Crossing Borders: Clinical, Theoretical, Cultural and Political Implications in our Changing World

Thursday 11 April 2024: pre-conference session

Cultural Complexes and Race

9.15 Welcome

9.30-11.00 Presentations by each facilitator

• Fanny Brewster (US): Our Inner Racial Borders: Envisioning a 21st Century Post-Colonial Collective Landscape
• Elizabeth Brodersen (DE): The Positioning of Taboo within Cultural Complexes—Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives
• Helen Morgan (UK): The Work of Whiteness

11.00 Morning coffee

11.30-13.00 First workshops – participants to choose which facilitator’s group they join first

13.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Second workshops – participants each to join a different second facilitator’s group

15.30 Afternoon tea

16.00-17.00 Plenary with all facilitators

Friday 12 April 2024

Borders around Identity: Cultural Expressions of Trauma

8.00-9.00 Social dreaming matrix

9.15 Welcome

9.30-9.45 Renos Papadopoulos (UK): Opening address (via Zoom)

9.45-10.45 Monica Luci (UK/IT): Disputed Boundaries of the Self, the Group, and their Environment: What we Learn from Refugees about Trauma, War and Culture

10.45 Morning coffee

11.15-12.15 Karin Fleischer (Argentina): Stolen Identities, Suspended Lives: Embodied Analysis with Victims of Early Trauma Due to State Terrorism

12.15 Lunch

13.30-15.00 Breakout panels 1

15.00 Afternoon tea

15.30-17.00 Breakout panels 2

17.30-18.15 Andrew Samuels (UK): On Analytical Psychology and Politics: A Cutting Edge and Transformative Contribution—OR A Narcissistic Total Waste of Time Only of Interest to Some Analysts and Therapists?

18.30 Evening drinks reception

Saturday 13 April 2024

Borders around Identity: Gender Fluidity: Self in Culture

8.00-9.00 Social dreaming matrix

9.45 Welcome

10.00-11.00 Robert Tyminski (US): Humanizing Different Archetypal Expressions of Gender Expansiveness

11.00 Morning coffee

11.30-12.30 Jay Barlow (UK): Engendering Identity when Boundaries Confirm an Exiled Self

12.30 Lunch

13.30-15.00 Breakout panels 1

15.00 Afternoon tea

15.30-17.00 Breakout panels 2

Saturday evening: Conference gala dinner

Sunday 14 April 2024

Borders around Identity: Working Within and Across Different Faiths

8.00-9.00 Social dreaming matrix

9.45 Welcome

10.00-11.00 Leslie Stein (US/AU): The Unifying Self in all Faiths and Beliefs

11.00 Morning coffee

11.30-12.30 Murray Stein (US/CH): The Faithless Analyst (via Zoom)

12.30 Break

12.45-13.45 Closing conference plenary