Roger Frie

Areas of interest

Historical trauma, cultural memory, and moral responsibility related to racial violence, genocide, and the holocaust.

Education

• PsyD, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry
• PhD, History and Social Philosophy, Trinity College, Cambridge University
• MPhil, History and Social Philosophy, Trinity College, Cambridge University
• BA, History and Social Philosophy, University of London

Biography

Roger Frie is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University, Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, as well as Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology and Associate Member of the Seminar on Cultural Memory, Columbia University, New York. He is an academic historian and philosopher and a psychoanalyst and registered psychologist in private practice. He has published numerous interdisciplinary books, including the award-winning "Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust" (Oxford University Press). He lectures and writes widely on themes of historical responsibility, cultural memory and human interaction. He is editorial board member of "Contemporary Psychoanalysis," "Psychoanalytic Discourse" and "Psychoanalytic Psychology" and a former editor of "Psychoanalysis, Self and Context."