I will be presenting this paper as part of the Two Way Learning Webinar Series offered by Australian Institute for Psychoanalysis. Here is the link to the series.
https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au/two-way-event
The title of my paper centres on an incident where I became ill after inadvertently watching a sacred woman’s dance. I was then healed by the women performing another dance. One result, captured by Polly’s comment, was that I was now immune from women’s Law, it could not touch me.
To the contrary, my experiences in Aboriginal Australia have touched me deeply. For nearly forty years, I have struggled with how these experiences sit with my western upbringing.
Referring to the work of Winnicott, Bion and Ogden, I explore the possibility of a communication between psychotherapy and Indigenous cosmology.