Statement: Naming Normalization at the APsaA Henri Parens Symposium

Join us in affirming our obligation to name genocide and to refuse the professional erasure that enables it.The Henri Parens Symposium, presented as “Resilience in Response to Violence & War,” centers Israeli loss while rendering the mass annihilation of Palestinians invisible. More than 73,000 killed, children targeted, famine engineered, a ceasefire violated over 1,500 times — and does not name it. It calls genocide 'war.' It grants an Israeli presenter the status of subject — representing an organized national psychoanalytic response to October 7, with a donation link to her organization — while reducing the Palestinian to an object: a clinical case. And it wraps all of this in 'resilience' — a framework that asks how people endure violence rather than why their children are being killed.

We name this as normalization: perpetuating genocidal settler colonialism.

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Do you agree with the following statement? By signing this letter, I am calling on psychoanalytic and mental health institutions to acknowledge the genocide on Gaza, break institutional silence, refuse normalization, and demand that events which erase the suffering of people being slaughtered are recognized as incompatible with the values and ethics of our professions — professions that demand we do no harm.

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