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In this article I suggest that there is a confluence of perspectives between Gandhian nonviolence and the Kleinian depressive position. Whereas nonviolence refuses the kind of polarization between and among people that enables violence, the depressive position posits an underlying commonality between and among people that can be ruptured by defensive disavowal and dissociation. This confluence points to an underlying parallel between healing approaches, East and West. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article suggests that psychoanalysis can take place both in the private office and out of the office in community-based settings. It provides historical background about the way in which psychoanalysis came to be thought of largely as an office-based practice for an affluent, culturally specific clientele. The article describes efforts at training candidates and students in the use of spontaneously occurring interactions in community-based settings in a range of cultural and socio-economic contexts, in order to illuminate unconscious interpersonal and intra-psychic dynamics. It suggests that the mentalization fostered by psychoanalytic processing of these interactions can provide an important protective element to an expanded range of people against the inter-generational transmission of trauma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]