Series: Social Justice and Human Rights: 1. The Psychoanalyst as Citizen: Clinical, Ethical and Historical Perspectives

This talk addresses issues that may remove us from our comfort zone as clinicians. It reviews the history of how psychoanalysts have dealt with the interrelationship between their clinical work and their ethical obligations as citizens to engage in the political and social world around them. Clinical work suffers if not informed by the analyst's keen awareness of the patient's political history as well as her or his own political history. What role is there for the psychoanalyst as activist/advocate/lobbyist in upholding the integrity of the profession?

Bennett Simon, MD, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has long been involved in the interface of psychoanalysis and the humanities and psychoanalysis and the social sciences. He has thought and written about the political self of the analyst and of the patient, and in what form these aspects are expressed and how to find a space for appropriate dialogue in the analytic setting. Together with his wife, Dr. Roberta Apfel, he has been active in the study of the effects of war and communal violence on children. In conjunction with Physicians for Human Rights, he has been involved in evaluating refugees from persecution seeking Political Asylum. He is on the Faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst, and Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

No Charge or 1.5 CE’s/Clock Hours: $20

TO REGISTER: http://www.bgsp.edu/event/social-justice-human-rights-series-psychoanalyst-citizen/

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