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Psychoanalysis of Conscience a Call to Resign by Palestine Mental Health Networks

PLEASE TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW AND SEND YOUR LETTER TO THE UN OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISER ON THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR.

We are calling for a mass exodus from the IPA. 

What does this involve? Resign from the IPA, tell them why you’re resigning, and make your resignation public by posting on professional listservs or social media. Tag us so we can keep people informed.

Why withdraw? The IPA has invoked “legal constraints” to avoid naming the genocide in Gaza — yet found no such constraints when condemning Russia. It has platformed voices that pathologize Palestinians but has welcomed no event speaking to concerns so many of us share about Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian rhetoric within psychoanalysis. And it has echoed language describing Gaza as a war of “light against darkness” — a phrase Israeli officials use to cast Palestinians as a civilizational enemy, as darkness itself. An institution that does all this while claiming neutrality does not deserve our membership. Resigning is the least we can do.

Continue reading at https://www.pmhn-international.org/psychoanalysis-of-conscience-a-call-to-resign

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Open Letter From “Psychoanalysts Talk Back” Opposing the Palestinian Genocide, Addressed to Psychoanalytic Societies, Institutes, and Organizations

PLEASE TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW AND SEND YOUR LETTER TO THE UN OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISER ON THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR.

  1. Despite the fact that this barbarity is being live-streamed, making this the most documented-in-real-time genocide in human history, our professional organizations have failed us by not naming what’s occurring -naming being one of the utmost values of psychoanalysis. Not only have they proceeded with business as usual, betraying some of the most important ethical principles of bearing witness, they have used psychoanalytic concepts (such as “splitting”) to actively deter – and even pathologize – psychoanalysts from using analytic ideas to understand this unfettered violence.
  3. If no one else will do it, Psychoanalysts Talk Back will.
  5. We invite psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic candidates, psychoanalytic therapists, and anyone interested in psychoanalysis to sign this letter in order to: express how heartbroken and outraged we are by the ongoing and horrific conditions of death and land theft in Gaza and by our institutions’ lack of outspoken opposition; stand in solidarity with our Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, and Yemeni colleagues, who have been made to watch their organizations mount events that justify Israeli violence, abandoning ethical commitments to human rights; and recognize the pain experienced by many of our anti-Zionist Jewish colleagues.

… The International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) as the formal analytic body and individual and Psychoanalytic Societies Institutions pledge to uphold the principles of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) as outlined by USACBI or PACBI and as called for by Palestinian civil society and cultural organizations.

Continue reading at https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRFPUh278gM2qpA2hNl_NCUiukAfXZuxvB3NsC_-rRt8PWYwKxsp5B9NDlIqgxFga9gA2th2fD_nfVw/pub