“Muslims and the West. A psychoanalyst reflects”.
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British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)
Description
Political Mind Special – “Muslims and the West. A psychoanalyst reflects”
Speaker: Fakhry Davids
Chair: David Morgan
Tuesday 1st October 2024
8:15pm – 9:45pm BST
These discussions will be delivered remotely via Zoom.
Recording available for 1 week
Fakhry Davids has lived all his life as a member of a minority Muslim community in the West – first in South Africa and for several decades now in the UK. He has previously written on Islamophobia in the West, and this presentation is based on an appreciation of how this can, through racist projection, distort the picture of Islam and Muslims that enters the mainstream. In this presentation he will reflect on his personal experience to share a picture of Islam and Muslims from within that community.
Fakhry Davids MSc (Clinical Psych) is a psychoanalyst in full-time clinical practice. He is a Fellow and Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society, a former Board Member of PCCA (Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities, www.p-cca.org) and served on APsaA’s Holmes Commission for Racial Equality in Psychoanalysis (Co-REAP). He holds honorary appointments in the Tavistock Clinic, the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London and the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, Essex University. He has written on different psychoanalytic topics, including Islamophobia and racism in the mind (Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
