Two seminars from Ginna Clark (USA) followed, in August: Primary Speech and the Silencing of Sexuality <\/em>and Particularizing and Finding Meaning in Pornography<\/em>. Ginna\u2019s sensitive and complex presentations stimulated lively and engaged discussion.<\/p>\n In October, Steven Stern (USA) joined us for two seminars on Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing <\/em>and Force Field Transformation and Therapeutic Action. <\/em>Unsurprisingly, these seminars proved very popular and timely, as the colloquium discussion of Dr. Stern\u2019s Airless Worlds<\/em> paper began shortly after.<\/p>\n We finished the year with two presentations entitled Moving Forward From Irreparable Harm, <\/em>from two of our immediate past presidents, Gerard Webster and Roberto D\u2019Angelo.\u00a0 Both drew on psychoanalytic complexity theory to discuss and consider treatment implications in work with two controversial phenomena. Gerard spoke of his work with those who sexually abuse children; Roberto considered different ways of conceptualizing gender dysphoria, transitioning, and <\/em>de-transitioning. Both presentations were complex, sensitive and very moving.<\/p>\n It is spring now in the southern hemisphere, and we are entering \u201cthe silly season,\u201d as we call it, as all the holidays and our long summer approach. At present, there is no community transmission of Covid in Australia, and many of the onerous restrictions on gatherings and travel are being lifted. At the same time, we are all extremely apprehensive about a repeat of the terrible bushfires of the 2019-20 summer.<\/p>\n Annette Conradi, President<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Annette Conradi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":13,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[76],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-9863","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","issuem_issue-bulletin-dec-2020"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/conradiphoto1115w.jpg\")
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