Save the Date: “The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women” in Washington, DC

Save the Date: “The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women”
Weekend Conference, March 4 – 5, 2016, Friday evening through Saturday evening, Reception: Saturday evening
Location: American University Katzen Arts Center

Sponsored By:
The International Psychoanalytical Association Committee of Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP)
The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
The Contemporary Freudian Society

The Baltimore-Washington Center for Psychoanalysis
The Washington Center for Psychoanalysis

Topics include:

– Human and sex trafficking – ApsaA/UN Committee: Vivian Pender, Psychoanalyst and award winning film maker Diana Romero

– Missions both social and medical to third world countries for genital mutilation and rape: Katalin Roth, Physician

– Intervention with young women victims of child marriages and abuse: Raquel Berman, Psychoanalyst

– Analytic case presentations:

Signals in the violent man and internal world of the women: Donald Campbell

The Primitive Maternal Imago in the Apres Coup of Female Patient

and Female Analyst: Rosine Perelberg

– College campus violence against women

– Contemporary Art Depictions by women of violence against women:

Janice Lieberman, Psychoanalyst/Docent

– Katzen Center for the Arts Exhibit – Women Artists with welcome

from Director Jack Rasmussen

– Pre-Colombian Images of Women. Moises Lemlij

– “Traces in the Wind” play – Playwright Gail Humphries, drama of women

Holocaust survivors’ courageous creativity

– Welcome by Alexandra Billingshurst, Vice President IPA, and Peter Starr,

American University Dean of Humanities

– Psychoanalytic commentary

– And more

CEU’s will be offered

Presenters hail from London, Peru, Brazil, Mexico,

California, New York, and Washington, DC

Planning Committee:

Paula Ellman, Chair

Nancy Goodman, Associate Chair

Robin Dean, Assistant Chair

Justine Kalas Reeves, Assistant Chair

Margarita Cereijido

Joy Kassett

Lizbeth Moses

Carla Neely