PSYCHOANALYTIC BROOKLYN: “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” Presenter: Tina Marie Dale, LSCSW Discussant: Kimberly S. Kleinman, MS, LCSW Thursday, April 30, 2026 8:00-9:30pm EDT Online via Zoom 1.5 CEUs Available
This paper will present clinical material in the form of brief narratives and vignettes while posing difficult questions for the analytic community to consider. I hope that listeners can consider some, if not most, of these questions on a personal professional level. A key question is whether emotional and professional confraternization occurs within the analytic community. Throughout this paper, when I use the term confratricide, I am referring to the emotional and professional killing off of colleagues, rather than literal physical killing. What is our part when such problems occur within psychoanalytic centers, institutes, and larger organizations? Do we participate by increasing splitting? Do we address the difficulties at deeper levels, asking what causes the collegial splitting? Do all members at the local, national, and international levels participate in confratricide in varying degrees? Continue reading CFS “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” 4/30
The Academic Events Committee Presents: A Wrinkle In Time: A Series that will Consider both the Psychic Challenges and Opportunities for Generativity and Transformation in Later Stages of Life
