Rapaport-Klein Study Group

61st Annual Meeting Program - June 9-10, 2023
(see the Letter to Members, with brief biographical statements of presenters and abstracts of their talks)

FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2023

8:00 to 10.00 p.m.: Peter Coleman, Ph.D., "The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization" [See the introduction by Ellen Rees] [see Peter Coleman's 2021 book The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization, two of his articles in Time magazine (of January 6, 2022, and of October 20, 2022), and the following three web sites: The Way Out, Finding the Way Out, and The Hidden Tribes of America; see also a paper by Amanda Ripley in The Washington Post of Feb. 9, 2023, and a paper by Molly Ball in Time magazine of Feb. 4, 2021]

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2023

9:00 to 10:15 a.m.: informal go-round and introduction of guests

10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Michael Lewis, Ph.D., "The Emergence of Consciousness and the Development of Shame and Pride" [on-line] [See the introduction by Morris Eagle]

1:00 to 2:30 p.m.: Lunch

2:30 to 5.00 p.m.: Everett Waters, Ph.D., "Cross-Cultural Criticisms of Attachment and the Benefits of Charitable Interpretation" [See the introduction by Doris Silverman] [See the text and slides] [see two papers by Heidi Keller: "Universatily claim of attachment theory: Children's socioemotional development across cultures" (2018), and "Attachment theory: Fact or fancy?" (2021)]

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.: Cocktails at Prospect House (3 Prospect Hill Road)

SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2023

9:00 to 10:00 a.m.: Members' Business Meeting

10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., "More than One Can Live: Reconceiving Harm and Reparation in the Intersubjective World" [on-line] [See the introduction by Jim Fosshage]

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