Unbounded Worlds – A Challenge for Group Relations? Shmuel Erlich Group Relations (GR) came into being and evolved against the background of the world as constituted in the 1950s and in the aftermath of WWII. Its universe was not only clearly bounded – it was super-bounded. Good and evil were sharply separated and demarcated through the [...]
PCCA Conference 2020 WALLS-OPEN, CLOSED, SLIDING? Europe and our world today Ernst Sillem Hoeve, Den Dolder, The Netherlands Thursday 27th – Monday 31st August 2020 PCCA, through its conferences, works towards developing strategies to engage with the legacy of past atrocities and with contemporary societal conflicts that can contribute to opening up the possibility of a [...]
Minutes in: Learning from experience in the presence of the other- Opportunities and obstacles 80 years later- will history repeat itself? PCCA 2019 Conference Our airplane lands in Larnaca airport after a short flight from Israel. Four people, all of us psychoanalysts, were on that Wednesday morning flight. Three women and one man. One couple. [...]
80 years later, will history repeat itself? The fallout of the holocaust over those affected Looking back, moving forward Director's report "The past is never dead. It's not even past." W. Faulkner, Requiem for a nun This conference in the context of PCCA This conference in the context of PCCA This conference, marking 80 years to the beginning [...]
Dear Friends of PCCA This is the third Newsletter of 2019, and I am very happy to be able to report about some very positive events in the life of PCCA: First of all, we are more than happy about the latest news which we just received: PCCA has won the Sigourney Award 2019! Psychoanalysts among [...]
2016 was a watershed year in which naked racism emerged from the shadows to take centre stage in public life in the West. That June, the campaign to take Britain out of the European Union succeeded, and some five months later Donald Trump won the US presidency. Both campaigns were fought on openly xenophobic platforms [...]
Partners in confronting collective atrocities e.V. is a German non-profit and charitable society. It benefits from a special status, granted by the German tax authority, which allows it to issue tax certificates to its donors, which can use these for tax deduction purposes. PCCA is also exempt from paying corporate taxes. These privileges are granted and [...]
by Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing Since the last Newsletter from March 2018, PCCA has had two important events: Dear Colleagues, Supporters and Friends of PCCA! This year will be marked by the remembrance of the war, which began 80 years ago in 1939 and ended in 1945. We have probably all followed the news accompanying the [...]
Letter of Chairperson Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing Since the last Newsletter from March 2018, PCCA has had two important events: We have organized another PCCA conference, directed by Louisa D. Brunner in Den Dolder in the Netherlands, August 30th – September 3rd 2018 under the title: “Exclusion, Resentment and the Return of the Repressed. Europe [...]
by Dr Allan Shafer - Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist & Socioanalyst, Melbourne. Accompanying a Special Exhibition - Registered, persecuted, annihilated: The Sick and Disabled under National Socialism, the Jewish Holocaust Centre of Melbourne, convened a workshop on the 9th December 2018 on the theme “Registered, Persecuted, Annihilated: The legacy of the Nazi persecution of people with disabilities”. This theme corresponded well [...]