Psychoanalysis in Solidarity with Gaza
We are members of psychoanalytic organisations in solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza, standing with Palestine against the genocide currently being waged by the Israeli state. This current onslaught, which has already resulted to date in the death of more than ten thousand people in Gaza, and many murders by settlers of Palestinians in the West Bank, is being conducted with the support of regimes in the global north that care nothing for human life. The Israeli state and those who deliberately abet it care nothing for those they portray as sub-human, and whom they tolerate, at best, as powerless victims.
We are also aware of instances of clinical practitioners inside the Israeli state siding with that state and causing obstructions in the contracted supervision of Arab psychotherapists, with consequent effects on already traumatised Arab patients. This is unconscionable complicity in oppression, a betrayal of the ethics of psychoanalytic practice. This context, as many international organisations and local Israeli organisations have declared for many years, is apartheid. Still worse are the proclamations of psychoanalysts inside and outside Israel that instrumentalise the 7 October attacks in order to support the ongoing invasion of Gaza.
Critical support does not preclude unconditional support for a people dispossessed of their land for 75 years (nor condemnation of the Hamas attacks). Ambivalence about organisations and slogans engaging in resistance does not warrant hypocritical ‘neutrality’ over the rights of the Palestinian people. Our task is to resist the ideological and state offensive carried out against the Palestinians. We call on our colleagues to dissociate themselves from the war on Gaza, and to state unequivocally that they will speak and act for Palestine. This is no time to be silent. Yes to resistance.
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In personal capacity, and with a commitment to argue with colleagues to win organisational support for this statement:
Agustín Palmieri, Laboratorio de Políticas del Inconsciente, Argentina
Alan David dos Santos Tórma, University of Brasília, Brasil
Amana Mattos, Espaço Oficina de Psicanálise, Brasil
Ana Claudia Fattori, Fórum do Campo Lacaniano da Região Metropolitana de Campinas adn Estação Psicanálise, Brasil
Ana Minozzo, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom
Andrew Samuels, Society of Analytical Psychology, United Kingdom
Angelika Golz, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Angie Voela, The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom
Antonella Marreiros, International Institute of Psychoanalysis, Center for the Clinical Arts and IF-SPFLF, Brasil and USA
Antony Froggett, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Avgi Saketopoulou, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, USA
Barry Watt, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom
Candy Alicia Solís Tapia, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México
Carolina Besoain, Colectivo Trenza, Chile
Carlos Gómez Camarena, Foro del Campo Lacaniano, México
Carlos Mendes Rosa, FaLa - Percurso de Freud a Lacan, Brasil
Chris Nelson, International Institute of Psychoanalysis, Center for the Clinical Arts and IF-SPFLF, Brasil and USA
Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker, Escola do Fórum do Campo Lacaniano, Brasil
Christine Christie, NI Institute for Human Relations, Irish Group Analytic Society, Ireland
Cleyton Andrade, Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise, Brasil
Daniel Mondoni, Coletivo Estação Psicanálise, Campinas, Brasil
David Ferraro, Lacan Circle of Australia, Australia
David Pavón-Cuéllar, Cuerpo Académico en Teoría y Clínica Psicoanalítica, UMSNH, México
Denis Echard, The Guild of Psychotherapists, UK
Eliana Pinto, British Psychotherapy Foundation, United Kingdom
Erica Burman, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Farideh Dizadji, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Ferişde Ekşi, German Psychoanalytic Association, Germany
Fiona Parker, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Flor de María Gamboa Solís, Cuerpo Académico en Teoría y Clínica Psicoanalítica, UMSNH, México
Gabriel Tupinambá, Alameda Institute, Brasil
Gabriela Zita Cuatianquis Cerros, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México
Guadalupe Orozco Parra, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México
Gwion Jones, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, United Kingdom
Helen Omand, British Association of Art Therapists, United Kingdom
Ian Parker, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, United Kingdom
Iris Hefets, German Psychoanalytical Society, Germany
Isheh Beck, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, USA
Jairo Gallo Acosta. Círculo Psicoanalitico del Caribe y Analítica, Colombia
Jane Kivnick, LCSW & Psychoanalyst, USA
Jon Martyn, Share Psychotherapy, United Kingdom
Jordan Osserman, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom
José Fernando Patino Torres, Institute of Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brasil
Judith Deutsch, Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute, Canada
Jud Stone, Group Analytic Society International, United Kingdom
Judy Blumenfeld, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, USA
Julia Borossa, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Julia Kuhn, Institute of Group Analysis, South Africa
Julianna A. Pusztai, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, United Kingdom
Lauro Baldini, Fórum do Campo Lacaniano da Região Metropolitana de Campinas (em
formação) and Estação Psicanálise, Brasil
Laura Yaneli Albarrán Díaz, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México
Lluvia Fernanda Ledezma Castro, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México
Lorena Guadalupe Villalón Morán, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México
Lucia Corti, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, United Kingdom
Lynne Layton, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA
Manuel Alejandro Moreno Camacho, Nueva Escuela Lacaniana del Campo Freudiano Sección Cali, Colombia
Manuela Agüero, Colectivo Trenza, Chile
Marcela López Levy, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Marilú Contreras García, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México
Marcos Arenales, Psicanálise de rua São Carlos, Brasil
María Concepción Lizeth Capulín Arellano, CEMIF, México
Martin Kemp, British Psychoanalytic Association, United Kingdom
Martin Weegman, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Matthew Oyer, Psychoanalyst, The Greene Clinic, Brooklyn, USA
Michael O’Loughlin, Adelphi University, USA
Mira Younes, Fédération des Ateliers de Psychanalyse, France
Molly Merson, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, USA
Monika Feuereisen, C.G.Jung Institut Berlin, Germany
Nadia Bou Ali, The Lacan School, San Francisco, USA
Nini Kerr, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, United Kingdom
Paul Atkinson, Philadelphia Association, United Kingdom
Paula Zalaquett, Chile
Pedro Ambra, Escola Tamuya de Formação Popular, Brasil
Philippa Marx, Westminster Pastoral Foundation, United Kingdom
Reem Shelhi, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Robin Tipple, Associate Member Group Analytic Society International, United Kingdom
Rossanna Echegoyén, Psychoanalyst and Activist, New York, USA
Salah Esmaeili, Iranian Critical Psychology Group, Iran
Sally Skaife, British Association of Art Therapists, United Kingdom
Safiya Bobat, Ububele Psychoanalytic and Educational Trust, South Africa
Sarah Blair Jenkins, MSW, LCSW, North Carolina, USA
Sophie K Rosa, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom
Steven H Knoblauch, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, USA
Sue Einhorn, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Suryia Nayak, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Susan Rudnik, Latimer Community Art Therapy, United Kingdom
Tales Ab’Sáber, Clínica Aberta de Psicanálise, Brasil
Teresa von Sommaruga Howard, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Thessa Guimarães, Psicanálise na Rua, Brasil
Vivienne Harte, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom
Yahya Mayet, Ububele Educational & Psychotherapy Trust, South Africa
Yunuén Mariana Florián Ulloa, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México
ORGANISATIONS
Escola Tamuya de Formação Popular, Brasil
Espaço Mutabis, Brasil
Psicanálise Na Praça Roosevelt, Brasil
Psicanálise na Rua, Brasil
