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Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (APP)
2019-20, 4th Block — Mondays, 8:00-9:15pm
Robin Mccoy-Brooks

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April 13, 2020 — Loss of a Way of Life; Pandemic Outcomes, Clinical Applications

APPP Quest (draft)

Our second seminar focuses on a paper I wrote for a chapter in a book that is forthcoming. This is an early draft and please do not share it. Our focus is pandemic experience and the loss of a way of life and a community came together and created a clinic on its own behalf. I use a case vignette taken from a therapy retreat of a moment in group life that I claim galvanized the group towards a collective action through the expression of a shared truth. I format my article from my reading of an article Lacan wrote in 1945 on “collective logic.” If you don’t yet know who Jacques Lacan is, please google him online. He is one of the most forward thinking and influential psychoanalysts (from France) of our times, especially in Europe and amongst academics (critical studies, political studies, queer theory, feminisms, anthropology, literature, post-colonial studies and so on). We will consider how we might consider catastrophic events as an impetus for creative outcomes within our own disciplines (thinking into new theory where the old theories do not hold) or just as people rising to a higher level of creativity in all kinds of ways such as in the production of the “Pandemic Story” workbook for children. 

Optional Reading

My Pandemic Story: A guided Activity Workbook for the World’s Children, Families, Teachers and Caregivers. (2020)