This event is limited to the BGSP community members and is not open to the public.
A Showing of the Film, Blind Trust
Israel and Palestine. Irish Catholics and Protestants. Serbs / Croats / Bosniaks. Hutus and Tutsis. Shia and Sunni. India and Pakistan. Red States / Blue States…
Across the globe, the most intractable and violent conflicts involve communities that share what psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan has termed “large group identity,” the enduring, emotionally charged sense of belonging to a vast group, maintained through shared symbols, narratives, and transgenerationally transmitted traumas and glories which become powerfully activated under conditions of perceived threat.
Blind Trust is a film about large group identity and the extraordinary work of Volkan and others to bring an analytic perspective to adversaries in traumatized regions of the globe.
View the trailer: https://vimeo.com/203504407
Discussants
- M. Gerard Fromm, Ph.D., ABPP, psychoanalyst, past Director of the Erick Erickson Institute at the Austen Riggs Center and past President of the International Dialogue Initiative, the organization that he and Vamik Volkan founded to bring a psychologically-informed perspective to the study and amelioration of societal conflict.
- Jane Snyder, Ph.D., Cert.Psya., BGSP faculty member and Provost
OBJECTIVES
The participant will be able to:
- Describe the concept of large group identity as it applies to work on resolving conflicts that Varmik Volkan has worked with.
- Discuss an example of how psychoanalytic perspective has helped in work with countries in conflict.
- Discuss how this work might apply to current examples of political conflict in his country or others.
2 CE Units / Clock Hours
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The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is accredited by the New England Commission on Higher Education.
Direct inquiries may be made regarding the accreditation status by NECHE to the administrative staff of the institution. Individuals may also contact: New England Commission on Higher Education, 3 Burlington Woods Drive, Ste 100, Burlington, MA 01803-4514, at (781) 425-7785 or email: info@neche.org
