IPA Journal Club with Emily Kuriloff, Psy.D.

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The IPA Journal Club (JC) is a project of the IPA Communications Committee. It meets 5-6 times per academic year (September-June) on Fridays at 4 PM London time for 75 minutes.
Each meeting, in webinar format, is in English and features a guest author who discusses with registrants an article or chapter they have published. The meetings are recorded and later posted online at the IPA website and on the IPA UA-cam channel for viewing by the general public.
This recording corresponds to the seventh Journal Club, featuring Emily Kuriloff, Psy.D., which was on Friday, June 14th, 2024, at 4 p.m. London time.
Registration, which is free of charge, is open to IPA members and candidates, other interested mental health professionals, scholars and academics. A downloadable copy of the paper is available to registrants. Ideally, all registrants will have read the paper beforehand and have an opportunity to ask questions or make comments to the guest author.
Paper:
Kuriloff, E.A. (2014). A child is something else. In: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 136-158.
Abstract:
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and The Legacy of the Third Reich explores the ways in which the trauma of the European Shoah transformed the development of psychoanalysis at its apex and beyond. In this reading, the book’s final chapter, Kuriloff features psychoanalysts some of whom were children during the Third Reich (Henri Parens, Henry Krystal), while others were born afterward to parents who had suffered under the Nazis (Jack Drescher, Evelyn Berger Hartman, Douglas Kirsner, Robert Prince).
Earlier book chapters had documented ways in which these analysts’ professional foremothers and fathers had downplayed the impact of personal catastrophe on their professional lives. In contrast, this group seems to honor the place of traumatic history in their work. This chapter asks and attempts to answer the question, “Why would this be so?”
The IPA Journal Club would like to thank the publisher, Taylor & Francis, for giving permission to share this chapter with attendees.
The Kuriloff chapter can be downloaded at this link:
www.ipa.world/IPA/IPA_DOCS/PD...
Bio
Emily A. Kuriloff, Psy.D., is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York. She served as Book Review Editor and Editorial board member for the Institute's flagship journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Her scholarly writing includes the intersection between culture, politics, and psychoanalysis, and the relationship between action and reflection, body and mind. Her book, Contemporary Psychoanalysis and The Legacy of the Third Reich, (2014) explores the ways in which the trauma of the European Shoah transformed the development of psychoanalysis at its apex and beyond. The book, which was a finalist for the Gradiva award for excellence in Psychoanalytic writing, is published by Routledge (2014).
The moderator of the Journal Club is Jack Drescher, MD
Bio
Jack Drescher, MD, a member of IPA’s Communications Committee, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City. A recipient of the 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for his international work on gender and sexuality, Dr. Drescher is on the faculties of the William Alanson White Institute, the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia as well. He is an elected Director-at-Large of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His publications have been translated into numerous languages. He is author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.

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Bob Prince. Thanks for your wonderful comments; so authentic, so erudite, so full of feeling.

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I love this, Evie, and I love you. You honor your family, and your teachers. And, US.

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Wow Evelyn. Thanks for your depth and feelingful eloquence.

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Jack-Thanks for mentioning Philip. And for describing his work so well and tersely.

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Bob Prince. Your mind is amazing. Thanks for your erudition and eloquence. And thanks for being You. xoxoxo

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Jack, You look so handsome when you get teary eyed.

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Jack Drescher I love it when you cry. You strong, brilliant, erudite Jew. You dear friend.

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Thank you all. Do you think that the exclusionary practices in psychoanalytic education( militarily called training with control cases) has been influenced at all by the unspoken trauma of the holocaust? We rarely talk about the cruelty, even sadism, in our own field.

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Great point. I think that All of this has influenced all of us, professionally and personally.