Uncovering Our Humanity: Psychoanalysts and Community in Colombia
featuring María Cecilia Sánchez, Camila Gutiérrez Cardoso, and Silvia Rivera Largacha
Saturday, September 28, 2024
11 AM – 1:30 PM EDT via Zoom
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| The Harlem Family Institute continues its Saturday Talks series The State of the World, with three clinicians from Colombia discussing the particular challenges and benefits of community psychoanalysis in their experiences, and lessons from Indigenous resistance. María Cecilia Sánchez will present an article which asks for the projection of our queries in social and cultural interventions and searches for an ethic that could help for humanization, and explore why we ask the questions that we ask. Camila Gutiérrez Cardoso will discuss her personal experience as a community psychoanalyst and her process of learning to “listen to the words and the silences, the joy, the pain and the unasked questions.” She will explore the role of analysis in healing the traumas caused by war, violence and conflict in a troubled time in world history, and how this work can transform individuals even when all hope seems to be lost. Silvia Rivera Largacha will present on how, in an era marked by global crises – climate change, political upheaval, and widening inequality, psychoanalysis can contribute to understanding and addressing these challenges through the lens of work with indigenous communities. Drawing from experiences with the indigenous communities of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada, we examine how psychoanalytic approaches can be adapted to support communities facing the compounded traumas of historical oppression, environmental degradation, and armed conflict. |
| This program offers 2.5 New York State continuing-education contact-hour credits for New York State Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers and Psychologists. It also offers Certificates of Attendance. Full details on event registration page. |