TRS AGM 

Sunday September 29th.  3-5.30pm on Zoom 

Please book your place so that we will know numbers.  

There will be two parts to the meeting. 

Part 1: 3pm A paper from Lynne Layton  will be presented with some time for responses and reflection.  

Who Speaks for Fromm in this Political Moment?  Psychoanalytic Institutions and the Authoritarian Center

Lynne Layton has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and in Clinical Psychology. She is a psychoanalyst and has taught and supervised at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is also a Corresponding Member of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Psychiatry Department at Harvard Medical School. Lynne is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory, and co-editor of 3 books: Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self; Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis; and Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting. From 2004-2017, she was co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and she is currently an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is a past-President of Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility and founded Reflective Spaces/Material Places-Boston, a group of psychodynamic therapists committed to community mental health and social justice. Lynne is on the organizing committee of a national Black-led reparations campaign. She is the author of the 2020 book Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes, winner of a 2021 book award from the American Academy and Board of Psychoanalysis.

Part 2: 4.30pm  AGM business 

An opportunity to join in on a dialogue about the future activities of TRS, what shape you might like it to take as well as the activities and study that you would like to see/collaborate on/create.