Dr Rafah Nached, Syrian psychologist and psychoanalyst, was taken by the Syrian security forces on 10 September when they mistook her weekly group discussion meetings for political subversion. Rafah, 66, had teamed up with a Jesuit Priest to help people of all kinds of backgrounds and beliefs to find a way to articulate anxieties arising from their alarming context. Rafah is in solitary confinement and a Judge recently rejected a request for her acquittal. Amnesty International is aware of her case, and the European Parliament is due to debate it on Thursday 27th October. Please write immediately to your MP and MEP (Link: http://www.writetothem.com/) to urge them to act to free Rafah Nached and return human rights to Syria. For more information on this click http://rafahnashed.blogspot.com/
Psychoanalysis is threatening to would-be patients, clinicians and authoritarian political and religious regimes. By creating space for thought and reflection human beings are able to think all sorts of disturbing thoughts. No wonder psychoanalysis is deemed dangerous.
Viva Freud! Viva Psychoanalysis! Viva freedom of thought!
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