Witches, Trauma, and Depth Psychology? The Practice of Psychology Today

Resistance and Radical Edges Conference, June 2017
Introduction to Dr. Donald Kalsched and clinical depth psychology by the Chair of the Clinical Psychology Department, Dr. Oksana Yakushko

On the weekend of June 16-18 of 2017 The Retreat at Pacifica Graduate Institute hosted over one-hundred guests at the landmark conference Response at the Radical Edge: Depth Psychology for the 21st Century. Chair of Pacifica’s Clinical Psychology Program, Dr. Oksana Yakushko, welcomed guests on the morning of June 17th and gave some opening remarks. We hope you enjoy the replay of the live presentation. If you would prefer, Dr. Yakushko has kindly offered her written speech which you can access below the video.

You can also access the transcript of the lecture at Pacifica Post.

The Core Complex of a Traumatized Psyche

Opening Keynote presentation by Donald Kalsched, Ph.D., Response at the Radical Edge: Depth Psychology for the 21st Century
Summary article by Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.

 

“The false God changes suffering into violence. The true God changes violence into suffering,” begins Jungian analyst Donald Kalsched, quoting Simone Weil, French philosopher, mystic, and political activist [1], at the “Response at the Radical Edge” conference at Pacifica Graduate Institute. That day, Kalsched was up in the dark hours before dawn reworking his talk, which he gave a new title, “Healthy and Unhealthy: Hatred in the Psyche and In the Country.” He noted that the “false god” is abroad in the country at the moment, and while many in the field of Depth Psychology are working hard on behalf of “the true God” who turns violence into suffering, they are finding it difficult in a culture that supports the “false God” in this scenario.

Continue reading at Pacifica Post.

Interrogating the Limits of Trauma Language

A conversation on sexual abuse narratives in art making and storytelling

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The panel explores cultural narratives of gender-based violence and victimhood, the complexities of reclaiming pleasures that are intrinsically connected to pain, and the repositioning of incest and other forms of childhood abuse as a structural problem that occurs within the family institution.

Read transcripts of the panel discussion at GUERNICA.

Are Women Allowed to Love Their Jobs?

My grandmother worked. My mother worked. But I’m the
only one who was encouraged to seek fulfillment in a career.

Jill Filipovic APRIL 28, 2017

Historically, women weren’t supposed to need their individual identity to be formed through work, because women weren’t supposed to have individual identities at all: They melded into their husband’s identity when they married. Women’s identities have long been relational — daughter, wife, mother — rather than individual.

Which is perhaps why today, women finding individual identities tied to their work makes so many people uncomfortable — why people are so quick to assert that we can’t “have it all,” why the American government and workplaces are so slow to implement policies that would enable us to at least have something a little better.

Click here to read Filipovic’s insightful article at the New York Times.

Student on student sexual assault is more common than we thought

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Sexual abuse of students by other students happens more frequently in schools than reported, according to a new investigative report. Associated Press reporters tallied during a four-year period at least 17,000 cases around the country, including many that were treated as bullying or hazing instead. Jeffrey Brown learns more from Emily Schmall of the Associated Press.

Click here to listen to the report at PBS News Hour

Refugee women and children ‘beaten, raped and starved in Libyan hellholes’

Militia-run detention centres in Libya are ‘no more than forced labour camps and makeshift prisons’, Unicef says Women and children making the dangerous journey to Europe to flee poverty and conflicts in Africa are being beaten, raped and starved in “living hellholes” in Libya, the United Nations children’s agency, Unicef, has said.

Source: Refugee women and children ‘beaten, raped and starved in Libyan hellholes’

The Trump Effect On Domestic Violence: What’s At Stake?

Domestic violence accounts for 14% of all homicides in the U.S. And most of the victims are women. These statistics prove that Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a serious and pervasive problem across the country.

Source: The Trump Effect On Domestic Violence: What’s At Stake?

What Trump’s Immigration Policies Mean For Domestic Violence

Fear of deportation often causes abuse victims to remain silent. Until recently, I worked at The Family Place, a domestic violence agency in Dallas, where I’d …

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MILCK – “Quiet”

As a survivor of anorexia, abuse, and depression, I can say that I have let the overwhelming pressures of filling media/society’s expectations of “how a woman should be” overwhelm and silence my inner voices – without even realizing I was doing it. Until… I just couldn’t breathe anymore. As I live more days on this planet now, I can say with full confidence that there are no standards or rules worth crushing our soul bones to fit into. Life gets better when we just… let it out.

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Risking Domestic Violence to Pursue an Education

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Accessing school in the rural villages of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan can be a harrowing experience for a girl. The nearest school may be a three- or four-mile walk on dangerous roads where she is subject to harassment from men she passes.

Source: Risking Domestic Violence to Pursue an Education

In India, its not easy to report on rape

Reporting about rape in Indian villages is not easy. The stigma of sexual assault is so pervasive that the first response to a rape is often silence, or victim-shaming.

Source: In India, its not easy to report on rape

Sexual assaults in taxis and Ubers could be tracked in a new database

From taxis and livery cars to Uber and Lyft, passengers and drivers alike have reported facing harassment, unwanted sexual advances, kidnapping and assault .

Source: Sexual assaults in taxis and Ubers could be tracked in a new database

Child Sexual Abuse in organisations and institutions

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Over recent years we have seen a growing recognition of the problem of child sexual abuse, both historically and non-recent, ranging from sexual abuse by celebrities, institutional child sexual abuse and sexual abuse within the criminal justice system (i.e., the police & prison service ); which have resulted in a series of inquiries in to institutional child sexual abuse in England and Wales ( Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse , the Office for the Children’s Commissioner’s report into CSA in the Family Environment ), Scotland ( Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry ), Northern Ireland ( Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry ) and Australia ( Royal Commission into Institutional responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Source: Child Sexual Abuse in organisations and institutions

Proving rape and seduction in the post-Victorian era: KU professor’s new book explores early 1900s sex crime trials

Lawrence Journal World Donovan explores rape and other sex crimes of the early 1900s in his new book, “Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in New York City, 1900-1918.” The book, which came out in October, is based on Donovan’s research of thousands of pages of court …

Source: Proving rape and seduction in the post-Victorian era: KU professor’s new book explores early 1900s sex crime trials

Q&A: Memoirist Mary Karr on Being the Only Woman in the Room

Mary Karr’s New York Times bestselling memoir The Liars’ Club was one of my mom’s many book club books, and it sat on our living room coffee table for a month when I was in middle school. I’d page through between commercial breaks as I watched The Oprah Winfrey Show after school, and nibbled on string cheese and drank a Capri Sun.

Source: Q&A: Memoirist Mary Karr on Being the Only Woman in the Room

Long Seen As Victim, 17th Century Italian Painter Emerges As Feminist Icon

She was one of the great female protagonists of the late-Renaissance art world. Forgotten in the 18th and 19th centuries , she was rediscovered in the 20th as a feminist icon .

Source: Long Seen As Victim, 17th Century Italian Painter Emerges As Feminist Icon

How Our Obsession With Getting Laid In College Blurs The Lines Of Sexual Assault

Elite Daily’s “Recognize Rape” project looks at rape and sexual assault from a variety of perspectives in an effort to gain a better understanding of the violent act.

Source: How Our Obsession With Getting Laid In College Blurs The Lines Of Sexual Assault

Artists Hung 3000 Pairs of Underwear in the Street to Raise Awareness About Rape

 South Africa has the highest rate of rape in the world, and two women artists are drawing attention to the issue in an eye-catching way.

Source: Artists Hung 3000 Pairs of Underwear in the Street to Raise Awareness About Rape

The Process of Disclosure

Fourteen years. That’s how long it took me to admit to myself and others that I had survived a physically violent relationship.

For over a decade, I didn’t identify as a victim of assault because I loved my assailant and thought that he loved me.

Source: The Process of Disclosure

The Vimba app finds help for women reporting rape and domestic …

The Vimba app finds help for women reporting rape and domestic violence:

It’s the end of the month in Diepsloot, a dangerous time for women. Many people in the impoverished township are paid their wages in … more »

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