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The walls within: working with defenses against otherness

Online Conference 5-11 July 2021

ISPSO AM 2025 Conference

25 June - 29 June 2025
Philadelphia, USA

PARALLEL PAPERS

Papers to be presented at the 2025 Symposium
Schedule and Abstracts coming soon

PresentationS at Bryn Mawr (hybrid online)

Philip Boxer: Re-Balancing Ecosystems: What Does it Take to do Justice and Why the Counter-Resistance?

Irina Brazhnikova: Can Seeking Justice Lead to More Injustice?

Elizabeth Danto
: Freud’s Free Clinics 

Tatiana Ezhova: Psychodynamic of Totalitarian Relations

Andrea Foot & Fiona Martin: Generative AI, Access to Justice and Holding an Ethical Stance: Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Early Stage Responses to Generative AI in the Justice System

Jerry Fromm: "Something Clinical is Missing": Large Group Identity, Basic Assumption Totalism and Reflective Space

András Gelei & Judit Gáspár: Applying Socioanalytic Methods to Explore Organizational (In)Justice: A Self-Reflective Case-Study of a Whole-Scale Organizational Change at a University

Kara Hayward & Shanti Nayak: Organizational Mythology in Nonprofits: Giving Us Purpose, Holding Us Back

Manon de Jongh & Morten Svalgaard Nielsen: Doing Justice to the Voices Within the Institutional Theatre?

Sophia Léonard & Moritz Senarclens de Grancy: “It’s (Not) the Mother (Earth)” – Bypassing Phantasmas of Omnipotence Through Negation

Martin Luedemann: How can the Psychoanalytical Concept of the Group-as-a-Whole Support Leaders in Engagement With Groups to Encourage Just Behaviour?

Anna Makhova: Leadership Justice and Attachment Styles: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Family Repetitions and Group Attachment in Workplace Dynamics

Belinda Mandelbaum: Brazilian Psychoanalytic Institutions Under Military Rule (1964-1985): Connivance and Resistance

Thea Mikkelsen: Personal and Organizational Justice in the Creative Industries

Katrina Monton & Debra Noumair: Exploring Covert Team Dynamics in High Performance Sport: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

Eliza Orleans & Debbie Bing: Team Turmoil: Navigating Conflict in Contemporary Organizations

Igor Ostapenko:
Healing Through Integration: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Organizational Justice in the Merger of Two Companies

Olga Piasecka-Niec & Iwona Soltysinska: Weaving Social Fabric on War's Wound: A Systemic Psychodynamic Study of Swietlica Debniki's Community Engagement

Gustavo Sánchez, Matías Sanfuentas & Francisco Valenzuela: The Fantasy of Merit: Analyzing the Logics of Career Self-Management Discourse at a Privatized Company

Howard Schwartz: Sexuality and Alienation

Rodric Smith: Leadership Development and Role Success (LDRS) Program: A Case Study on Use of Group Relations in Leadership Development to Advance Justice

Frances Unsell, Amy Simon & John Whaley: Nothing Happens in A Vacuum: Using Psychoanalytic, Systemic and Cultural Lenses in Public Opinion Research 

PresentATIONS Online / Hybrid at Bryn Mawr

Akansha Arora & Fiona Martin: Leaders, Organizations, and Justice: Navigating Social Defenses in a Post-Pandemic World

Dr. Leon Clark: How do we Forgive - Justice or Revenge? Forgiveness at Work

Nini Kerr: Revisiting Taiwan’s Authoritarian Past Through Freud’s Ego and the Id

Richard Morgan-Jones: Where Health and Justice Meet in the Work Force: Organisational Consulting to a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital

Sally Weintrobe: With Climate in Mind: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Climate Breakdown