
CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS DIVISION
The Clinical Psychoanalysis Division is made up of physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, clinicians and other mental health professionals involved in clinical practice, and individuals with a serious interest in clinical practice who are collaborators and members of SPIIRAL. This division develops study groups, working groups, reading groups, and other projects on diverse topics of specifically clinical interest, with emphases on the dimension of experience, on the importance of methodological self-reflection, and on the priority of a properly psychoanalytic ethics.
SOCIOCULTURAL AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS DIVISION
All members and collaborators of SPIIRAL interested in socio-cultural and political concerns, regardless of the professions they are otherwise involved in, may be involved with the Sociocultural and Political Analysis Division. This division concerns itself with society, culture, politics, and civilization insofar as these thematic areas are relevant to psychoanalysis and, conversely, can be illuminated through a psychoanalytic lens with a view to maintaining a distance from ideological and institutional discourses of various sorts.
Current Associated Working, Study and Reading Groups
Working Groups:
Name: On the aesthetic
Convener: Marta Aleksandrovicz
Participants: Melissa Wright, Romain Pasquer, John Anspach, Marta Aleksandrovicz
Name: On Experience
Convener: Daniel Wilson
Participants: Daniel Wilson, Heidi Arsenault, Tracy McNulty and Fernanda Negrete
Reading Groups:
Name: Genealogy of GIFRIC writing
Convener: Heidi Arsenault
Participants: Heidi Arsenault, Jeffrey Librett, Cynthia Mitchell, Fernanda Negrete, Bettina Soestwohner, Charles Turk, Daniel Wilson
Name: Myth in America (Metapsychology in America I)
Convener: Nathan Gorelick
Participants: Nathan Gorelick, Christopher Chamberlin and Jeffrey Librett, Alexander Miller
Study groups:
Name: On Psychosis
Convener: Karen Benezra
Participants: Mihaela Bernard, Marisa Berwald, Jack Brennan, Jeffrey Librett, Tracy McNulty, Cynthia Mitchell, Alexander Miller, Fernanda Negrete, Richard Reinhardt, Charles Turk, Bettina Soestwohner, Stephen Sternbach, Bret Fimiani
Name: Child and Family group
Convener: Mihaela Bernard
Participants: Aileen Schloerb, Daniel Wilson, Heidi Arsenault, Mihaela Bernard, Dylan Lott, Scott Garlinger
Annual Study Days
Part I. Saturday, November 2, 2024
11am ET-2pm ET
Part II. Saturday, April 5, 2025
11am ET-2pm ET
Virtual
Zoom
At the Annual Study Days we hear reports from the working and study groups of SPIIRAL and discuss ongoing SPIIRAL projects.