The Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the IPA present Images of Women
When: Friday evening October 5 & Saturday October 6, 2012
Where: Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
Throughout history, women have been experienced as objects of adoration, attraction, and horror. This conference brings together an internationally distinguished group of female psychoanalysts to examine iconic images of women in art and literature, as well as intrapsychic images of women in clinical material. We will explore what these images tell us about unconscious perceptions of women, and the powerful impact they have on how women experience themselves throughout the life cycle.
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The program includes:
Laurie Wilson (NY, NY) on The Female Body in Art Adoration, Attraction, Horror
Cecile Bassen (Seattle, WA) on Coming of Age: Depictions of Women in Fairy Tales
Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp (Kassel, Germany) on The Second Change: Menopause as Crisis and Chance
Mariam Alizade (Buenos Aires, Argentina) on Verbal Incest and Its Psychic Consequences
with discussants Arlene Kramer Richards, Phyllis Tyson, Maxine Anderson, and Frances Thomson Salo
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Pre-conference events include an art salon the preceding evening at the Frye Museum.
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Brochure with additional information on the conference, pre-conference events, online registration, and hotel discount is available at www.spsi.org. There is a substantial discount for early registration.
For questions, contact victoria@spsi.org or 206 328-5315
Cecile Bassen, MDcbassen@hotmail.com