Tag: USACBI

54. 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.
56. If no one else will do it, Psychoanalysts Talk Back will.
58. 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.