CASSE ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN RELATIONS PROGRAM NEWSLETTERAugust 2023
August 11, 2023
Psychoanalytic Listening and Learning with Aboriginal people in central Australia
FRIDAY 22 MARCH 2024 12:45 — 2:15 PM AEDT
To commemorate Prof Ed Harari’s outstanding contribution to teaching, research and service provision at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, the Psychotherapy Department has established the Ed Harari Seminar. This Memorial Seminar runs 5 or so times a year, inviting experts to speak on a topic of interest, relevant to psychiatry and mental health, and with reference to Ed’s broader interests in psychodynamics, psychoanalytic theory, and their interface with other disciplines including the humanities, neuroscience and the arts. In the first seminar of 2024, these two psychoanalytic psychotherapists and authors will discuss their extensive work with Aboriginal communities in central Australia.
Dr Craig San Roque
Dr Craig San Roque is a Sydney/Alice Springs based psychotherapist with 30 years engagement in collaborative Aboriginal activities in health, law, youth, intercultural arts and indigenous healer initiatives. His writings/seminar events explore existential themes of Coming To Terms with the Country, including the lnternational Psychoanalytic Association, 2021, podcast Mourning Melancholia and the Echo Effect, the BlackKnot/WhiteKnot psycho-cultural seminars and the award winning graphic novel A Long Weekend in Alice Springs. https://talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/craig-san-roque-mourningmelancholia-and-the-echo-effect/https://www.sankessto.com/product/the-long-weekend-in-alice-springs extract from A Long Weekend:
“Last night I was instructed to forget about trying to understand Aboriginal Culture. Its not my place. However, the crossover between cultures is my placethis is where I live. I try to understand the place where I live”.
Pamela Nathan
Pamela is a clinical and forensic psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist (VAPP) and past sociologist. She has worked in the public sector in clinical and forensic settings and in private practice. She has had a privileged working journey with Aboriginal people since the early 1980s in central Australia intermittently, having lived there for three years, and with Creating A Safe Supportive Environment (CASSE) for over a decade. She has published three books in the areas of Aboriginal health and the homeland movement and Dick Lechleitner Japanangka co-authored two of them- Health Business and Settle Down Country. She is a member of the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists (VAPP) and on the Committee of Australian Forensic Psychotherapy Association (AFPA). She has articles published in psychoanalytic journals on CASSE work and continues to supervise, teach, and publish in the psychological and psychoanalytic arena. www.casse.org.au.
