The Eroticized Demonic Object: Tales of the Demon Lover

OBJECT RELATIONS INSTITUTE CONFERENCE: THE EROTICIZED DEMONIC OBJECT: TALES OF THE DEMON LOVER

MARCH 14, 2009
LOCATION: LAFAYETTE GRILL
54 FRANKLIN STREET
(BELOW CANAL STREET, BETWEEN BROADWAY
AND LAFAYETTE)

Moderator: 
JEFFREY LEWIS, PH.D.: Board Member and Faculty Member for the Object Relations Institute, as well as Faculty Member at St. Johns University.  He is a reviewer for the American Journal of Psychoanalysis and has written a book review for Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler’s book, Mourning, Spirituality and Psych Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis.

Discussant:
JEFFREY SEINFELD, PH.D.:  Scientific Member of Object Relations Institute, and Author of multiple books on object relations theory, including The Bad Object and the Empty Core, Interpreting and Holding, book on Addictions (Jason Aronson)

Biographies of Panel Speakers:
LINDA HOPKINS, PH.D.: Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in private practice in Wayne, Pa. and Washington, D.C.  Author of the Comprehensive Biography of Masud Khan Entitled: The False Self, (Other Press, 2006) and various articles concerning the work of the British Object Relations Thinkers.
Conference paper: The Demonization of Masud Khan: Realities and Projections.
 
SUSAN KAVALER-ADLER, PH.D., ABPP, NCPsyA:  Founder and Executive Director, Training Analyst, Supervisor and Faculty Member of the Object Relations Institute.  She is the author of three books and 55 articles that deal with the demon lover theme and complex.  Author of The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge 1993, Other Press 2000); The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity (Routledge, 1996).   Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2003) in which she received the National Gradiva Award in 2004 from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis on.  Dr. Kavaler-Adler is also the recipient for a honorary doctorate in literature (Ph.D.) from Ignatius University for her scholarly studies on brilliant women artists and writers in her books: The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge 1993, Other Press 2000) and The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity (Routledge, 1996), She was made a Diplomate in Psychoanalysis (ABPP) in 2002 from the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association (Div. 39).  Conference Paper: Tales of the Demon Lover:  Seduction, Date Rape, and Aborted Surrender
 
DURING LUNCH AT LAFAYETTE GRILL:
Argentine Tango-1:30pm:  Professional Tango Performance.
Lunch, dinner and drinks can be purchased at Lafayette Grill.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION:

Registration by telephone: 212.268.8638 or email: robyn@orinyc.org REGISTRATION 9:30am (with Coffee and Muffins)
PANEL 10am-4:30pm  
LUNCH 12:15-2:00pm (Entertainment during lunch at 1:30pm)
PRE-REGISTRATION FEE (prior to March 1st) $75 AND $50 for students
DAY OF CONFERENCE FEE $85 AND $60 for students

The Object Relations Institute has the right to cancel, postpone or change the date of its events, the topic of presentations, and presenters without prior notice.

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