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This piece was prepared for a Red Clinic online meeting 'Palestine Solidarity: Speak Out/Talk Back' which took place in October 2023. The Red Clinic is a collective of communist mental health workers. This piece addresses psychoanalytic questions of the internationalist space we inhabit, the place of contradiction in our conception of the world, and the importance of time in our understanding of historical events.

In the research project, Children in World War II—"German elderly psychoanalysts remember", psychoanalysts of the German Psychoanalytical Association born between 1930 and 1945 were interviewed on this topic, first with questionnaires and then with interviews. The author takes an approach about how today's psychoanalysts, who grew up during World War II, viewed their experiences, damages, losses, and traumatisation in connection with coming to terms with the collective guilt of the Germans. How were they able to address and work through the childhood experiences and traumas of war in their analyses? The author emphasises how important remembering is for a whole society after genocide, war, and dictatorships that are like that of the Third Reich in Germany.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the ways in which psychoanalysts think and work. Mary Brownescombe Heller and Sheena Pollet bring together internationally known contributors trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis to explore the broad range of clinical work, thinking, and teaching undertaken with children, families, adults and staff by psychoanalysts in the UK public health sector. Divided into four sections, The Work of Psychoanalysts in the Public Health Sector covers:clinical work with parents and young childrenclinical work with adults and their familiesanalytic thinking

The gender implications of the emerging field of psychoanalysis in post-Soviet Russia are discussed, based on interviews with 1 male & 8 female professional psychoanalysts in St. Petersburg & Moscow. The recent revival of psychoanalysis in Russia is characterized by (1) assimilation of individualizing, middle-class, Western influences into Russian culture; (2) theoretization & redfinition of gender roles; & (3) reliance on classical Freudian psychoanalysis in the absence of Russian translations of more recent Western feminist critiques & alternative theories. The utilization of traditional psychoanalysis has created a conflict for female professionals between the gender stereotypes advocated by the Freudian perspective & the Western-inspired drive for personal growth & professional achievement among both genders. This paradox has been resolved by defining psychoanalysis as a professional sphere separate from the male-dominated public spheres of employment. Although psychoanalysis has promoted discussion of previously overlooked sexual & personal relations, its current form reinforces bourgeois stereotypes of women as passive, intellectually inferior, & unsuited for employment. T. Sevier