INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’S
46th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
MAY 18-20, 2023
VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM
WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON?
PSYCHOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON A WORLD ON THE EDGE
SUBTHEMES: PSYCHOHISTORICAL INSIGHTS ON
• CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DENIAL
• WARS, GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICT, AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL CRISES
• RESURGENT TRIBALISM: BACKLASH TO NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION
• GENDER, RACE, AND IDEOLOGIES OF DOMINATION
• PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HEALING
INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’S 45th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Group Identity and the Sources of Conflict
May 19-21, June 25-26, and October 8-9, 2022 on Zoom
Political, racial, religious, and other large group identities and belief systems are being challenged as never before in our era of globalization. Conflicts include white supremacism vs. multicultural solidarity; resurgent patriarchy vs. gender diversity and equality; authoritarianism vs. democracy; science denial (on pandemics and climate change) vs. science-informed policy and activism; and more. Some of the questions we ask are:
- How should we understand the psychodynamics of conflict in its many forms?
- What are the sources of group identities in childhood experience and later socialization?
- How can we handle conflict to facilitate individual and collective healing?
44rd ANNUAL IPA CONFERENCE,
MAY 19-21, 2021, GOTOMEETING PLATFORM
CONFERENCE THEMES:
IDENTITY AND CONFLICT IN HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
43rd ANNUAL IPA CONFERENCE,
MAY 23-24, JUNE 27-28, AND OCTOBER 10-11, 2020, GOTOMEETING PLATFORM
CONFERENCE THEMES: A PANDEMIC AND A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: PSYCHOANALYTIC AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
42nd ANNUAL IPA CONFERENCE,
5/22 to 5/24/19, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE THEMES: The Intersection of Psychology and History
SUB-THEME: The Contributions of Michael Eigen to Human Understanding
41st ANNUAL IPA CONFERENCE
5/30 to 6/1/18, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
40th ANNUAL IPA CONFERENCE
5/31 to 6/2/17, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
IPA 2015 FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SELECT CONFERENCE VIDEOS FROM IPA 2015, June 3-5, New York University
Psychohistory at the Crossroads: Learning from the Past and Present. Moderator: Ken Fuchsman, Ph.D. Panel members: David Beisel, Ph.D. (SUNY Rockland); Molly Castelloe, Ph.D. (Metropolitan College of New York); Paul Elovitz, Ph.D. (Ramapo College, NJ), David Lotto, Ph.D., Peter Petschauer, Ph.D., June 3, 2015.
PSYCHOHISTORY AT THE CROSSROADS, PART I
PSYCHOHISTORY AT THE CROSSROADS, PART II
The Nuclear Mystique: Seventy Years after Hiroshima/Nagasaki. Dr. Diane Perlman, Ph.D., clinical and political psychologist, mediator, and visiting scholar at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Dr. Perlman’s work encompasses the psychological dynamics of enmity, nuclearism, and terrorism, as well as conflict transformation and the design of alternative security policies. She participates in United Nations conferences and non-governmental organizations and is co-author with Joanna Santa Barbara and Johan Galtung of Reconciliation: Clearing the Past, Building a Future. Visit her website at www.consciouspolitics.org. June 3, 2015.
NUCLEAR MYSTIQUE, PART I NUCLEAR MYSTIQUE, PART II
The Little Hans Case and the Questionable Foundations of Freudian Oedipal Theory. Jerome C. Wakefield, DSW, Ph.D. is a Professor of Social Work and Professor of Psychiatry at New York University, and Honorary Faculty in the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education. Dr. Wakefield is the author of “All We Have to Fear: How Psychiatry Transforms Natural Fear into Mental Disorder” and 200 other publications in psychology, philosophy, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and social work, dealing with issues at the intersection of philosophy and the mental health professions, June 3, 2015.
THE LITTLE HANS CASE, PART I THE LITTLE HANS CASE, PART II
Roots of Terrorism and War: Economic Interests Meet Machismo. Myriam Miedzian, Ph.D. is author of Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link between Masculinity and Violence and He Walked Through Walls: A Twentieth Century Tale of Survival and co-author of Generations: A Century of Women Speak about Their Lives. Dr. Miedzian’s blogs on political, social, and cultural issues appear in several online publications including the Huffington Post. They can also be found on her website: www.myriammiedzian.com. June 3, 2015.
Keynote address: Racial History in America: Collective Shame and Absent Memory. Sue Grand, PhD, is the instructor and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis; associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society; and a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the author of The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective and The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude, June 3, 2015.
A Comparison of Leadership in Early Freudianism and Psychohistory. Paul H. Elovitz, PhD is a Director of the Psychohistory Forum, Historian, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Professor (Ramapo College), and Editor, Clio’s Psyche. For more information about Dr. Elovitz, visit http://www.ramapo.edu/sshgs/faculty/paul-elovitz/ June 4, 2015
LEADERSHIP IN EARLY FREUDIANISM AND PSYCHOHISTORY
Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld Memorial Panel, June 5, 2015 1. Opening remarks – by Jeffrey Lewis, PhD, Moderator 2. Jeff Seinfeld’s Exploration of Bad Objects and Empty Core Experiences and Their Impact in the Psychotherapeutic Process, and Its contribution to the Theory of Object Relations. – by Jack Schwartz, LCSW, PsyD, NCPsyA 3. On Jeffrey Seinfeld’s Legacy of Examining Cultural Artifacts as Tools for Personal and Professional Growth. – by Robinson Lilienthal, PhD. 4. Jeffrey Seinfeld’s Thinking Related to Dialectical Psychological Experience. – by Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt. 5. On Jeffrey Seinfeld’s Legacy of Spirituality and Mindfulness in Life and Clinical Practice. – by Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD 6. Q & A
SEINFELD MEMORIAL PANEL, PART I SEINFELD MEMORIAL PANEL, PART II