"My PCCA” experience is now a bit more than 3 years old - so rather young in comparison to other PCCA members, and probably most subscribers of this newsletter. I was initially attracted to PCCA’s work, because I have been working for economic development in Eastern Europe for most of my professional life; and so the [...]
Oren Kaplan is interviewing Gila Oren: The Duality of the experience of PCCA Dr. Gila Oren is a faculty member at the College of Management in Israel. She is an expert in Marketing and Advertising and held a series of senior roles in industry and academia, for example in Keshet Chunnle-2 TV, Gitam BBDO, and as [...]
THEN in NOW – NOW in THEN “Will History Repeat Itself? PCCA 2019” Conference reflections from a participant’s perspective The Spirit of the place: Mass graves, hundreds of names of the missing, relics of Jewish refugee camps, victims and perpetrators on all sides and a dividing zone between cultures till now – this is Cyprus, the [...]
by Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing Dear Colleagues, Supporters and Friends of PCCA! We had planned to send you our 1st newsletter 2020 earlier this year in March. But we had to discover and to acknowledge that we needed more time in the midst of the Corona Crisis to think about our situation. On one side it [...]
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 [...]