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When: Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:30am to 12:45pm&nbsp; EDT<br> <br>Where: Yale Child Study Center <br>Event Status: confirmed

When: Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:30am to 12:45pm  EDT<br /> <br />Where: Yale Child Study Center <br />Event Status: confirmed <br />Event Description: On Site: Being at the Scene of Conflict ‘On Site’ examines the psychological experiences of participant observers at scenes of conflict. This year’s symposium will focus in particular on the intersection of photojournalism and psychoanalysis. We will examine the psychological experiences of individuals bearing witness to conflict. To live is to live with conflict. In our relationships, through the media and within ourselves, tension abounds. As participant observers we must confront the limitations and complications of our role. Both psychoanalysts and photojournalists bear witness to extreme experiences and yet are not integrated into nor protected from these traumatic scenes. Leora Kahn will explore the ways in which photojournalists and rescue workers affect and are affected by their role documenting and thereby participating in intensely tumultuous situations. Through her rescue work with survivors of ethnic violence, Leora will consider the varied roles she has occupied and her complicated thoughts and feelings about her participation. In this context, she will also discuss her close relationship with one of the Mengele twins over many years. Dr. Volkan will present a case report tracing the impact of a transgenerational transmission of trauma informing an individual’s character. He will explore the inner life of the individual born into trauma who then becomes the perpetrator. In so doing, he will challenge all of us to examine our emotional inheritances. He will explicate his psycho-political theory concerning the intergenerational transmission of trauma and its relationship to the formation of large and small group identities and the eruption of ethnic violence around the world. There will be discussion periods after each talk and an open discussion at the end of the program.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Wneps-UpcomingEvents/~4/2vnwtswGIwk" height="1" width="1"/>calendar@wneps.orgcalendar@wneps.org