Waging Dialogue Forums

Prejudice and aggression are innate to the human condition, and can't be adequately contained until their origins and meaning are explored. WagingDialogue.org is developing a research methodology to create safe arenas in which members can become aware of their conscious and unconscious prejudices, consider the responses of others, and channel aggression more constructively.

PLEASE NOTE: After six years of hard work and active discussion, the forums have been retired. You may continue to read about the Waging Dialogue initiative on these pages and learn about our other innovative projects at changingourconsciousness.org.

The Waging Dialogue Forums
researching, developing and promoting psychoanalytic solutions to social conflict

Forum 1: Self vs. Other
- If I sincerely, powerfully believe something to be true and others around me don't, what, if anything, should I do?
Forum 2: Psychoanalytic Theory and Education
- Analysts and educators synthesize and decode analytic theory and develop its usefulness outside the profession.
Forum 3: Antisemitism and Islamophobia
- Gain insight into the nature of prejudice as it exists within ourselves.
Forum 4: Wealth, Poverty and the Middle Class
- Different socioeconomic groups discuss their personal and political worldviews.
Forum 5: Masculinity and Femininity
- What do these words mean, and what are the social, political, economic, personal and sexual consequences of gender role identity?
Forum 6: Creating a curriculum
- Members discuss the design of a new K-12 (and beyond) educational track in Human Understanding and Emotional Literacy.
Forum 7: Psychotherapy and Medication
- Psychoanalysts and psychopharmacologists collaborate toward the valid and useful integration of psychotherapy and medication.

The rules of the culture in these forums includes safeguards to maintain confidentiality and restrictions on new memberships which are designed to solidify group identity and ensure continuity. Read the User Agreement>>