Migration and Displacement Trauma

Faculty: Michael O’Loughlin, PhD
Date: April 11, 2021
Time: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Tuition: $ 360
CE credits: 6

The trauma of origin, the trauma of the journey, and the trauma of settlement, particularly for undocumented persons, will be explored. Using frameworks from social theory, trauma theory, and psychoanalysis, as well as video and text narratives, the possibility of recuperating the subjectivity of the vulnerable migrant will be explored.

Michael O’Loughlin, PhD

Dr. Michael O’Loughlin is Professor in the College of Education and Health Sciences and Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University. He has authored, co-authored or edited ten books, most recently [With S. Arac-Orhun and M. Queler], Lives Interrupted: Psychiatric Narratives of Struggle and Resilience [Lexington Books, 2019]. Since 2018 he has been co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. He is editor of two book series, one in psychoanalysis, and one in childhood and youth studies. He writes about trauma, psychosis, migration, childhood subjectivity, schooling, psychoanalysis, race, and politics, and he directs the Adelphi Asylum Project. He is in private practice on Long Island, NY.

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