Bearing the Unbearable: Living with Genocide and Other Human Atrocities
Conference with Dori Laub of Yale University and Sam Gerson of Alliant International University

Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:30 am - 3:30 pm
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street

Survivors of the Holocaust vowed that their horrific history would be remembered by the world, rather than repeated. Yet, the presence of genocide and mass destruction continues to haunt our time and shape our individual and collective destinies. Two psychoanalysts, expert in genocide and Holocaust issues, discuss the imperative to bear witness in the face of unbearable horror, asserting that the potential for healing and reconciliation lies in a courageous commitment to truth and compassionate understanding..

Sam Gerson, Ph.D. is a Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), and a founder and Past-President of both The Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP) and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). In 2007, The International Psychoanalytic Association awarded him the Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of Genocide and the Holocaust.

Dori Laub, M.D. is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is a co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale. He has published and lectured extensively on the Holocaust and on psychic trauma, its knowing and representation. He co-authored, with Shoshana Felman, the book Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History.

JCCSF Members $65 • Public $75 • Add $45.00 for CE Credit (Pricing includes meals)
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Co-sponsored by the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.