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I Can’t Forget What You Couldn’t Tell Me:  A Psychoanalyst Listens to Asylum Seekers

I Can’t Forget What You Couldn’t Tell Me:  A Psychoanalyst Listens to Asylum Seekers

Saturday May 20th 2023

10:30am-12:30pm

In Person and Zoom

UUCC Church

21600 Shaker Blvd,

Shaker Heights, OH 44122

2 CEU’s available

Dr. Auerhahn will discuss her psychoanalytic process evaluating refugees as part of their application for asylum.   She will focus on the emergence of unrepresented content and abject states within the intersubjective matrix that lead to collaborative creation of a story of trauma.  She will also examine how such intra- and inter-personal encounters are structured by the larger social, political and cultural contexts that support, limit, structure, erase and determine what can be known and told. 

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Bio:

Nanette Auerhahn received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1980 and is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Beachwood, OH.  She has taught at Yale, Stanford, the California School of Professional Psychology, and Case Western University and is currently on the faculties of the psychiatry department of the Cleveland Clinic and the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center where she is also chair of the Program Committee and a member of the education and curriculum committees.  Dr. Auerhahn has published numerous articles and book chapters on psychoanalysis and trauma and her writings have won several awards including the 2021 International Deanna Holtzman, Ph.D. Interdisciplinary / Applied Psychoanalysis Award Prize given by the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and the 2019 Elise Hayman Award granted by the International Psychoanalytic Association for the most cogent, relevant and commendable wok on the Holocaust and genocide.  Dr. Auerhahn is currently editing a book to be published by Routledge titled "The Legacy of War and Genocide: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Cinema of Massive Psychic Trauma."  Together with Ira Brenner, M.D., she has chaired an annual discussion group on Effects of the Holocaust and Genocide on Survivors and Family Members at the winter meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association.