NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
A. A. BRILL LIBRARY
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
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Saturday, November 10, 2012, 9 am – 12 noon, $10 Suggested Donation
Presents a panel discussion with five of the international contributing authors of the landmark publication
On Freud’s ‘Femininity’
Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD & Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD editors Karnac, 2010
Chair: Francis Baudry, MD (NYPSI) Panelists:
Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD (New York)
Emilce Dio Bleichmar, MD (Madrid)
Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD (Buenos Aires)
Mary Kay O’Neil, PhD (Montreal)
Barbara Rocah, MD (Chicago)
Discourse on women has changed greatly since Freud’s time. It coincides with deep changes experienced by women and the feminine position, at least in most of the Western world. It is common knowledge that contraceptives, assisted fertilization, advances in women’s rights, growing sublimation capacities and demonstrations of professional success have definitely changed ideas regarding an eternal and immutable feminine nature. We are interested in illuminating ways in which these changes have or have not influenced psychoanalytic debate in relation to the feminine. This implies renewing the question of what is authentically feminine and whether there is any essential truth concerning the feminine.
In this book we have assembled a group of contemporary psychoanalytic authors dedicated to studies on women and the feminine with the objective of displaying points of concordance and discordance in relation to Freudian proposals.
Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine. She is a member of CAPS (Center for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis). She is the founder and former Chairperson of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute’s Colloquium with Visiting Authors, where psychoanalysts from all over the world, with different perspectives in psychoanalysis, presented their points of view. She served for several years as the Foreign Editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis and is at present a member of the Committee for Foreign Book Reviews for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is in private practice and conducts private seminars and supervisions. Her published works include: “To Mother or Not to Mother: Abortion and its Challenges” (1992); “Discovering One’s Own Responsibility in A Judgmental System” (1996); “The Headless Woman: Scheherazade’s Syndrome” (1994). “The First Interview: From Psychopathology to Psychoexistential Diagnosis” (1997); “The Internal Interlocutor” (2002); “Malignant Passionate Attachments” (2004); and “Implicit Theories of the Psychoanalyst about Femininity” (2009). She has been the guest lecturer at many national and international institutions, presenting on topics including: “Expanding Worlds: Women’s Development after Forty-Five” (1995); “Working Through” (2007); “Coupledom”, “A Case of Inhibition of Creativity”, and “Winnicott’s 1968 Visit to the New York Psychoanalytic Institute” (2008); “The Synergizing Effect of Individual and Couple Therapy” (2009); “The Perilous Road to Hope” (2010).
Emilce Dio Bleichmar, MD (Universidad Buenos Aires), is a PhD in the programme “Principles and Developments in Psychoanalysis”(Universidad Autonoma Madrid); a full member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association; Director of and Professor in the postgraduate course: “Clinic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Child and His/Her Family”, ELIPSIS, teaching institution of Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid; Vice-President of the Forum Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society in Madrid, founded by her together with Hugo Bleichmar in 1995; editorial reader of the journal International Ferrum of Psychoanalysis (Sweden); and Member of the International Attachment-Network (IAN). She is the author of the following books: Fears and Phobias: Genesis Conditions on Infancy (1982); The Spontaneous Feminism of the Hysteria (1985) [Clara Campoamor Award Essay, Women Institute, Madrid]; Depression in Women (1991); Feminine Sexuality: From Child to Woman (1998); Gender, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity (1996) (edited with Mabel Burin); Manual of Psychotherapy of the Relation between Parent and Children (2005). She is also the author of a number of articles in edited books and specialized journals in Argentina, Brazil, the United States, and Spain.” (1984).
Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is also current chair (since 2005) of the Publications Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association; former chair of the Publications Committee of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and former member of the Editorial Board of the Reuista de Psicoaruilisis, Buenos Aires. She is General Editor of the IPA Publications Committee’s Series. She has been awarded the Celes Carcarno Prize for her paper: “The feminine position: A heterogeneous construction” (APA,1994). She is also the author of Lo femenino y el pensamientocomplejo (2001), published in English as Deconstructing the Feminine: Psychoanalysis, Gender and Theories of complexity (2007); co-editor of On Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia (2007) and of The Experience of Time (2009). She is also Editor, in Spanish, of: The Other in the Intersubjective Field (2004); Time, History and Structure (2006); Labyrinths of Violence (2008); and The Body: Languages and Silences (2008). She has also published numerous papers about femininity in books and in psychoanalytic journals in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Italian.
Mary Kay O’Neil, PhD, a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis (CIP), is in private practice as a psychoanalyst and psychologist in Montreal, Quebec. Currently, she is Director of the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis (Quebec English) and secretary/treasurer of the CIP. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, where she was on the staff at the University of Toronto Psychiatric Service and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Her psychoanalytic training was completed at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is author of The Unsung Psychoanalyst: The Quiet Influence of Ruth Easser and co-editor of Confidentiality: Ethical Perspectives and Clinical Dilemmas; On Freud’s “The Future of an Illusion”; and On Freud’s ”Beyond the Pleasure Principle”. Her research and publications include articles on depression and young adult development, emotional needs of sole-support mothers, post-analytic contacts, and psychoanalytic ethics. She has served on psychoanalytic ethics committees at local, national, and international levels, on the IPA finance committee, and as a reviewer for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is on the North American Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Barbara S. Rocah, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst at the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute, and Past President of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. She is a Member of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies. She has taught many courses and workshops, including Freud’s Clinical Theory, Advanced Freud Studies, and The Psychology of Women: Current and Historical Views. Her publications and presentations include “The Impact of the Analyst’s Pregnancy on a Vulnerable Child: A Case Presentation with Discussion by Miss Anna Freud” (2009); Links Between the Personal and the Theoretical: Some Insights from Freud’s Self-analysis That Influenced Later Conceptualizations (presentation, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2006); “The Language of Flowers: Freud’s Adolescent Language of Love, Lust, and Longing” (2002); Personal Reflections on the Continuing Significance of Infantile Sexuality to Pathogenesis (presentation to the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1987); A Pluralistic Conception of Gender Identity (presentation to the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1986); “Fixation in Late Adolescent Women: Negative Oedipus Complex, Fear of Being Influenced, and Resistance to Change” (1984).
Francis Baudry, M.D. is a Training & Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (NYPSI).
RSVP to admdir@nypsi.org
For more information, contact francisbaudry@aol.com
Educational Objectives: After attending this activity, participants will:
1) understand current controversies about femininity;
2) identify the many sources of bias concerning the psychology of women;
3) clarify the interface between concepts of primary masculinity and primary femininity;
4) indicate the contributions of women analysts who have studied the topic.
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