Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

Furies, retells The Oresteia of Aeschylus in response to some social and ethical
challenges of climate change (see www.chorusofwomen.org).
Responding to the urgent importance of coming to terms with trauma among
indigenous communities, Leon Petchkovsky, president of ANZSJA, invited Professor
Judy Atkinson, Director of the Gnibi College of Indigenous Peoples at Southern Cross
University in Lismore, NSW, to present the annual Peter Reid Memorial lecture at the
ANZSJA AGM in June, 2008. Judy's heritage derives from the Jiman people of the
Upper Dawson in Central West Queensland, and the Bundjalung of Northern NSW. She
has focused most of her community and academic life working in the field of violence,
trauma and healing. Her paper was poignant and confronting.
Leon Petchkovsky and his team are continuing their ground breaking work on the
fMRIs of psychological complexes, and preparing material to publish in international
neurosciences journals.
ANZSJA members are notable for a spirit of psychological ecumenism, engaging in
dialogue with other schools of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. This has led to
many conferences, events, book launches and publications, such as the proceedings
(available on-line at www.anzsja.org.au) of The Uses of Subjective Experience, a
weekend of conversations between academics and analysts who engage with Jungian
ideas.
In May 2008, a cross-disciplinary book was launched at Gleebooks featuring the work
of psychoanalysts, historians, novelists and ANZSJA analysts such as Craig San Roque.
Geography of Meanings arose out of a conference at Uluru hosted by the Australian
Psychoanalytic Society, a meeting which sought to ‘understand the psychological
mysteries of land, space, native cultures, changing eras, and geographical
dislocation.’
ANZSJA analysts have been enriched by exchange of ideas at overseas conferences:
several members attended the JAP conference in Orta, Italy in May where Sue Austin
presented a seminal plenary paper (to be published in the JAP in 2009) titled ‘A
perspective on the patterns of loss, lack, disappointment and shame encountered in
the treatment of six women with severe and chronic anorexia nervosa’. Judith
Pickering gave a paper on the ethics of alterity, ‘When the Other within meets the
Other without, both are transformed’. There was also a book launch of Judith’s Being
in Love.
Andre Zanardo gave a paper in San Francisco to the Art and Psyche conference
entitled ‘Toward an Expanded Definition of Art, as Emergent from within Post
Jungian Analytic Relations’. Amanda Dowd presented a paper ‘Whose Mind am I in?
Cultural Amnesia and Cultural Complexity: the interpenetrating mix-up of migrant
experience, trauma, country and the transformation of identity’ at the Third
Multidisciplinary Academic Conference of the IAAP and the Second Joint Conference
with the IAJS, in Zürich, July 3-5, 2008.
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