A Post from C.T.C. (Current Traumatic Corona)

As the ebb and flow of the sea, so we have been in the world and as a Collective. The stormy years of Corona have instigated much relational psychoanalytic activity on Zoom, the internet and other cyber communication. And yet, there is a quietude that is enigmatic. As if a core aspect of our being and becoming is under attack and we need to lick our wounds alone.

Similarly, the Collective has been both very active and dormant. We have touched upon Corona in society and within our IARPP society – including successfully urging a place for Zoom participation in our recent IARPP Conference (as listeners, though not as speakers) for those who were unable or unwilling to fly to Los Angeles; the horrors and heroism of the Ukrainian struggle; and the catastrophic implications of the US Supreme Court upending Roe v. Wade.

We have not recently spoken of global warming (I fondly remember the colloquium on Searles and the non-human environment). There is so much. There is indeed too much. And we as a collective share and then try to garner new strengths. From where can we genuinely think anew while so much brutal unrest leaves us feeling we are alone?

Please feel free to join the collective and add your voice – each of your voices make up the multiple selves of the IARPP.

Mitchel Becker, Colloquium Chair

Mitchel Becker, Ph.D.
Raanana, Israel
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