Dr. Tessa Philips Conference: Shifting Perspectives on the Personal and Clinical: Race, Place and Self in the Modern World

 

My work grew from the realization that my young life in apartheid South Africa was impacting on my ability to relate fully to my patients in my work as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Sydney. This presentation follows on from my recent paper, Race, Place and Self in the Experience of a Bystander published in The International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Vol. 6,No. 3, (2011). Again the examples and narratives relate to South Africa, but the principles that emerge have far-reaching, even universal implications. They apply to scars that are the legacy of being raised in an autocratic state. The ramifications of being a member of the white oppressing class by virtue of birth can never be erased, and issues of atonement, bystanding, personal responsibility, culpability and guilt endure. My aim is to examine those feelings that endure, using the tools of my therapeutic trade.

2.5 CEs available


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
1:30PM - 2:00PM         Registration
2:00PM - 2:15PM         Introductions
2:15PM - 3:00PM         Tessa Philips, Ph.D. Presentation
3:00PM - 3:15PM         Veronica Abney, Ph.D., Discussant
3:15PM - 3:30PM         Break
3:30PM - 4:15PM         Tessa Philips, Ph.D. Presentation
4:15PM - 4:30PM         Gita Zarnegar, Ph.D., Discussant
4:30PM - 5:00PM         Audience Participation, Q & A

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