This webinar invites participants to reflect individually and in small groups on what is evoked in us when we come up against destructive aspects of our own and others’ psyches.

Diana will draw on transgenerational trauma theory and the work of Elaine Scarry, whose book The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World raises questions about how to develop ways to maintain or restore connections with humanity in situations of intense violence and destructiveness.

Scarry E. (1995). The Body in Pain. The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford University Press.

Diana will pose questions such as:

• Is this process a private endeavour, a collective effort, or both?

• Does the capacity to restore or maintain the connection to humanity lie in the power of our imagination and/or the capacity to transform grief?

Guest Speaker: Diana Deaconu is a Certified Transactional Analyst who works as a psychotherapist in private practice in Bucharest, Romania. She has a master’s degree in anthropology and served for many years as an editor of the TAJ.

The webinar is open to practitioners from all fields of application. The timings are as follows:-

03.00 (Pacific Standard time)

06.00 EST (Eastern Standard time)

08.00 BRT (Brazil)

11.00 GMT/UTC (UK)

12.00 CET (Central Europe)

13.00 EET (Romania)

16.30 IST (India)

20.00 JST (Japan)

These events will not be recorded

Engaging with Destructiveness - Guest Speaker Diana Deaconu