Program of the conference
The First European Conference of Analytical Psychology
“Dialogue at the Threshold between East and West:
Cultural Identity Past, Present and Future”
Cultural Identity Past, Present and Future”
Plenary sessions will take place in the Central building of Vilnius University
in Universiteto str. 3 (look in a map below).
Afternoon sessions will take place in the Faculty of Philosophy
in Universiteto str. 9/1 (near Presidential Palace and Daukanto Square).
For general information look in About Lithuania and Vilnius
For information about tours look in Accomodation and tours
The Program
Thursday, June 25, 2009
2:00p.m.- 5:00p.m. Registration | Faculty of Philosophy, 2nd floor |
4:50p.m.- 5:15p.m. Opening – Gražina Gudaitė for the Organizing Committee, Angela Connolly for the Program Committee, Rector of Vilnius University |
Theater Hall, central building of Vilnius University (VU) |
5:15p.m.- 6:15p.m. Keynote Address – “The Cultural Unconscious and the Roots of Identity” Verena Kast (Chair: Murray Stein) |
Theater Hall, central building (VU) |
6:15p.m.- 7:15p.m. Lithuanian musical performance (Chair: Gražina Gudaitė) String quartet “Akademija” (Prof. P. Kunca, D. Šešelgienė, M. Makrickas, R. Kalnėnaitė) Group of sutartinės chanters “Trys keturiose” (D.Račiūnaitė- Vyčinienė and others) |
Theater Hall, central building (VU) |
7:15p.m.- 8:30p.m. Reception with Refreshments |
Cafe (See 1 in the map below) |
Friday, June 26 “OUR DIFFICULT HISTORY”
8:30a.m.- 9:30a.m. Social Dreaming Matrix (Helen Morgan & Penny Pickles) |
Theater Hall, central building (VU) |
9:40a.m.- 11:10a.m. Plenary (Chair: Angela Connolly) “Coping with Collective Trauma” - Danute Gailiene, Gražina Gudaitė et. al. |
Theater Hall, central building (VU) |
11:10a.m.- 11:30a.m. Coffee break |
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11:30a.m.- 1:00p.m. Plenary (Chair: Marianne Mueller) A. “From Soul Murder to Post-Traumatic Growth” – Ursula Wirtz |
Theater Hall, central building (VU) |
B. “Terror, Persecution and Attachment” – Brian Feldman |
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1:00p.m.- 2:00p.m. Lunch |
Faculty of Philosophy: Cafe |
2:00p.m.- 3:30p.m. Breakout sessions | Faculty of Philosophy |
A. (Chair: François Martin-Vallas) 1. “Individuation, Cultural Identity and Cultural Memory” – Gunter Langwieler 2. “Gender Roles Modeled by the Serbian Cultural Environment, Then and Now” – Svetlana Zdravkovic |
Room 209 |
B. (Chair: Christian Gaillard) 1. “Changing Minds” – Margaret Wilkinson 2. “Healing Symbols in Depression” – Elona Ilgiuvienė |
Room 301 |
C. (Chair: Marianne Mueller) 1. “They Don’t Come to Seek Analysis” – Regina Renn 2. “Trauma, Transference/Countertransference and Latvian Folklore” – Ieva Bite |
Room 303 |
D. (Chair: Joerg Rasche) 1. “The Shot Memory – Reflections on the Influence of WWII Trauma on the Contemporary Polish Psyche” - Matgorzata Kalinowska and Anna Rozycka 2. “Complex Psychology and the Theory of Dissociated Mind” – Nadia Fina and Caterina Vezzoli |
Room 307 |
E. (Chair: Angela Connolly) 1. “In Search for a Meaning of Suffering and Death" – Algis Petronis |
Room 201 |
F. (Chair: Jan Wiener) 1. “Homosexualities: Politics, Culture Wars, and the Challenge to Analytical Psychology” - Barry Miller 2. “The Question of Homosexuality” – Joseph David Shesko 3. “Gay to Be Homosexual?” – Erhard Trittibach 4. ”Interdisciplinary Interrogation about the Feminine and Masculine” – Marie-Laure Grivet-Tour |
Room 302 |
G. (Chair: Ann Casement) 1. “Using the Transitional Space of the Sandtray for Working Through a Teenager’s Emotional Trauma” – Vera Batna 2. “The Structure of Complexes after Experiences of Trauma in Childhood and Adulthood” – Krzysztof Rutkowski |
Room 214 |
3:30p.m.- 3:45p.m. Coffee break |
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3:45p.m.- 5:15p.m. Breakout sessions | Faculty of Philosophy |
A. (Chair: Ann Casement) 1. “European Identity: Vas Hermeticum or Melting Pot” – Velimir Popovic 2. “Primal Relationship Deprivation and Identity Formation in Adolescence: Life Story Analysis” – Asta Zbarauskaite |
Room 214 |
B. (Chair: Joerg Rasche) 1. “The Wild Feminine: Reconnecting to a Powerful Archetypal Image” – Katharina Casanova 2. “Peculiarities of Mother Complex Constellation in Girls with Experience of Sexual Abuse Trauma” – Neringa Grigutyte |
Room 204 |
C. (Chair: Murray Stein) 1. “When the Eye Holds to Vision” – Gunilla Midboe 2. “Detained Childhood: Specificity of Analysis in Russia” - Vsevolod Kalinenko |
Room 209 |
D. (Chair: Angela Connolly) 1. “Perverse Solutions to Trauma” – Geraldine Godsil 2. “Interrogation and Torture in Politically Repressed Countries” – Christopher Mead |
Room 201 |
E. (Chair: Christian Gaillard) 1. “The Intrapsychic Origins of Unconscious Racism” – Anna Bravesmith 2. “Modern Day Traumas, Memories of Identities and Encounters with the Other”- Irene Agnello & Angiola Iapoce |
Room 301 |
F. (Chair: Jan Wiener (continued)) 1. “Homosexualities: Politics, Culture Wars, and the Challenge to Analytical Psychology” – Barry Miller 2. “The Question of Homosexuality” – Joseph David Shesko 3. “Gay to Be Homosexual?” – Erhard Trittibach 4.”Interdisciplinary Interrogation about the Feminine and Masculine” – Marie-Laure Grivet-Tour |
Room 302 |
G. (Chair: Marianne Mueller) 1. “Symbolic Touch in the Analytical Frame” - Maria Lomova 2. “Supervision – Analytical Psychology in Connection with Balint group-work” – Stephan Alder |
Room 303 |
5:30p.m.- 7:00p.m. Plenary – Community Meeting (Chairs: Murray Stein & Ann Casement) |
Theater Hall, central building (VU) |
7:00 p.m. Friday evening events arranged by Lithuanian Group: Guided walking tour in the old town of Vilnius (optional) |
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7:00 p.m. “In Search for the Origins of Cultural Identity” - Rita Repšienė Documentary Film “Signs Out of Time” The story of archeologist Marija Gimbutas by Donna Read and Starhawk (optional) |
Room 301, Faculty of Philosophy |
7:00 p.m. Faculty of Philosophy Optional Documentary Film “Soviet story” by Edvins Snore (optional) |
Room 214, Faculty of Philosophy |
Saturday, June 27 “EMERGING IDENTITIES”
8:00a.m.- 9:30a.m. Presidents’ Meeting (Chair: Marianne Mueller) |
Restaurant of Shakespeare hotel |
8:30a.m.- 9:30a.m. Social Dreaming Matrix - (Helen Morgan & Penny Pickles) |
Theater Hall, central building (VU) |
9:40a.m.- 11:10a.m. Plenary (Chair: Hester Solomon) Panel: “Developing Analytic Identity in Different Cultures – Outreach Models” – Erel Shalit (Israel), Svetlana Nikolkova (Bulgaria), Misser Berg (Denmark), Ursula Peterson (Estonia), Jan Wiener (London), Oksana Lavrova (St. Petersburg), Penny Pickles (London) and Tatiana Rebeko (Moscow) |
Theater Hall, central building (VU) |
11:10a.m.- 11:30a.m. Coffee break |
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11:30a.m.- 1:00a.m. Plenary (Chair: François Martin-Vallas) A. “Relationship, Freedom, Tolerance and Culture – Four Principles of Therapeutical Work in Eastern Europe Founded on the Ground of Analytical Psychology” - Gert Sauer B. “Nostalgia and Lost Identity” – Elena Pourtova |
Theater Hall, central building (VU) |
1:00p.m.-2:00 p.m. Lunch |
Faculty of Philosophy Cafe |
During lunch Informal meeting for members of Developing Groups in Eastern Europe to consider the possibility of shared teaching programmes (Chairs: Jan Wiener and Erel Shalit) |
Theater Hall, central building (VU) |
2:00p.m.-3:30p.m. Breakout sessions | Faculty of Philosophy |
A. (Chair: Murray Stein) 1. “Outer and Inner Maps” – Margaret Klenk 2. “S. P. Huntington, C. G. Jung and the Search for Civilization” – John Dourley |
Room 214 |
B. (Chair: Angela Connolly) 1. “The Dialogue between East and West as an Intrapsychic Process” – Yehuda Abramovitch 2. “The Comparison of Attitude and Relationship to Evil/Devil in Western and Eastern Cultures” – Natalia Pavlikova |
Room 209 |
C. (Chair: Christian Gaillard) 1. “The Politics of Collective Memory – Perspectives from the Antipodes” – Glenda Cloughley 2. “Containment and the Womb of the Great Mother” – Dmitri Zalessky |
Room 307 |
D. (Chair: Marianne Mueller) 1. “Baltic Landscape in an Inner Journey of a Woman” – Goda Rukšaitė 2. “Lithuanian Symbols: Their Meaning in My Work with Lithuanian Trainees” – Kathrin Asper |
Room 201 |
E. (Chair: Joerg Rasche) 1. “Cultural Tourism and Soul Care” – Kaj Noschis 2. “Dreaming from Venice to China” – Pasqualino Ancona & Elena Cristiani |
Room 303 |
F. (Chair: Jan Wiener) 1. “Images of Authority” - Catherine Crowther, Tatiana Rudakova and Vladimir Tsivinsky |
Room 302 |
G. Workshop: “Explorations in the Psychology of the Lithuanian Folktale Egle, the Queen of Serpents” – Thomas Kapacinskas |
Room 301 |
3:30p.m.- 3:45p.m. Coffee break |
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3:45p.m.- 5:15p.m. Breakout sessions |
Faculty of Philosophy |
A. (Chair: Jan Wiener) 1. “The Fountain of Memories: Buried and Uncovered” – Maria Anna Bernasconi 2. “Borderlives: Making Sense of Cultural Identity Through Life Histories” – Chiara Sebastiani |
Room 302 |
B. (Chair: Murray Stein) 1. “Nationalism and the Cultural Complex: Ireland’s Transformation of a Mythic Heritage” – John Hill 2. “Cultural Complexes in the Hungarian Change of Systems” – Zsolt Deak |
Room 201 |
C. (Chair: Ann Casement) 1. “Daidalon: The Archetype of Possibility” – Giorgio Tricarico 2. “The Trickster Archetype and the Function of Laughter in Therapeutic Dialogue” – Lukasz Muldner-Nieckowski |
Room 204 |
D. (Chair: Marianne Mueller) 1. “The Fool as the Bearer of Meaning” – Maria Mercedes Dominguez 2. “Reconciling (with) the Self” – Gerhard Burda |
Room 214 |
E. (Chair: Christian Gaillard) 1. “A Reflection on my Tunisian Experience” – Lidia Tarantini 2. “Islam: New Life in an Old Archetype?” – Bernard Sartorius |
Room 307 |
F. (Chair: Gert Sauer) 1. Erel Shalit on "Transient Masks: The Transient Personality between Persona and Shadow" - Erel Shalit 2. "To Cultivate the Fallow through Developing Work" - Helga Thomas |
Room 303 |
5:30p.m.- 6:30p.m. Plenary – Joerg Rasche in concert “The Girl of Lake Svitec. A Baltic-Slavic Anima in the Ballades of A. Mickiewicz and F. Chopin." |
The Hall of little Aula, central building of Vilnius University |
8:00p.m. Closing Banquet, Belmont Restaurant |
Meeting point: Cathedral square Bus parking lot |
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