BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CiviCRM//NONSGML CiviEvent iCal//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:CiviCRM_EventID_1712_2feac9dad692649d8dd92839917de16f@psychoanalysis.org.uk SUMMARY:A Political Mind Special - The American Dream DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n The American Dream\n \n René\;e Dan ziger\n \n Chaired by Angela Joyce\n \n Tuesday 4t h February \;2025\n 8:15pm - 9.45pm (GMT)\n \n Online via zoom\n Recording available for 1 week\ n \n Announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 Presi dential election in July\, President Joe Biden loo ked back wistfully at his path to the White House\ , and\, with a certain amount of emotion\, he decl ared:\n \n &ldquo\;Nowhere else on Earth could a k id with a stutter from modest beginnings in Scrant on\, Pennsylvania&hellip\;one day sit behind the R esolute desk in the Oval Office as President of th e United States. [And yet] here I am. That&rsquo\; s what&rsquo\;s so special about America. We&rsquo \;re a nation of promise and possibilities. Of dre amers and doers. Of ordinary Americans doing extra ordinary things.&rdquo\; (21 July 2024)\n \n Biden was speaking in a language familiar to many Ameri cans: the language of &lsquo\;rags to riches&rsquo \;\, and &lsquo\;log cabin to White House.&rsquo\; It is the language of the American dream: a dream that if you work hard and with sufficient determi nation\, you will achieve a better life.\n \n Ren& eacute\;e Danziger&rsquo\;s paper explores from a psychoanalytic perspective this American dream aft er spending time researching in the US\n \n Ren&ea cute\;e Danziger is a psychoanalyst in private pra ctice and a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic S ociety. \; She is a training analyst for the I ndependent Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Trai ning (IPCAPA) and for the Tavistock Child and Adol escent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy training.  \; She is a social scientist by background and has a D. Phil in Politics. \;\n \n Angela Joyce&n bsp\;is a fellow\, and Training and Supervising Ps ychoanalyst and Child Psychoanalyst with the Briti sh Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS). She trained as a child analyst at the Anna Freud Centre\, worked there for 20 years and was a founding member of t he pioneering Parent-Infant Project applying psych oanalysis to working with babies and their familie s and jointly led the child psychotherapy service. She has recently retired from full time analytic practice in London.\n \n \n Please note: This  \;lecture \;will be recorded \;and availab le for 1 week to all registered participants.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n REFUND POLICY: Tickets are fully r efundable until 14 days before the lecture\, after which time no refunds will be issued. \;\n \n Concession tickets are available\, for students\,  \;candidates and \;trainees. Please email  \;outreach@iopa.org.uk \;if you are unsur e if you qualify for a concession ticket.\n \n &nb sp\;\n \n Views and opinions expressed by speakers are their own and do not represent the views or o pinions of the Institute\, event organisers or oth er speakers. \;We expect delegates to respect the confidentiality of clinical material discussed in our events. The content must not be recorded\, conveyed or disseminated in any format and partic ipants must not share access to the event with non -registered participants..\n \n \n  \;\n \n &n bsp\; CATEGORIES:Lecture CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250204T201500 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250204T201500 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250204T214500 LOCATION:Online via Zoom\n United Kingdom\n ORGANIZER:MAILTO:outreach@iopa.org.uk URL:https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1712 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR