1.5 CEs are available for New York State psychologists, social workers, licensed mental health counselors and psychoanalysts.

*Jess Ghannam's biography → on the "Speaker Series" page*

Dr. Ghannam will discuss his work as a psychoanalyst in Gaza, developing community mental health clinics. teaching psychoanalytic theory, supervising trainees, and doing psychoanalytic case conferences there for over 25 years. He will discuss his experience of being a psychoanalyst in the midst of war, occupation, and settler-colonialism and what spaces analysts negotiate during periods of political, social, and economic destruction of marginalized communities, especially in Palestine. A perceived dilemma for all analytic communities centers around the questions of place, space, and role during the contemporary catastrophic destruction of communities -- do we as analysts have a role? What is that role? How do we negotiate that role? What spaces can we engage in? The most influential theorists in my work have been Freud, Lacan, and Fanon.