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The walls within: working with defenses against otherness

Online Conference 5-11 July 2021

ISPSO AM 2024 Conference

1 July - 7 July, 2024
Sofia, Bulgaria

 

SYMPOSIUM PAPERS - PROGRAM

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FRIDAY 5 JuLY
Parallel Papers Session 1 - FRIDAY 1.45 PM - 3.00 PM EEST

Looking for sources of innovation, transformation and new positive futures in the creative industries.
Presenter: Thea Mikkelsen
CE Credits Available
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The Psychedelic Balcony: Phantastic Object or Simply Fantastic?
Presenter: Courtney Rennicke
CE Credits Available
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Communication and the civilising process: A case study from within ISPSO.
Presenters: Martin Ringer & András Gelei
CE Credits Available
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Containment of discontent and clashes of civilizations – the South African Crucible
Presenter: Rica Viljoen
CE Credits Available
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More-than human relations: technology as an actor in our discontented organizations and civilizations
Presenter: Nick Waggett
CE Credits Available
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Parallel Papers Session 2 - FRIDAY 3.30 pm - 4.45 pm EEST

Presented online
Tension in Groups: The Developmental Conflict in Groups
Presenter: Conrad Chrzanowski
CE Credits Available
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Psychoanalysis and its Discontents: Mission and Values in Analytic Institutes
Presenter: Gerard Fromm
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From Milkshakes to Menzies-Lyth: A taste of proposed PhD research into the efficacy of reflective practice as a containing function for teachers in Australia.
Presenter:  Kristina Karlsson
CE Credits Available
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Navigating the Edge: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Living Organizations
Presenter:  Moritz Senarclens de Grancy
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Politics of Difference - Uses and Abuses.
Presenter: Charlotte Williams
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SATURDAY 6 JuLY
Parallel Papers Session 3 - SATURDAY 11.00 Am - 12.15 EEST

“Not alone in the trauma” The value of the Social Photo-Matrix and Social Dream-Drawing Methodologies for groups and teams in disturbed times.
Presenters: Irina Brazhnikova, Rose Redding Mersky & Ekaterina Shapovalova
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Systems-Psychodynamic Guerilla Style within Development of the Belgrade Koinonia-Art Training in the Traumatized Psycho-Social Fields with Paradigm Clashes
Presenter: Marina Mojovic
CE Credits Available
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Citizens Assemblies as a representative forum for civilizations and their discontents - working with conscious and unconscious dynamics in societal challenges and dilemmas.
Presenter: Manon de Jongh
CE Credits Available
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Overcoming the discontents of hybrid working
Presenters: Helen McKelvie, Thomas Mitchell, Cath McKinney, Brigid Nossal & Sally Mussared
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Who takes care of co-existence at the collapse of social order? Exploring polarization in connection to the promise of radical laterality and the collapse of hierarchies.
Presenter: Petros Oratis
CE Credits Available
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Parallel Papers Session 4 - SATURDAY 1:45 Pm - 3:00pm EEST

Presented online
River of Division and Integration -  dialogue among Slovenian and Serbian tripartite matrices.
Presenter: Igor Ambrožic
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Tensions on the production line: a conflict with obscured causes. 
Presenter: Martin Lüdemann
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The Tavistock work discussion group method: Using a group method to promote curiosity in work with discontented organisations Presenter: Mark Stein
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Humanitarians: Civilising the Discontents Beyond salvation: the psychosocial dynamics of humanitarians
Presenter: Simon Western
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Presented Online
What custom sternly divides? The dynamics of influence and impasse.

Presenter: James Walker
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Parallel Papers Session 5 - SATURDAY 3.30 pm - 4.45 PM EEST

Presented online
Freud’s Psychoanalysis of Racial, Gender and Other Forms of Systemic Othering with Some Implications for Contemporary Organizational Leadership and Consulting
Presenter: Wally Fletcher
CE Credits Available
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Civilizational discontents and maladaptations in socio-technical systems: Are uncommon futures inevitable at the cusp of the Anthropocene? 
Presenter:  Ajeet N. Mathur
CE Credits Available
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Presented online
Bricks Without Mortar

Presenters: James Krantz & Jack Marmorstein
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Exploring the confluence of systems psychodynamics group coaching with a career leadership model.
Presenter: Adrian Parsadh
CE Credits Available
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Stop the idealization of acceleration and complexity.  A framework and a few building blocks for how to work with strategy, implementation, and intervention from a systems psychodynamic point of view.
Presenter: Steen Visholm
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SUNDAY 7 JULY
Parallel Papers Session 6 - SUNDAY 11:00am-12.15 EEST

Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Effectiveness of Future Search
Presenter: Jeffrey Axelbank
CE Credits Available
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Presented online
Civilisation and its Malcontents.

Presenter:  Ron Spielman
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The Virtual World and its Discontents: Exploring Anxieties, Defences, and Boundaries in Zoom and Similar Platforms.
Presenters: Kalina Stamenova, Irene O Byrne-Maguire & Bryan Maguire
CE Credits Available
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Presented Online
Hypothesis: Polarization as a regressed defense mechanism against unbearable anxiety driven by emerged unreliability of current social systems due to lack of trust.

Presenter: Alina Sokolova
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