IPTAR and The New School for Social Research
Are Proud to Present
ELIZABETH ANN DANTO, PH.D.,
“The Activist Core of Psychoanalysis”
November 14, 2015 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
On the 10 th Anniversary of the publication of Her Book “Freud’s Free Clinics-Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, l918-1938, Dr. Danto will present her on-going work that shows a strikingly different picture of Sigmund Freud and the early psychoanalytic movement. As she continues to probe archival and oral history sources (principally in Vienna), she has recovered the neglected history of the analysts’ intense social activism and the ways in which their commitment to treating the poor and working classes merged with the emancipatory nature of psychoanalysis itself. She will also introduce for the first time some of her newest work on Anna Freuds “Heitzing School” which closed in l932 but left a remarkable institutional and conceptual legacy. Home to Erik Erikson, Peter Blos and of course Anna Freud, the school was yet another Viennese contribution to the advancement of modern theories of human motivation, child development, adolescent psychology, self and identity, and the role of the school in family systems.
Elizabeth Ann Danto, Ph.D. is professor of social work Emeritus at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her book, “Freud’s Free Clinics” was awarded the Gradiva Book Award and the Goethe prize. She now lives in Vienna and is working on an exhibit “In the Best Interest of the Child- Anna Freud’s Vienna and Beyond” at the Freud Museum London 2017
MARTHA BRAGIN, PH.D. DISCUSSANT
Martha Bragin is Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and the Doctoral Program in Social Welfare at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is a member of the working group on the psychological effects of social marginalization and a fellow of the Research Training Program of the IPA as well as a candidate at IPTAR. For the past 30 years, Dr Bragin has served as consultant to governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations.
In discussing Professor Danto’s paper, Dr. Bragin will refer to the ways in which psychoanalysis as a liberation psychology spread, flourished and develops outside of the United States in the work of analysts leading with some of the work of analytic thinkers in South America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
ELIZABETH EVERT, LCSW DISCUSSANT
Elizabeth Cutter Evert LCSW is the co-director of IPTAR’s Clinical Center, and was the founder and co-director of IPTAR’s On-Site School Program. She is an associate member at IPTAR and has published papers on female adolescent development and on working with trauma.
She will describe IPTAR’s clinical programs as descending from the Freudian free clinics Dr. Danto describes, and will look at some of the challenges of continuing this work in the twenty first century.
Register here:
iptar.org/elizabethanndanto
Registration fee:
General admission: $40.00.
Students and Candidates: $25. or any contribution you can make
Location:
Wollman Hall
Eugene Lang College
65 West 11th Street
Room B500
New York, NY 10003