Presentations

April 30, 2010. 
Author Interview with Spyros Orfanos 
and Book Presentation: In Her Own Image: 
Women’s Self-Representation in 
Twentieth-Century Art. 
New York University Postdoctoral Program 
in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

April 9, 2010. 
By Herself: Women, Solitude and Creativity. 
The Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture. 
Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, NYC.

March 15, 2010. 
Dancing with the Unconscious: 
The Art of Psychoanalysis. 
Long Island Psychoanalytic Society.

March 2, 2010. 
Mirror, Mask and Masquerade in the 
Art and Life of Frida Kahlo. 
Mt. Sinai Hospital Medical Center.

February. 25-8, 2010. 
Solitude and the Need for the Other 
in the Creative Process. 
International Association for Relational 
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. 
San Francisco, CA.

January 29, 2010. 
Mirror, Mask and Masquerade 
in the Art and Life of Frida Kahlo. 
The Friends of the A.A. Brill 
Library of the New York Psychoanalytic 
Society and Institute.

January 23, 2010. 
Book Signing and Author Interview with 
Isaac Tylim Art, 
Psychoanalysis and Society Project, IPTAR. 

November 22, 2009. 
Dancing with the Unconscious: The Art 
of Psychoanalysis. 
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists of Long Island.

November 17, 2009. 
Mirror and Mask: Frida Kahlo’s Art of 
the Body. 
Speaking Bodies Lecture Series. 
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.

October 29, 2009. 
The Mirror, the Mask and the Mirror 
in the Art and Life of Frida Kahlo. 
Long Island University’s 
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program.

October  24, 2009. 
Mirror and Mother. 
IPTAR: A Dialogue between Psychoanalysis 
and the Arts, NYC.

September 12, 2009. 
Living with Terror: Learning from Israel. 
Psychohistory Forum, NYC.

May 30, 2009. 
The Sexual Illusionist: 
Sexual Perversion and human Intimacy. 
Seattle psychoanalytic Society

May 29, 2009. 
Egon Schiele: A Self in Creation. 
Seattle Psychoanalytic Society.

May 26, 2009. 
Suffering in Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. 
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program 
in Long Island University’s CW Post Campus.

July 26, 2008. 
By Herself: Women, Creativity and Solitude. 
Joint International Psychoanalytic Conference. 
Vancouver, Canada.

May 3, 2008. 
Using Dreams to Understand Unconscious Fantasies. 
Adelphi University’s Postgraduate Programs 
in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. 
Garden City, NY

April 10, 2008. 
Freud’s Memory Erased. 
Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), 
American Psychological Association, NYC.

March 15, 2008. 
Paranoid Paradoxes. 
9th Annual Meeting of the International Society 
for the Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenia 
and other Psychoses, NYU.  

March 8, 2008. 
When Does Erotic Transference Cross the Line? 
The Spectrum of Erotic Transference. NY.

November 3, 2007. 
Dream Dialogues. 
NY Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis 
and Psychotherapy.

August 13, 2007. 
Transexual Dreams. 
Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary 
Psychoanalysis, Israel.  

May 2 & 9, 2007 
Workshop: Reaching Unconscious Fantasies 
through Dream Work. 
Institute for Psychoanalytic 
Training and Research, NY.

March 24, 2007. 
The Initial Analytic Session: 
An Invitation to Meaning. 
Adelphi University Postdoctoral program 
in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

March 21, 2007. 
Transsexual Dreams. 
NYU Postdoctoral Program 
for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

January 19, 2007. 
Beginning Again: 
A Discussion of Rivka Greenberg’s 
Eavesdropping on Dreams. 
NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis 
and Psychotherapy.

June 1, 2006. 
Violence against Women 
in the Work of Women Artists. 
Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, NY.

May 6, 2006. 
Egon Schiele: A Self in Creation. 
Institute for Psychoanalytic Training 
and Research and the Neue Galerie, NY.

April 29, 2006. 
Dream Work Seminar. 
Derner Institute for Psychoanalytic Training.


April 28, 2006.
Altered States in Addiction and Creativity. 
NYSPA Addiction Division Conference. 
New School for Social Research, NYC.

April 20, 2006.
Not in the Family: Family Romance Enactments 
in Psychoanalysis and 
Object Relations. Division 39 Spring Meeting. 
Philadelphia, PA.

January 26, 2006. 
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Anger. 
Long Island University, 
CW Post PsyD Program. Roslyn, NY.

November 17, 2005. 
Invited lecture at the New Jersey 
Psychoanalytic Society. Creative and 
Clinical Transofrmations of Trauma. 

October 29, 2005. 
Talk to IPTAR members on the Egon Schiele 
exhibition at the Neue Galerie, NYC.

January 28, 2005.
Invited discussant at NYU Postdoctoral 
Program on Psychoanalysis and Creativity.

April 9th, 2004.
Invited to speak to the Postgraduate Center 
for Mental Health for their annual lecture 
on Applied Psychoanalysis. 

March 28, 2004.
Gave workshop on creative transformations 
of trauma at a conference, Rupture and Repair, 
sponsored by the Institute for Psychoanalytic 
Research and Training in NYC.

March. 18-21, 2004.
Organized two panels for the Division 39 
(Psychoanalysis) meeting of the APA 
(American Psychological Association) to be held 
in Miami. 
The first panel on Women, Madness and 
Creativity will include a paper by me on 
French multimedia artist, 
Orlan. The second panel, on which I am a 
chairperson as well as moderator, 
The Therapy Dyad: Gender Concerns and 
Boundary Violations in Film and Life, 
will include a presentation by Christine 
diBenedetto on her dissertation research that 
I chaired. 

January 27, 2004.
Invited to speak at the New York 
Psychoanalytic Society on The Third Sex: 
Claude Cahun. 

November 12, 2003.
Invited to speak to Derner’s Postoctoral Program 
on creative and clinical transformations of trauma.

November 9, 2003.
Invited to speak to Psychoanalytic 
Practitioners of Long Island on 
creative transformations of trauma in 
art and clinical practice. 

June 7, 2003.
Put together panel with artist 
Carolee Schneeman for the conference 
Art Matters: Dialogues between 
Analysts and Artists. Mohank Mountain. 
Sponsored by the Regional Council of 
Psychoanalytic Societies.

April 2-6, 2003.
Division 39 of the APA meeting 
in Minneapolis. Invited speaker and 
chairperson for one panel titled 
Representations of women in film 
and art: Images of empowerment. 
My talk was on the art of Hannah Wilke. 
The second panel chaired was titled 
Creative and Clinical Transformations of 
Trauma. My paper on this panel was 
titled Private Pain in the Public Domain: 
Creative Transformations of Trauma.

March 19 & 26, 2003.
Perspectives on the Wolf Man. 
Beyond the Basic Curriculum at the 
Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and 
Research.

March 10, 2002.
Invited lecture, Living with Terror, 
Working with Trauma, given at 
Derner Institute’s Postdoctoral Society. 

June 3, 2002.
Invited lecture, Revisiting Ernst Kris’s 
concept of regression in the 
service of the ego in art, 
to the Long Island Psychoanalytic Society. 

July 27, 2002.
The Dead Mother in the Art 
and Life of Kathe Kollwitz, 
given at conference Deaths and 
Endings: Finality, Transformations, 
New Beginnings. Trinity College, 
Dublin, Ireland. 

June 6, 2001.
Invited lecture at the Great Neck 
Library on Women’s 
Self-Representation in Twentieth Century Art.

April 27, 2001.
Invited lecture, Claude Cahun: 
The Art of Multiple Selves, given at the 
International Symposium on Psychoanalysis 
and Art in Florence, Italy. 

March 17, 2001.
Conducted a workshop on 
psychoanalytic writing about art at 
a conference sponsored by the Institute 
for Psychoanalytic Training and Research on 
Women’s Anxiety of Authorship.

December 13, 2000.
Presented a case on a panel 
titled Working with Body Narcissism in the 
Clinical Encounter. At the winter meetings 
of the American Psychoanalytic Association 
at the Waldorf in NYC.