COPRESENTED BY THE PITTSBURGH PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER,THE DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR MIGRATION, DISPLACEMENT AND COMMUNITY STUDIES
Friday, March 22, 2024
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Duquesne University - Lecture Room 1, Rockwell Hall
600 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
Refreshments will be served.
THIS PRESENTATION IS OFFERED FREE OF CHARGE.
Note: 2 CEs will be available for Psychologists, Social Workers and other Licensed Therapists.
This presentation utilizes psychoanalytic ethnography, a qualitative research method in psychology, to elaborate on the experience of time among Afghan asylum seekers in Greece. On the basis of ethnographic evidence obtained during fieldwork in Greece, this paper argues that temporality, in the case of psychic functioning, is based on non-linear, circular dynamics in which past and present experiences, affects, and traumas are in a continuous unconscious dialogue and constantly inform each other. This allows the past to be "retranscribed" in its deep meanings and intimate significance, and the present to acquire enhanced worth and connotations.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will identify two features of psychoanalytic ethnography exemplified in the research on the experience of time among Afghan asylum seekers.
2. Participants will explain the concept of temporality as based on nonlinear, circular dynamics in which past and present are in continuous unconscious dialogue.
About Our Presenter:
Andrea Chiovenda, Ph.D., is a psychological and psychiatric anthropologist who specializes in psychodynamic and clinical ethnographic research. He has worked with Pashtun men in south-east Afghanistan, and in Greece with Afghan migrants to explore the psychic dimensions of the migrant condition. He is the author of Crafting Masculine Selves: Culture, War and Psychodynamics in Afghanistan (Oxford U. Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Boyer Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology for its contributions to psychoanalytic anthropology. After receiving his Ph.D. in anthropology from Boston University, he spent several years as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duquesne University in the Department of Psychology.
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