lita CrocianiWindland 2
Poetry reading In honor of this year s APCS conference theme of Voice: Psychoanalysis, Cultural, and Social Justice Perspectives, please join us for a poetry reading celebrating the many creative voices of our APCS colleagues. The poetry reading will take place Saturday, October 21 st, immediately following the conference dinner, the location to be announced at the conference gathering. If you would like to read a poem(s) by you, or by another person, we will have a signup list at the start of the Saturday evening reading. Claude Barbre will chair the poetry reading session. 3
Conference Programme Date: Friday, 20/Oct/2017 8:30am 1A: Paper session: Recovering 1B: Performance Chair: Michael O'Loughlin the Unvoicing Chair: Jane Hassinger 10:00am Wave Any Ward, Hell s Voicing Suicide As Den: Voices of Possible Wishes To Kill Off Madness A Creative "Bad" Introjects And Thus Performance Achieve Rebirth Erin Soros Burton Norman Seitler 1C: 1D: Panel Chair: Claude Barbre Chair: Peter Redman Am I a Falcon, a Storm, or a Great Song? : Wounded into Language from Marginalized Voices The Voice of the Primal Father Chair(s): Claude Barbre The Use of Creativity to Recover One's Voice: Dissociation and Art in Gint Aras' The Fugue. David Bleich, Robert Samuels, Emma Lieber, Suzanne Verderber What Oedipal Fathers' Voices Say Go like a Bloodhound Where David Bleich the Truth has Trampled: Poetry and Literary Performance as Social Justice The Voice and Mouth Speech of the Primal Father in HardBoiled Detective Claude Barbre; Fiction and American claudebarbre@earthlink.net Politics Voices of Gay Men in Suzanne Verderber Recovery from Crystal Methamphetamine Use: Keeping Up With The Psychosocial Resilience President, Or, How To within a Syndemic Model Trump A Dead Dad Nicholas Jackson; Paul M. Gedo Withholding of the Mother Tongue and Eating Disorder in Oksanen s Stalin s Cows: an Instance of Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma Ginta V. Remeikis nbj7028@ego.thechicagoschool.edu Emma Lieber Through the Valley of the Shadow of Loss: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study of Jewish Orthodox Women Who Have Experienced Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Neonatal Death. Shira Kirshner; sxk2450@ego.thechicagoschool.edu 4 Trump as the Primal Father: Lacan s Critique of Freud Robert Samuels 1L
10:00am Coffee Break 10:30am 10:30am 2A: 12:00pm Psychoanalytic Clinicians and Systems of Care: Voices of Engagement, Critique, and Resistance Chair(s): Richard Ruth Discussant(s): Richard Ruth 12:00pm 1:00pm 1:00pm 2:30pm We can be Heroes: Advocating for and in spite of Psychoanalysis Almas Merchant; amerchant@brightpointhealth.org That Doesn t Work Here : Liberating Psychoanalysis from the Couch Minsun Lee; minsun.lee@shu.edu Do Healthcare Systems Serve Or MisServe Minority Communities?: Historical Perspectives And Contemporary Clinical Experiences Richard Ruth Women's Voices: How a Mother Comes to Be Kelsey Power Lunch 3A: Childhood in Crisis: psychoanalytic and cultural considerations. Chair(s): Olga Poznansky From Little spirits to wired for love: our babies our selves. Victoria Malkin; malkinvictoria@gmail.com The Child, the school and the place of the symptom. Olga Poznansky; olgapoznanskyphd@gmail.com 2B: Isolation and Ethics: Speaking Back to Power Chair(s): Marilyn Charles Trauma, Identity, and Social Justice: Taking a Stand; Making a Difference Marilyn Charles; mcharlesphd@gmail.com They spoke well We didn t understand Barri Belnap; barribelnap@gmail.com Understanding Toxicity in Institutions David Jones; david.jones@open.ac.uk "Brexit means Brexit: But what does it mean"? The Affective dilemmas of politics and loss in Brexit Britain Candida Yates; cyates@bournemouth.ac.uk 3B: Panel Chair: Marilyn Charles Voicing the 'No': Working Past the Silence with Survivors of Abuse. Dana Leigh Charatan. Psy.D., Gregory J Stevens. Ph.D., Alejandro Moreno. Ph.D., Leslie Thompson. M.A., Marilyn Charles. Ph.D. The Integration of One Self Through Voicing the No Leslie Thompson 2C: Roundtable The Diversity Journey: Experiences of Multicultural Educators Chair(s): Bindu Methikalam Presenter(s): Jade N. Logan, Mark Kenney, Nicole Monteiro, Rachel Saks 3C: Paper session: Gender, Race, Power and Privilege Chair: Jane Hassinger Whose Voice Matters? Power, Privilege, and Racial Enactment in the Case of Evergreen State College Jyoti M. Rao U.S. Slavery: Collective Trauma and Dissociation in the Body Politic Cynthia Boersma Bill Cosby s Malignant Patriarchy: A Political Psychoanalytic Perspective 2D: A Womb of Her Own: A Voice for the Female Body Chair(s): Ellen Toronto Discussant(s): Ellen Toronto Women s Oppression in a (STILL) Binary World Ellen Toronto; etoronto@umich.edu Too Warm, Too Soft, Too Maternal: What is Good Enough? Meredith Darcy; meredith.darcy@gmail.com Is There A War against Women? Doris Silverman; dksilverman1@gmail.com A Revolutionary Call about Female Sexuality Marilyn Metzl; marilynmetzl@sbcglobal.net A Revolutionary Call? Doris K Silverman 3D: Panel Chair: Nigel Williams The Neoliberal Personality Benjamin YenYi Fong, Katherine Jenness Fetishizing the Self: Clinical Encounters with the Entrepreneurial Subject Katherine Jenness Depressed Losers on the Verge of Destruction: Psychic 2L 3L 5
From neglect to recognition: 'No' as transformative experience Dana Leigh Charatan The No as Internalized Protector Gregory James Stevens Nikol AlexanderFloyd Unconscious Processes in Discussions of Campus Sexual Violence Maria Alba Life in the TwentyFirst Century Benjamin YenYi Fong Audition, Sound, Intimacy: on the sociopolitics of vagabond voices Renu Maria Ghira Cappelli 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:00pm 4:30pm 4:30pm Coffee Break 4A: Chair: Karen Lombardi Voices Of Adoption, Maternity, And Donorship: Identification, Longing,And Fantasy Chair(s): Karen Lombardi Embodiment And Adoptive Maternity Karen Lombardi; karenlombardiphd@gmail.com Adopting And Adapting Chloe Civin; chloecivin@gmail.com It Came From Outer Space: Adoptive Experiences of Alienation, Identification And Searching Hazel Collins; s.hazelcollins@gmail.com The Obscured Voice Of The Genetic Mother: Identity And Inheritance Sara Richardson; saralynnrichardson@gmail.com Coffee Break Materialization of the Imaginary, retraumatization and Working Through: case reflections Alejandro Moreno 4B: Chair: Marilyn Charles Echoing from the Edges: Lending Voice to the Marginalised of Indian Society Chair(s): Marilyn Charles Discussant(s): Jyoti M. Rao Caste Away: The echolalia of discrimination Deepti Sachdev; deepti@aud.ac.in A Sustained Note of Disquiet : Reflections on Being a Christian in a predominantly Hindu State Shalini Masih; shalini.masih@gmail.com Painting in Mozambique at the End of Socialism: A Hystory of Development Álvaro Luís Lima 4C: Panel Chair: Lynne Layton That s Not Psychoanalysis! : Challenges to Normalizing and Universalizing Subjective Experience Lynne Layton, Lara Sheehi, Orna Guralnik, Chakira Haddock Lazala, Helen DeVinney The Struggle is Real: Reflections on class and power in psychoanalytic training and practice. Lynne Layton, Lara Sheehi, Orna Guralnik, Chakira Haddock Lazala, Helen DeVinney Attacks on Linking: Defending against the Sociopolitical Lara Sheehi That s Not Psychoanalysis! : Challenges to Normalizing and Universalizing Subjective Experience Orna Guralnik That s Not Psychoanalysis! : Challenges to Normalizing and Universalizing Subjective Experience Helen DeVinney 4D: Chair: Benjamin Alex Morsa Voices carry: Exploring dialogues between and within psychoanalysis and public systems Chair(s): Benjamin Alex Morsa Discussant(s): Michael O'Loughlin What does a voice weigh?: Communication, correlation, and confession in community mental health information systems Benjamin Morsa; bmorsa@gmail.com Learning from Public Systems of Care. Richard Ruth; rruth@gwu.edu Creating an adaptive holding environment: Psychodynamic psychotherapy in public systems Kate Hariton; katehariton@gmail.com 6
5:00pm 5:00pm 6:30pm 5A: Paper session: Mad Voices in Groups and Society Chair: Peter Redman Does The Group Have A Voice? Nigel Williams Finding the Right Voice: Affective Dynamics in UK Recent Political Events Lita Iole CrocianiWindland The co authoring of Schizophrenia and the psychoses in an age of care Barri Belnap Making Sense of Madness: Epistemic Injustice and Psychiatry Huw Green, Jessie Munton 5B: Paper session: The Voice of the Subject Chair: Marilyn Charles From Speaking Truth to Power to Power Speaking Truth (and Back?): Methodological Considerations for Reading Ideology and the Psychoanalytic Subject in Historical Context Nicola Short I am unheard of! : a Lacanian approach to the assertion of the subject against the Other. David Schrans Building Castles Made of Pleasure David Zachary Hafner 5C: Paper session: Voices in Culture Chair: Claude Barbre "Daydreaming" and "Being Woke": Black and White Perspectives on "Get Out" Frances Lang, Natasha Holmes Is Resistance Futile? Picard, the Borg, and Trump Esther Rashkin Writing The Deep Woman and The Modeled Woman: Two Versions of the Feminine Uncanny in Hitchcock's Vertigo Gavriel Reisner Interface of the Spiritual Self With Psychonalytic Therapy in a Hindu Woman Alan Roland. Ph.D. 5D: Working session Finding a Writing Voice and Writing for Publication: A Conversation with PCS Editors Chair(s): Michael O'Loughlin, Angie Voela Presenter(s): Lynne Layton, Christine Maksimowicz, Michael O'Loughlin, Peter Redman, Angie Voela 6:45pm 8:30pm Dinner Gender As Significant Form: Transgender Poetry And The Establishment Of A Body s Expressive Possibilities Hannah Wallerstein 7
Date: Saturday, 21/Oct/2017 8:30am 7A: Paper session: Voice in Theory Chair: Nicola Short 10:00am The Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalytic Practice Robert Samuels Empathy for the Devil: Analytic and Political Neutrality Matthew Hamilton Bowker Notes on a Theoretical Script for Poetic Living in a Therapeutic Trance Adam Philip Shechter 7B: Paper session: Voice in Films Chair: Esther Rashkin The World Is Ours!: Spanish Bank Revenge Fantasy Films as a Voice for the Financially Dispossessed Scott Boehm Encircling The Voices From The Colony In Joaquim Furtado s A Guerra (20072013) Cindy Pinhal 7C: Chair: Ruth Lijtmaer Two Voices in Harmony or Disharmony: The Psyche and Its Social World. Chair(s): Ruth Lijtmaer Social Dreaming: A Psychoanalytic Group Approach for aacessing the Ethnic and Racial unconscious. Bermudez George; Gbermudez@antioch.edu 7D: Paper session: Silenced Voices Chair: Marilyn Charles When Silence Is NOT Golden: What Do You Say To A Silenced Child? Burton Norman Seitler The Sound of Darkness: the Unheard Voices of the Visually Impaired Leslie Thompson Sexual Healing: What s Voice Got To Do With It? Louis Rothschild 7L Pedagogy and the penalty of death: Navigating and Confronting White Fragility in Training and Education Delusional Transferences, Ventriloquism, And The Transitional Voice María Mirón, Alejandro Moreno Gaztambide Daniel; g.aztambide@hotmail.com 10:00am Coffee Break 10:30am 10:30am 8A: Paper session: Theorising Different Voices Chair: Lita Iole Crociani 12:00pm Windland Aphasia and Parapraxis in American Capitalism Thomas Paul Bonfiglio The Psychic Life of Neoliberal Women: Splitting, Blaming and Perseverance Darren T Baker, Elisabeth K Kelan Finding's One's Voice: A Philosopher's Account Angie Voela Homo Projectus: Fieldnotes on the 8B: Chair: Sophia Frydman Listening to the Siren s Song Chair(s): Sophia Frydman, PhD Sympathy for the Siren Susanna Stephens, PhD; susanna.stephens@gmail.com Broken Mirrors Sophia Frydman, PhD; sophia.frydman@gmail.com The Attack of the Siren Cassie Kaufmann, PhD; cassie.kaufmann@gmail.com The Political is Personal and the Personal Has a Voice Ruth Lijtmaer; rlijt123@gmail.com 8C: Chair: Karen Lombardi [De] [Re] Colonization Reimagined in a "Postcolonial" World Chair(s): Karen Lombardi Get Out: Colonization And Appropriation, Envy and Desire in NeoLiberal America Karen Lombardi; karenlombardiphd@gmail.com Modern Dance Performance: A Decolonizing Voice For The Black Body Carl Paris; cpari@temple.edu 8D: Chair: Michael O'Loughlin Chair: Marilyn Charles Closing the gap: A Collaborative Interpretive Approach to Inquiry with Persons with Chronic Psychiatric Difficulties Chair(s): Michael O'Loughlin, Marilyn Charles Lives Interrupted: An Analysis of Life Narratives of Persons with Chronic Psychiatric Struggles Michael O'Loughlin; michaeloloughlinphd@gmail.com Voices from the Margins Marilyn Charles; mcharlesphd@gmail.com 8L 8
primitive individuals of advanced society Greg Gabrellas Survivors, Settlers, And Assimilators: Transforming Jewish Identities Antonia Frydman; sntonis.frydman@gmail.com Considerations of Narrative Work with Persons with Chronic Psychiatric Difficulties Veronica Ozog; vao2104@tc.columbia.edu 12:00pm 1:00pm 1:00pm 2:30pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:00pm 4:30pm Lunch 9A: Chair: Marilyn Charles Marginalization and Identity: Speaking Back Chair(s): Marilyn Charles Skin Color Matters and Identity Within Marginalized Groups Annie Lee Jones; annieleejonesphd@gmail.com Shame & Maternal Language: The Lost Family Heirloom Natalia Martinez Munoz Potter; nataliapotterny@gmail.com Enactments of Otherness and Identity Politics Lara Sheehi; drlarasheehi@gmail.com The Personal is Political is Professional Devon King; devon@devonking.com Coffee Break 10A: Paper session: Voices of the Social Unconscious Chair: Lita Iole Crociani Windland Interrogating the Social Unconscious Peter Redman 9B: Paper session: Voice and Text Chair: Nigel Williams Retrieving A Lost Voice: Psychoanalysis And Writing Ashley Tellis Psychoanalysis and Justice: An Analysand Speaks Nermeen Shaikh That boy needs therapy : Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics Miltiades Hadjiosif, Adrian Coyle 10B: Chair: Jay Crosby Mind Manifesting: On Psychedelics, Psychosis and Psychoanalysis Chair(s): Jay Crosby 9C: Panel Chair: Alice Maher Harmonizing Different Voices: How Other Organizations Complement the Mission of APCS Alice Maher, Kenneth Fuchsman, Jessica Arenella A Voice For Psychosis: ISPSUS Searches For Meaning In The Incomprehensible Jessica Arenella How Psychohistory Contributes to the Mission of the APCS Kenneth Alan Fuchsman Internal Conflicts Impeding Outreach and the Importance of Communicating Across Intergroup Divides Alice Maher 10C: Chair: Ellen kaylor toronto Chair: Meredith Darcy Hearing Voices: Listening for the Subjective Maternal in Psychoanalytic Theory Chair(s): Ellen Toronto, Faith: A life interrupted Montana Queler; montanaamesqueler@gmail.com 9D: Chair: Claude Barbre The Sickness Unto Death: The Psychosocial Causes of Religious Violence, Vigilantism, and Self Immolation Chair(s): Claude Barbre What Does Not Change is the Will to Change: The Psychology of Vigilantism and the Psychosocial Causes of Selfimmolation Claude Barbre; claudebarbre@earthlink.net Sufism and The Fundamentalist Mindset: Voicing the Personal and Political Through the Lens of Lived Experiences Lutfi Alkaddour; lxa0076@ego.thechicagoschool.edu Jungian Shadow Integration in the Hindi Epic Mahabharata: An Archetypal Interpretation of Hindi Spiritual Concepts and Their Relevance to Psychotherapy Shubhara Bhattachajee; sxb9474@ego.thechicagoschool.edu 10D: Paper session: Literary Voices Chair: Claude Barbre Check Out Ishmael Reed : Reading Mumbo Jumbo and Gravity s Rainbow William Glenn Welty 9L 10L 9
Dementia: ReDrawing the Story Through the Visual Matrix. Hidden Voices, Affective Transmission and a Co Creational Encounter Carrie Clarke Social Dreaming: A Psychoanalytic Group Approach for Accessing the Ethnic and Racial Unconscious. George Stephen Bermudez In Another Voice: Reframing the Psychedelic Experience through a Psychopathological Lens Tehseen Noorani; tehs.noorani@googlemail.com Metaphysics and the Voices of Psychosis: Between Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology Jay Crosby; jaycrosbyphd@gmail.com Meredith Darcy Discussant(s): Ellen Toronto Objects in the Mirror: Finding Maternal Subjectivity in the Relational Paradigm Ellen Toronto; etoronto@umich.edu Just Bad Enough Meredith Darcy; meredith.darcy@gmail.com Voices and Young Adult Literature Erica Galioto, Spencer Pechart Fighting The Other Voices: A Reflection On Young Womanhood And The Struggle To Speak Joanna Symeou 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:00pm 6:30pm Coffee Break 11A: Paper session: Young Voices Chair: Michael O'Loughlin Department Of Abuse And Neglect: A Confusion of Tongues and Voice in Child Welfare James Charles Grabowski What We Can Learn From That Ugly And Stupid Doll Ana Archangelo Biological and Psychoanalytic Correlates of Psychedelics, Meditation, and Psychosis. Ingmar Gorman; ingmar.gorman@gmail.com 11B: Working session Social dreaming experiential session. Limited to 25 participants. Sign up at Registration Desk. Social Dreaming Lita Iole CrocianiWindland, Nigel Williams 11C: Paper session: Religious and Spiritual Voices Chair: Nikol AlexanderFloyd The Voice of God and Return of the Golden Calf Judith Logue, Marilyn Metzl Hassidism Against Terrorism: Speaking In A State Of Constant Overwhelm Eilon Nathan ShomronAtar 11D: Roundtable Chair: Jane Hassinger Chair: Billie A. Pivnick Voices From The Collaboratory: Toward An Psychoanalyticallyinformed Communitybased Practice. Chair(s): Jane A. Hassinger, Billie. Pivnick Presenter(s): Rebecca Mair, Sarah Scheckter, Zina Steinberg, Cleonie White 11L 6:30pm 7:15pm Letting the Youth Speak: Narratives of Adolescents in Psychoanalytic Residential Treatment at the Orthogenic School 20132015 Elizabeth Scholom A Transgender Child or Two Barbara Tholfsen Conference Feedback Session 7:15pm Wine & Cheese Reception followed by poetry reading The Politics of Hate: The Concretized Voice of the Dissociated Other in Intergenerational Trauma Tiffany HouckLoomis Psychoanalysts and the Spiritual Quest After Erich fromm Alan Roland. Ph.D. 10
9:00pm Date: Sunday, 22nd October 2017 8:00am 9:30am 9:30am 12:00pm PCS Editorial Board Meeting Scarlet APR APCS Annual Board Meeting Scarlet APR 11
List of Board Members CoChairs Charles Marilyn Austen Riggs Center mcharles@msu.edu CrocianiWindland Lita University of the West of England lita.crocianiwindland@uwe.ac.uk Almas SCO Family Services almas.merchant@gmail.com Michael Adelphi University, New York michaeloloughlinphd@gmail.com Layton Lynne Editor, PCS layton@rcn.com Redman Peter The Open University p.redman@open.ac.uk Treasurer Secretary Merchant Executive Director O Loughlin PCS Editors 12
Members at Large Ainslie Rico University of Texas, Austin rico.ainslie@mail.utexas.edu Alcorn Marshall George Washington University alcornma@gwu.edu AlexanderFloyd Nikol Rutgers University ngaf@rci.rutgers.edu Alford Fred C. University of Maryland calford@umd.edu Durham Jennifer Adelphi University jdurham@adelphi.edu Drury Doreen University of Massachusetts doreen.drury.apcs@gmail.com Pivnick Billie White Institute drbilliepivnick@gmail.com. Rashkin Esther University of Utah esther.rashkin@utah.edu Ready Trisha Private practice ready@wolfenet.com Ruti Mari University of Toronto mari.ruti@utoronto.ca Short Nicola York University ncshort@yorku.ca Sloan Tod Lewis & Clark Grad School of Education sloan@lclark.edu Voela Angie University of East London A.Voela@uel.ac.uk Yates Candida Bournemouth University cyates@bournemouth.ac.uk Wyatt Jean Occidental College jwyatt@oxy.edu 13