Citation

Orange DM. Psychoanal. Self Context 2018; 13(4): 335-341.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/24720038.2018.1500824

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This discussion makes two comments to extend Philip Cushman's prophetic challenge to the "psy" disciplines' participation in, and acceptance of, the Bush torture program. It makes a link to a long and shameful history of silence and complicity in psychoanalysis. Second, it advocates reading history as an ethical project parallel to the learning of developmental history in psychoanalytically inspired psychotherapies. What we do not remember and work through, we will surely repeat. Cushman forces us to remember and work through.

Language: en

Keywords

colonization; Cushman; legal; silent; slavery; torture