Hello and welcome to worlds a party girl gust of young a pioneering sway psychiatrys who is now seeing and now their rise to prominence more than 50 years after his death once remarked that we dont solve our problems but rather outgrow them this may be true for individuals but does it also apply to societies and if saw why do you know our societies despite all the economic and technological growth seem more info untile than ever while to discuss that im now joined by dr james hollis a Prominent Union psychoanalyst and author of the upcoming book living between worlds finding personal resilience in changing times dr hollis its a great privilege for me to talk to you thank you very much for your time my privilege. Used to be with you now let me start to be dick title of your upcoming book the 16th i believe to come out from under your pan changing times isnt that a bit of an oxymoron because history has never stopped evolving and the dynamics of personal development are that everybody ex
I carry with me in mid all the changes that happen around me and as far as i know you know also sad that any transformation demands as its precondition and being over world the collapse of an old philosophy off live but the people who have a stake in an old philosophy or who are doing well in an old world may find these not only deeply unpleasant but also threatening and sometimes they fight tooth and nail to force the old to change do you find it effective do you think one can stop or slow down a transformation once its sat in motion no we really cant set back change nor should we because its a natural evolutionary process but just to give you a quick example when i was a child there were very strong and fixed beliefs about what it meant to be a woman what it meant to be a man and all of thats been changing being the. Constructed over the last few decades and a priest people up but its also frightening to people who dont have a sense then of who am i what are what are my scripts what
The National History center cohosted this event. Once more, welcome everyone. Welcome to the Wilson Center, welcome to this washington history seminar. A seminar through which we try to provide at the Wilson Center in connection with our partners at the National History center, historical perspectives on international and national affairs. Im christiane offerman, i direct the history and Public Policy program here at the Wilson Center and i have the privilege to cochair with my College Professor eric carlson of George Washington university. This is a joint enterprise by the National History center and initiative of the American Historical Association, directed by professor dane kennedy, i dont know if dane is with us today. Joint initiative between the National History center and the history and Public Policy program here. Were in our ninth year of holding these sessions every week during the semester, mondays at 4 00 p. M. And i hope to see many of you again for future sessions. Let m
Seminar we try to provide. I am christian ostermann. I direct the policy center here at the Wilson Center and i have the honor of cochairing this with my colleague eric arnesen, from washington university. This is a joint initiative between the National History center and the history and Public Policy program here. We are in our ninth year. I hope to see many of you again for future sessions. Let me thank the Lepage Center for public interest, as well as the George Washington history department. We also want to thank a number of anonymous donors who make these meetings possible and we welcome contributions from all of you in our audience. Details are in the back of the flyer. A couple people who do the heavy lifting behind the scenes. Rachel wheatley, the assistant director of the National History Center Rachel are you here today . Where are you . Thank you. As well as our talented interns, who you will meet during the q a. They will help with microphones. We finally want to acknowledg
Times that are changes for ourselves crises of understanding of believe the roadmap that we were following etc its just that we live in a particularly time of great disruption of what people thought were fixed beliefs fixed structures and fixed understandings of self and world so the real question is how does anybody personally survive and adapt but also maintain a sense of Core Integrity during those changes that inevitably happen to us now i know that psych psychologists and even psychiatrists often see crisis and conflicts as focal points when long story problems and grievances finally get a chance to be addressed when people and societies renegotiate the terms of their coexistence doesnt that make crises not only inevitable but also healthy well to a degree some crises are brought up. By traumatic events in history in our culture or in our personal lives many times we find ourselves having outlived our assumptions or not fitting within the structures of belief such as our family su