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CSMHI is pleased to announce an Interdisciplinary Seminar: Unravelling Trauma: October 23rd and 24th, 2004 This Seminar includes the |
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Presentation Descriptions and Schedule Saturday, October 23, 2004 8:30 am to 8:50 am 8:50 am to 9:00 am 9:00 am to 11:30 pm Throughout WWII, European Jewry underwent stages of massive psychic traumatization. Follow-up studies of survivors by pioneers in the field of Holocaust trauma, such as Henry Krystal, focus on psychological resilience. Dr. Brenner will link these findings to the fate of "infantile omnipotence", the sense of all powerfulness, egocentricity, and cognitive immaturity in early childhood, as described by developmentalists including Donald Winnicott and Margaret Mahler. Dr. Brenner will examine resilience in light of recent neurobiological discoveries. Film clips from The Pawnbroker, Life is Beautiful and The Pianist will illustrate the themes developed in this presentation. 11:30 am to 12:45 pm 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm May 10, 1940, the German army attacked and invaded Belgium. I was 11. In Bruxelles, alarmed Jews - and others - fled to safety in France. Safety there soon turned into concentration camps. Encouraged by my mother, I escaped and found temporary asylum in a Home for Children - war orphans and refugees. Then, coming to America with 49 other refugee children, to permanent asylum, to start the work of recovery from psychic injury and losses, to start life anew. 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm When a child experiences a trauma, this event becomes intertwined with the growing child and adult's unconscious fantasy life. When the distressed adult comes for psychoanalysis, the usual methods of understanding and interpreting the adult's unconscious fantasy are not curative in and of themselves. This presentation will discuss the real-life treatments of several adults whose unconscious fantasies have been complicated by a real world event(s) and the actions that the patient takes in addition to the analyst's interpretations and understandings that lead to improvement. Sunday, October 24, 2004 8:30 am to 8:50 am 8:50 am to 9:00 am 9:00 am to 11:00 am This presentation explores what can be learned from the activity of international courts about the psychological trauma experienced by victims and the investigators, forensic specialists, attorneys and interpreters in advance of and in the course of the trials. Additional emphasis will include the early failures in the investigation of gender crimes, the presentor's particular observations of various war criminals including Radovan Karadzic, and the relationships that developed among the imprisoned. Handle With Care , a film produced at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia will be shown. 11:15 am to 12:15 pm The normal pressures of identity formation during adolescence can, in a society under stress, propel adolescents into behaviors that are damaging to themselves and to society as they substitute their individual identities and family ties with group identities. In some cases, extremism provides a persuasive identity for marginalized teenagers, filling their powerful needs for identity, security, relationships and self-esteem during a critical developmental phase. Click Here for more information on the Presenters Click Here for travel and lodging information Click Here to join our mailing list or send us a question |
