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January 31st, Oxford (Oxford Neuropsychoanalysis): On Remembering. Exploring memory and improvisation in clinical practice. Drawing on Jaak Panksepp’s affective neuroscience, Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of time, and Cristina Alberini’s research on early infant memory, we consider what happens when remembering is treated as a live act rather than a process of retrieval.
Another approach to history taking: Freud, Neuropsychoanalysis, Walter Benjamin and remembering, revisited: (Publication) details TBA, paper for Neuropsychoanalysis Journal.
June TBA, London,(workshop): What Helps? Workshop for support and frontline workers.
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May 29th, (online talk): Intensive EMDR. What can Freud's psychoanalysis tell us about intensity and EMDR?
June 20th, New York, USA (talk, Mnt Sinai Hospital): On No - the homeostatic context of refusal or a fantasy: to describe a child’s development without recognising how the refusal of personhood under racialised slavery, beginning in the 1600s, has been involved in the shaping and continues to shape the very conception of individual subjectivity.
July, British Journal of Psychotherapy (publication): Be Somebody Else: Improvisation, momentum and psychoanalysis as social psychotherapy.
September 7th, Cork, Ireland (film, University College symposium addressing Derrida's seminars on hospitality): Repercussion. A short piece of sonic cinema concerning questions of responsibility involving some seminars by Jacques Derrida, photography by Mark Neville, a text by Tom Tomaszewski, the voice of Sarah Wood, oxytocin, love and hate.
December 5th, Oxford (talk and film, Quaker Meeting House): ... will not be televised. What happens when we speak about working with trauma, when we attempt to take a history, and when repetition turns particular experiences into generalities? This talk includes a demonstration and discussion of Francine Shapiro’s EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), listening to Gil Scott-Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and asking “why not?”, thinking through Walter Benjamin’s Jetztzeit with a nod to the Angel of History, and wondering, at the end of the day, what we all think we are doing.
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