Online Seminar - Dana Amir & Merav Roth

Mind-Deadness to Mindedness

with

Prof Dana Amir & Prof Merav Roth

Thursday 4th June

In this seminar, two Israeli psychoanalysts — Prof. Dana Amir (PhD) and Prof. Merav Roth (PhD) — will present psychoanalytic reflections written in the aftermath of October 7, 2023 and the following war in Gaza, each approaching the radical impact of trauma from a distinct yet complementary perspective. Both explore the violent assault of catastrophic trauma on the mind’s capacity to sustain love, connection, meaning, and continuity — and the ways these vital functions may be reignited to prevent psychic collapse and promote productive mourning towards a meaningful future.

Prof. Dana Amir Biography

Prof. Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist, supervising and training analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, a full professor, and head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis and the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at Haifa University, a poetess and Psychoanalytic researcher. She is the author of 11 literary books and five psychoanalytic books, all published by Routledge. She was awarded literary and academic prizes, among them seven international psychoanalytic awards, including the prestigious Sigourney Award (2025).

Prof. Merav Roth Biography

Prof. Merav Roth (PhD) is a clinical psychologist, a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Israeli Psychoanalytic society and a cultural researcher at the school of therapy, counseling and human development at the University of Haifa. The founder and chair of three philanthropic clinics - Shti-VaErev (“Interweaving”) culturally sensitive therapy center; “The clinic for all” – providing free therapy to disadvantaged populations; and “FLM”, providing free long term therapy for those affected by October 7 atrocity – awarded the PACE award by the IPA. In 2024, Prof. Roth was awarded the international Sigourney Award for her “extraordinary interdisciplinary work on psychoanalysis and literature and her pioneering psychoanalytic study and treatment of trauma”.

Details

When: 8.00 - 9.30pm (Sydney time)

Where: Online via Zoom

Cost: $88 (GST included)

Discounts available for IPA members & candidates, and full-time students

Recording will be available for two weeks following the seminar