Hidden Narratives: Global Hystericization and the Commercial Sex Industry, Clinical and Technical Considerations

Date: Saturday, March 15, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Location: Virtual. A Zoom link will be provided prior to the event
Price: Free for IEA Students & IEA Members/ $50 For All Others

Overview:
Based on trauma studies insight into the transmission of trauma and how crimes of history embodied in preceding generations are accordingly embodied and carried by following generations, this workshop investigates how the Commercial Sex Industry (CSI) has become embedded in societal norms and thus impacts many patient’s lives in a variety of forms. We will begin with an overview of Freud’s (1905) treatment of ‘Dora’ in ‘Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria,’ shifting our attention from Freud’s focus on the symptoms of her illness, he termed a “petite hysteria,” to the enactments within the societal and family circle, well documented in the case, that constitute what contemporary Human Sex Trafficking literature would term “grooming” and “trafficking of a child for the procurement of sex.”

Facilitated By: Karen Morris
Karen Morris is a psychoanalyst, award-winning author, and dedicated advocate for social justice. She received the Gradiva Award for Poetry and Best Article for her work blending psychology, poetry, and activism. As an Ambassador of Hope for Shared Hope International, she works to end child sex trafficking. Karen is also a transmitted lay teacher in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition and co-founder of Two Rivers Zen Community, an online practice space.

2 CE Credits will be available upon request. Please inform us in the order notes at checkout if you want to receive CE credits.

No refunds are offered after registration is complete.