A Political Mind Special - Gaza What Next?

A Political Mind Special - Gaza What Next?

Speaker: Gabrielle Rifkind

In discussion with Dr David Bell

Tuesday 29th October 2024
8:00pm - 10:00pm GMT

These discussions will be delivered remotely via Zoom.
Recording available for 1 week

Gabrielle Rifkind is the Director of Oxford Process. She is a group analyst, specialist in conflict resolution and an accredited mediator. Gabrielle combines in-depth political and psychological expertise with many years’ experiences in promoting serious analysis and dialogue. Her focus of work over the past two decades has been the Iran nuclear issue, the proxy wars in Syria and the Palestine-Israel conflict. More recently she has been working on the Ukraine/ Russia conflict on keeping lines of communication open between the warring parties. Believing passionately in preventive diplomacy ( as once people go to war it is difficult to resolve conflict) she has initiated a new project on how to prevent war in Taiwan. 

She is an author and frequent contributor to the media, with over 50 publications nearly always from a conflict resolution perspective.  She has written for various newspapers, online publications and academic journals, including; The Guardian, The Times, Prospect, The Independent, Open Democracy and the New England Journal of Public Policy and is the co-author  with Gianni Picco of  Fog of Peace: how to prevent war. Bloomsbury 2016. 

Dr David Bell retired from his consultant post at the Tavistock in 2021. At the Tavistock, he developed and led the Fitzjohns Unit a specialist service for the most complex and severe adult cases referred to the Tavistock. He is a past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He lectures and publishes on a wide range of subjects including the work of Freud, Klein and Bion, the understanding of severe psychological disorder. For his entire professional career he has deeply involved himself in interdisciplinary studies – the relation between psychoanalysis and literature, philosophy and socio-political theory and has lectured and written extensively in those areas. He set up and chaired (for about 15 years) a Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Study Group. He served two terms as Clinical and Academic Staff Representative on the Tavistock Council of Governors. Books include Reason and Passion, Psychoanalysis and Culture: a Kleinian Perspective, Living on the Border, Turning the Tide (on the work of the Fitzjohns Unit) and one small book, Paranoia. During his Professorial Fellowship at Birkbeck College (2012–13) he focused on different forms of degradation of knowledge and thinking. He is a leading psychiatric expert in immigration/asylum/human rights 

Over the last 4 years he has been deeply involved in thinking about the current debate over gender dysphoria in children and adolescents, trying to maintain thoughtful and psychoanalytic perspective in a highly toxic and politicised climate. He has published papers and given many lectures on this subject.

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