News and articles 
In the weeks leading up to the Symposium we provide viewers with an outline of the developing programme and preview the submissions that will become its papers, workshops and plenaries. Its themes and topics will be opened for debate on this interactive website and we welcome an active exchange in advance of the event. By the time you arrive many of these exchanges will be in the air amongst us. The Symposium theme, Inaugural Lecture, Four Keynote Plenaries, and the first four of previews from the programme, are all now available. Read on and join our debate online.
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- Psychotherapy, Truth and Reconciliation: A Group Analytic Perspective: John Schlapobersky, Programme Chair, GAS Symposium 2011.
- Inaugural Address: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Transforming Negativity into Positivity. Justice Albie Sachs. Formerly Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
- Keynote Lecture 1: Killing Time: A day in the life of a group therapist in a high secure hospital. Gwen Adshead, Group Analyst and Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist.
- Keynote Lecture 2: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." Dream-Telling and Beyond - In Search of the Transpersonal. Robi Friedman, Group Analyst and Chairman, Israel Institute of Group Analysis.
- Keynote Lecture 3: From Conflict To Recognition: Cultural Transformation Through Group Supervision in Guatemala. Elisabeth Rohr, Group Analyst and Professor of Intercultural Education.
- Keynote Lecture 4: Towards Good Practice in Troubled Times: Group Therapy in a University Teaching Hospital in Toronto. Molyn Leszcz, Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.
- News from Norway on Training: How North Sea Oil Revenue Was Converted to Group Analysis in Norway: Thor Kristian Island, Director, IGA (Norway).
- Analyse This! The Egyptian Revolution 2011, in the Light of Group Psychology, Group Psychotherapy and Neurobiology: Dr. Mohamed Taha, Lecturer in Psychiatry & Group Therapist, Department of Psychiatry, Minia University Hospital, Egypt.
- Foulkes and Lacan - Lacanian Perspectives on Group Work and The Social Unconscious: Macario Giraldo and Dieter Nitzgen, Chair, Scientific Committee, GAS.
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