Healing on the Move launches its first psychoanalytic study group, which offers a forum for collective reading and reflection on psychoanalytic texts in relation to contemporary contexts shaped by war, colonization, and forced displacement. The group convenes to engage with foundational texts in English while remaining attentive to the diverse social, political, and cultural realities its members experience.

This initiative also represents a step toward establishing a community of practice, enabling participants to engage in shared study and ongoing reflection, exchange, and mutual support. The group seeks to foster an environment where ideas are discussed alongside clinical and lived experiences, facilitating sustained dialogue that integrates reading, practice, and the complexities of contemporary contexts.

We will read

• Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents.

• Sigmund Freud: Mourning and Melancholia.

• Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Seminar XI, selected chapters)

• Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks (Chapter 5: “The Fact of Blackness”)

• Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth (Chapter 1: “On Violence”)

• Samah Jabr: Behind the Frontlines: Essays on Trauma, Resilience and Resistance (selected essays)

• Samah Jabr: “Sumud: Soul of the Palestinian”

Joining these reading groups involves no fee and requires no prior knowledge.

The reading group sessions will take place every Tuesday at 19:00 Central European Time (CET), starting on May 5. Each session will last 90 minutes.