Conference Reports
Intergenerational Transmission Of Hate, War, And Violence
Report on a conference cosponsored by the International Psychoanalytic Association Committee on the United Nations (IPA/CUN) and the UN Department of Public Information
by Leide Porcu, Ph.D.
On Otherness
Friday March 16, 2007 conference speaker Vamik Volkan. Reporter Leide Porcu. On March 16th and 17th, The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research held a conference, On Otherness, at the Village Community School, in New York. The conference tackled the topic of otherness in and outside the consulting room. It included speakers such as Vlamik Volkan, Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Anni Bergman, Sheldon Bach, and Salman Akhtar. In this paper, I report on Vlamik Volkan's presentation, which was held on Friday evening and was introduced by Carolyn Ellman.