The work of the IARPP Muriel Dimen Fellowship reaches fruition at the upcoming Tel Aviv conference, when 2019’s four fellowship recipients will comprise a panel honoring Muriel’s belief that an interdisciplinary conversation with professionals working in different academic fields can open new vistas for relational theory and practice, intellectual inquiry, and political action.

Each fellow’s paper represents the culmination of a year studying relational psychoanalysis under the mentorship of leading IARPP members and applying this knowledge to their area of academic research. Moderated by Chana Ullman (Israel) and Sharon Ziv Beiman (Israel), the panel will touch on a diversity of topics from theoretical scholarly studies of myth and religion to the study of underserved and traumatized populations.

This year’s fellows have undertaken the following projects:

Ortal Slobodin (Israel) has explored the contribution of relational psychoanalysis to work done with Bedouin communities in the Negev (in collaboration with Sharon Ziv Beiman, Israel);

Ruth Kara Ivanov (Israel), a poet and scholar in the field of Jewish Kabala and mysticism, has analyzed the multiple selves of King David in Kabalistic literature, focusing on identity, gender and mysticism (mentored by Chana Ullman, Israel);

Mordechai Gofman (Israel) has studied religion as truth and truth as religion from a psychoanalytic perspective (mentored by Mitchel Becker, Israel); and

Maya Fening (Canada) has researched the impossible role of Eritrean refugee interpreters in the mental health encounter (mentored by Uri Hadar, Israel).

We hope you will make time to join us for this stimulating cross-disciplinary experience during the Conference.

Roberto D’Angelo (Australia) and Francesca Colzani (Chile), Co-Chairs Muriel Dimen Fellowship Committee

Roberto D’Angelo, PsyD (Australia)
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Francesca Colzani, PsyD (Chile)
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