Panel 1

The Voices of Memory: Trauma, History, and Transmission

“Memory is the place where the dead continue to speak.”

– Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

13h00-15h00 (Moz time)

1. Trauma, Countertransference and Repetition Compulsion
Rosmarie Barwisnski – Switzerland

2. Inherited Wounds: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Transgenerational Trauma among Teenage Mothers and their Children in South Sudan
Arinze Kingsley Nworah – Nigeria

3. Sociocultural and Transgenerational Aspects: Legacies of Colonialism and Suffering
Elsa Couchinho – Portugal

4. Intersections of Racialized Sociopolitical Suffering in Childhood: Psychoanalytic Clinical Report                                  

Ricardo Marinho da Silva – Brazil

Chair: Sheila Melzak – United Kingdom

Panel 2

The Paths of Healing: Culture, Trauma, and Transformation

“That’s what the paths are for: to make us relatives of the future.”

Mia Couto

15h30-17h30 (Moz time)

1. Traditional Healing and Psychodynamic Therapy
Martha Schwartz Bragin – USA

2. Traumatic Future: How Colonial Violence Deprives the Subject of Their Future and Leads to Alienation
Roberto Beneduce – Italy

3. How Can We Explain the Phenomenon of Collective Fainting Spells among Girls and Peer Violence among Boys in Public Schools in Nacala Porto?
Domingos Joaquim Mucarreia, Marília Guambe and Boia Efraime – Mozambique

Chair: Marianne Rauwald (Germany)