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Conference Abstract Book Table of Contents THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 ...................................................................................................................... 9 OPTIONAL PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAMS .............................................................................................. 9 A: THE DYNAMIC OF PRIVILEGE AND POWER IN PSYCHOANALYSIS ...................................................................... 9 B: DRAMATIZATION AND IMPROVISATION IN PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD THEORY: FORTY YEARS IN SEARCH OF A RELATIONAL METAPSYCHOLOGY ................................................................................................................ 10 C: WINNICOTT AND THE RELATIONAL TRADITION .......................................................................................... 11 D: ENACTMENT: FROM REPETITION COMPULSION TO INTERSUBJECTIVITY .......................................................... 12 E: TALITHA DID NOT RISE: ROUND TABLE REFLECTIONS ON THE OBSTACLES TO A PALESTINIAN ISRAELI CONFERENCE ENCOUNTER ........................................................................................................................................... 13 PAPER/PANEL SESSION A - 15:00-16:30 ................................................................................................ 13 A.1. INVITED PANEL: HOW DO WE IMAGINE THE FUTURE FOR CHILDREN IN TIMES OF CONFLICT AND CRISIS? NEW CHALLENGES IN THE CLINICAL EXCHANGE WITH CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND PARENTS ...................................... 14 Paper 1: Postmillennials’ Feeling of Being Robbed of their Future and their Parents’ Failure to Imagine their Future ...................................................................................................................... 14 Paper 2: Imagine All the Children Playing in the Succah- Play Therapy with Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Children .......................................................................................................................................... 15 Paper 3: How do we Imagine the Future for Children in Times of Conflict and Crisis? New Challenges in the Clinical Exchange with Children, Adolescents and Parents .................................................. 16 A.2 THE CAPACITY TO IMAGINE (TOGETHER): FROM STAGNATION TO IMAGINATION IN CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY ....... 17 Paper 1: Therapy through Games and Imagination – A Post-Traumatic Child .............................. 17 Paper 2: “Imagination for Two”: The Intersubjective Dimension in the Absence of Play in Child Psychotherapy................................................................................................................................ 19 Paper 3: The Therapist’s Interpretations In Animal-Assisted Psychodynamic Therapy: The “Dance” Between the Child's Inner World and His Relationship with The Animals and Others in His Life... 21 A.3 WHERE SILENCE WAS, THERE WORDS SHALL BECOME: THE IMPORTANCE AND LIMITATIONS OF IMAGINATION IN COMING TO LIFE OF WITNESSING AND TESTIMONY ........................................................................................ 22 Paper 1: The "Newspeak" of the Perpetrator and the Phenomenon of "Screen Confessions" ...... 22 Paper 2: Testimony is a State of Mind ........................................................................................... 24 Paper 3: Standing Against Silence: Czelaw Milosz, Denise Levertov and Poetry of Witness.......... 25 A.4 TAKING OUR IMAGINATION SERIOUSLY: IN FRIENDSHIP, IMMIGRATION AND CLINICAL MOMENT ...................... 27 Paper 1: With a Little Help From My Friends: A Glance at the Perception of Friendship, As a Creative Resource in Psychotherapy ............................................................................................................ 27 Paper 2: The Imaginative Bridge to Relational Contact; from the Random to the Meaningful ..... 28 Paper 3: Immigration, Shame and Belonging ................................................................................ 30 A.5 DESTRUCTION AND SURVIVAL: TRAUMA, TERRORISM AND THE REGAINING OF IMAGINATION .......................... 30 Paper 1: Terrorism as a Failure in Imagination; A Lack of Individual and Societal Empathy ......... 30 Paper 2: A Story of Defiance and Resilience: How a Fantasy Relationship Converted Violent Abuse into Creative Alternatives .............................................................................................................. 31 Paper 3: Trauma Healing: Linking Psyche and Soma on a Journey from the Unimagined to the Imagined and the Re-imagined ...................................................................................................... 33 1 A.6 IMAGINING THE LIVE BODY, IMAGINING MORTALITY ................................................................................ 34 Paper 1: Mind ‘Play’: Therapeutic Use of the Imagination in the Psychodynamic-Somatic Treatment of Trauma ...................................................................................................................................... 34 Paper 2: Imagining Psycho-Immunity in the Analytic Dyad ........................................................... 35 Paper 3: Minding Dread: Imagination at the Edge of Being .......................................................... 37 A.7 TRANSITIONAL SPACE, TRANSITIONAL OBJECT: PSYCHOANALYTIC LISTENING, SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION AND THE PLACE OF INANIMATE OBJECTS .................................................................................................................. 38 Paper 1: One Eye Wide Open, One Eye Closed – Between the Banal and the Abnormal In Therapeutic Sessions ...................................................................................................................... 38 Paper 2: The Genesis of A Scientific Fantasy: From the Salvific Penis to the Wise Baby ................ 40 Paper 3: To Have and To Have Not ................................................................................................ 42 A.8 FROM MALIGNANT TO BENIGN IMAGINATION ........................................................................................ 43 Paper 1: Malignant Imagination: A Testimony To The Unthinkable .............................................. 43 Paper 2: Trauma and the Struggle to Mourn: Praying for Transformations in "O" ....................... 45 Paper 3: Danger of the Imagination .............................................................................................. 46 A.9 THE ANALYST PARTICIPATION IN REMOBILIZING DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES .............................................. 47 Paper 1: Kohut's Selfobject Experience: An Early Relational Concept ............................................ 47 Paper 2: "Self-subject" and the Recreation of the Father in the Transitional Space between Reality and Imagination ............................................................................................................................. 49 Paper 3: Many Bridges to Cross ..................................................................................................... 50 A.10 WORKSHOP: THE INTERSUBJECTIVE BODY - IMAGERY IN SUPERVISION AND ITS RELATIONAL AND CORPOREAL RESONANCES.......................................................................................................................................... 51 A.11 CROSSINGS: CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC AND QUEER PERSPECTIVES ON ORTHODOX JUDAISM’S STRUGGLE WITH (TRANS) GENDER IDENTITIES ............................................................................................................ 52 Paper 1: Gender Incoherence and the Relinquishing of Selfhood as a Mystical Practice .............. 52 Paper 2: Jewish Law (Halakhah) and the Heterosexual Matrix ..................................................... 53 Paper 3: Crossing the Divides ......................................................................................................... 54 Paper 4/ Moderator: Border Crossings .......................................................................................... 54 A.12 TRANS-GENERATIONAL TRAUMA AND THE MUTUAL IMAGINING OF DISSOCIATION ...................................... 55 Paper 1: Sexual Assault: Intergenerational Trauma and Apres-Coup ............................................ 56 Paper 2: Looking Beyond Stick Figure Images: My Personal and Professional Journey to Understanding the Impact of My Holocaust History ..................................................................... 57 Paper 3: Fantastic Reality the “As If Space” Where the Impossible Is Possible: Imagination as A Source of Healing From Trauma .................................................................................................... 58 PLENARY I: TO DREAM THE (IM)POSSIBLE DREAM- 17:15 – 19:15 ...................................................... 60 FRIDAY, 21 JUNE 2019 ........................................................................................................................... 60 PLENARY II: WHAT IS IMAGINATION AND WHAT IS MEANT BY “IMAGINING WITH EYES WIDE OPEN”? – 9:45 – 11:45 ........................................................................................................................... 60 PAPER/PANEL SESSION B - 14:15-15:45 ................................................................................................ 61 B.1 INVITED PANEL: ACTUAL MINDS AND POSSIBLE WORLDS: IMAGINATION’S PLACE IN PSYCHIC LIFE .................... 61 B.2 INVITED PANEL: PSYCHOANALYSTS GRAPPLE WITH THE GLOBAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY: