Psychoanalysis in Solidarity with Gaza

We are members of psychoanalytic organisations in solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza, standing with Palestine against the genocide currently being waged by the Israeli state. This current onslaught, which has already resulted to date in the death of more than ten thousand people in Gaza, and many murders by settlers of Palestinians in the West Bank, is being conducted with the support of regimes in the global north that care nothing for human life. The Israeli state and those who deliberately abet it care nothing for those they portray as sub-human, and whom they tolerate, at best, as powerless victims.

We are also aware of instances of clinical practitioners inside the Israeli state siding with that state and causing obstructions in the contracted supervision of Arab psychotherapists, with consequent effects on already traumatised Arab patients. This is unconscionable complicity in oppression, a betrayal of the ethics of psychoanalytic practice. This context, as many international organisations and local Israeli organisations have declared for many years, is apartheid. Still worse are the proclamations of psychoanalysts inside and outside Israel that instrumentalise the 7 October attacks in order to support the ongoing invasion of Gaza.

Critical support does not preclude unconditional support for a people dispossessed of their land for 75 years (nor condemnation of the Hamas attacks). Ambivalence about organisations and slogans engaging in resistance does not warrant hypocritical ‘neutrality’ over the rights of the Palestinian people. Our task is to resist the ideological and state offensive carried out against the Palestinians. We call on our colleagues to dissociate themselves from the war on Gaza, and to state unequivocally that they will speak and act for Palestine. This is no time to be silent. Yes to resistance.

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In personal capacity, and with a commitment to argue with colleagues to win organisational support for this statement:

Agustín Palmieri, Laboratorio de Políticas del Inconsciente, Argentina

Alan David dos Santos Tórma, University of Brasília, Brasil

Amana Mattos, Espaço Oficina de Psicanálise, Brasil

Ana Claudia Fattori, Fórum do Campo Lacaniano da Região Metropolitana de Campinas adn Estação Psicanálise, Brasil

Ana Minozzo, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom

Andrew Samuels, Society of Analytical Psychology, United Kingdom

Angelika Golz, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Angie Voela, The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom

Anne Kane, Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy, United Kingdom

Antonella Marreiros, International Institute of Psychoanalysis, Center for the Clinical Arts and IF-SPFLF, Brasil and USA

Antony Froggett, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Avgi Saketopoulou, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, USA

Barry Watt, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom

Candy Alicia Solís Tapia, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México

Carolina Besoain, Colectivo Trenza, Chile

Carlos Gómez Camarena, Foro del Campo Lacaniano, México

Carlos Mendes Rosa, FaLa - Percurso de Freud a Lacan, Brasil

Chris Nelson, International Institute of Psychoanalysis, Center for the Clinical Arts and IF-SPFLF, Brasil and USA

Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker, Escola do Fórum do Campo Lacaniano, Brasil

Christine Christie, NI Institute for Human Relations, Irish Group Analytic Society, Ireland

Cleyton Andrade, Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise, Brasil

Daniel Guimarães, Prática Pública e Comunitária de Psicanálise no Jardim Miriam, São Paulo, Brasil

Daniel Mondoni, Coletivo Estação Psicanálise, Campinas, Brasil

David Ferraro, Lacan Circle of Australia, Australia

David Morgan, British Psychoanalytic Society, United Kingdom

David Pavón-Cuéllar, Cuerpo Académico en Teoría y Clínica Psicoanalítica, UMSNH, México

Denis Echard, The Guild of Psychotherapists, UK

Eliana Pinto, British Psychotherapy Foundation, United Kingdom

Er Linsker, New York

Erica Burman, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Farideh Dizadji, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Ferişde Ekşi, German Psychoanalytic Association, Germany

Fiona Parker, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Flor de María Gamboa Solís, Cuerpo Académico en Teoría y Clínica Psicoanalítica, UMSNH, México

Gabriel Tupinambá, Alameda Institute, Brasil

Gabriela Zita Cuatianquis Cerros, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México

Guadalupe Orozco Parra, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México

Gwion Jones, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, United Kingdom

Helen Omand, British Association of Art Therapists, United Kingdom

Ian Parker, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, United Kingdom

Iris Hefets, German Psychoanalytical Society, Germany

Isheh Beck, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, USA

Jairo Gallo Acosta. Círculo Psicoanalitico del Caribe y Analítica, Colombia

Jane Kivnick, LCSW & Psychoanalyst, USA

Jon Martyn, Share Psychotherapy, United Kingdom

Jordan Osserman, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom

José Fernando Patino Torres, Institute of Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brasil

Judith Deutsch, Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute, Canada

Jud Stone, Group Analytic Society International, United Kingdom

Judy Blumenfeld, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, USA

Julia Borossa, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Julia Kuhn, Institute of Group Analysis, South Africa

Julianna A. Pusztai, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, United Kingdom

Lauro Baldini, Fórum do Campo Lacaniano da Região Metropolitana de Campinas (em

formação) and Estação Psicanálise, Brasil

Laura Yaneli Albarrán Díaz, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México

Lluvia Fernanda Ledezma Castro, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México

Lorena Guadalupe Villalón Morán, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México

Lucia Corti, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, United Kingdom

Lynne Layton, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA

Manuel Alejandro Moreno Camacho, Nueva Escuela Lacaniana del Campo Freudiano Sección Cali, Colombia

Manuela Agüero, Colectivo Trenza, Chile

Marcela López Levy, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Marilú Contreras García, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México

Marcos Arenales, Psicanálise de rua São Carlos, Brasil

María Concepción Lizeth Capulín Arellano, CEMIF, México

Martin Kemp, British Psychoanalytic Association, United Kingdom

Martin Weegman, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Matthew Oyer, Psychoanalyst, The Greene Clinic, Brooklyn, USA

Michael Foulkes, Consultant Family Psychotherapist (retired)

Michael O’Loughlin, Adelphi University, USA

Mira Younes, Fédération des Ateliers de Psychanalyse, France

Molly Merson, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, USA

Monika Feuereisen, C.G.Jung Institut Berlin, Germany

Nadia Bou Ali, The Lacan School, San Francisco, USA

Nini Kerr, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, United Kingdom

Paul Atkinson, Philadelphia Association, United Kingdom

Paula Zalaquett, Chile

Pedro Ambra, Escola Tamuya de Formação Popular, Brasil

Philippa Marx, Westminster Pastoral Foundation, United Kingdom

Reem Shelhi, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Robin Tipple, Associate Member Group Analytic Society International, United Kingdom

Rossanna Echegoyén, Psychoanalyst and Activist, New York, USA

Salah Esmaeili, Iranian Critical Psychology Group, Iran

Sally Skaife, British Association of Art Therapists, United Kingdom

Safiya Bobat, Ububele Psychoanalytic and Educational Trust, South Africa

Sarah Blair Jenkins, MSW, LCSW, North Carolina, USA

Sophie K Rosa, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom

Sophie Mendelsohn, Independent Psychoanalyst, Paris

Steven H Knoblauch, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, USA

Sue Einhorn, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Suryia Nayak, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Susan Rudnik, Latimer Community Art Therapy, United Kingdom

Tahamy Louise Duarte Pereira, Clínic Aberta de Psicanálise de Santos, São Paulo, Brasil

Tales Ab’Sáber, Clínica Aberta de Psicanálise, Brasil

Teresa von Sommaruga Howard, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Thessa Guimarães, Psicanálise na Rua, Brasil

Vivienne Harte, Institute of Group Analysis, United Kingdom

Yahya Mayet, Ububele Educational & Psychotherapy Trust, South Africa

Yunuén Mariana Florián Ulloa, Red de Psicólogas Feministas-Socialistas, México

ORGANISATIONS

Escola Tamuya de Formação Popular, Brasil

Espaço Mutabis, Brasil

Psicanálise Na Praça Roosevelt, Brasil

Psicanálise na Rua, Brasil

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