Forthcoming Events

• Institute of Psychoanalysis The Political Mind: Cassandra's Message! Nuclear Threat and Climate Change Catastrophe. The Engame? Speakers: Charles Strozier (US) and David Morgan (UK). Chaired by IPA president Harriet Wolfe (US). Panel: Jill Gentile (US), Phil Stokoe (UK), Sally Weintrobe (UK), and ecologist Andrew Gaines (AUS). Friday, October 7, 2022,  6:00 – 8:00 PM BST (1:00 – 3:00 AM EDT)
  Online via Zoom more information
• 43rd Annual IAPSP Conference Plenary IV: Living and Practicing When the World Feels Uncertain Traumatic temporality, radical possibility, and transsubjective interbeing Speakers: Jill Gentile, Ph.D. and Koichi Togashi, Ph.D., L.P.
  Discussant: Peter Kaufmann, Ph.D.
  Moderator: Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D. Sunday, October 23,  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
  Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC info  |  brochure (PDF)

Selected Paper Presentations and Professional Workshops

• The American Psychoanalytic Association 111th Annual Meeting Why Don't We Regulate Speech? The Case of the Comics In his illustrated lecture, Pulitzer-prize recipient Louis Menand will reconsider the "comic book inquisition" of the 1950s. Were comics sending a message that was damaging to certain groups? What is the social benefit of First Amendment absolutism? Professor Menand will touch on Supreme Court obscenity law and the case of Birth of a Nation, which might be thought of as analogous to the comic books problem. The question of whether anti-Communist inquiries were a form of censorship damaging to mental health was a concern of psychiatric organizations in the 1950s. The four respondents will explore issues of censorship, civil liberties, civil rights, mental health, the law, gender, race, popular culture, and where psychoanalysis fits into these crosscurrents. Audience participation will be encouraged. Chair: Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., LCSW (Gainesville, FL)
  Presenter: Louis Menand, Ph.D. (Cambridge, MA)
  Discussants: Aisha Abbasi, M.D. (West Bloomfield, MI); Vera J. Camden, Ph.D. (Cleveland Heights, OH); Jill Gentile, Ph.D. (New York, NY); John Martin-Joy, M.D. (Watertown, MA) Friday, June 3, 2022,  2:30 – 5:30 PM
  Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA info  |  program (PDF)
• The New School Philosophy Colloquium Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis Does critical social theory need psychoanalysis, and if so, what for? In her book, Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2021), Amy Allen addresses this question, offering a new interpretation of psychoanalysis that mobilizes the insights of Freud, Klein, and Lacan for critical social theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School. In this book panel, Allen will discuss this project with psychoanalysts and critical theorists Joel Whitebook, Gila Ashtor, and Jill Gentile. The conversation will address the ongoing relationship between psychoanalysis, critique, and politics, with a focus on how psychoanalysis challenges and enriches critical theory's understandings of subjectivity, progress, emancipation, and social transformation. Friday, March 25, 2022,  6:00–8:00 PM EDT
  Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall Room A407
  66 W 12th St, New York, NY Event information
• Ceres Gallery Hysterical Artist Talk / Z00m Speakers: Jill Gentile, Stefany Benson, Kate Novack, Susan Grabel. VIRTUAL : Wednesday, January 12, 2022  7:00 PM EST Ceres Gallery
• Psychoanalysis and Politics Crises and Transmission Why decolonization and freedom of speech need feminine law A dialogue with Barnaby Barratt. If psychoanalysis is to fulfill its potential as a decolonizing theory and praxis, it must subject itself to its own post-colonial critique so that we might reveal what has remained effectively obscured or ‘naturalized’ within our discourses. Such critique exposes the political and clinical urgency of appealing to an unwritten, found (in the Real) feminine law, beyond psychoanalysis’s conventional laws of the father. VIRTUAL : Wednesday, November 24, 2021  6:00 PM GMT (1:00 PM EST)
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• Association for the Psychonalysis of Culture & Society 2021 APCS Annual Conference Mourning Versus Loyalty and Spite Part of Parallel session 21, "Mourning versus Nostalgia and Paranoia." Chairs: Stephanie Swales, Carol Owens. Other papers will be presented by Derek Hook, Stephanie Swales, and Carol Owens. Saturday, October 23, 2021,  12:00–1:30 PM EDT
  This conference will be VIRTUAL. Conference information
• The William Alanson White Institute Clinical Education Meeting Confusion of Wills between the Teacher and the Student: Psychoanalytic Theory and the Persistence of Gendered Abuses in Psychoanalysis Speaker/presenter: Ali Shames-Dawson, PhD; Discussant: Jill Gentile, PhD. This paper is an exploration of how power and theory may work together to increase shame and self-doubt in students of psychoanalysis facing boundary-pushing behavior by superiors in the field. Tuesday, October 5, 2021,  10:00–11:30 AM EDT
  This meeting will be VIRTUAL. Register
• Free Associations Journal with the Freud Museum Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere 2021: Social Justice Perils of Adjustment in an Age of Rising Inequality Panel: David Bell, Penny Campling, Jill Gentile, Eli Zaretsky; Chair: David Morgan Friday, September 24, 2021,  2:10–3:55 PM BST (9:10–10:45 AM EDT)
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• IPA Conference 2021 On the Infantility of Free-associative Speaking and Listening Presenters: Jill Gentile, Barnaby Barratt, and Carlos Calich; Chair: Dominique Scarfone. Friday, July 23, 2021,  6:00–7:30 PM GMT General information & Registration
  Conference Program
• Institute of Psychoanalysis The Political Mind Series #MeToo: The Feminine as Portal to Free Speech and Emancipatory Democracy This lecture will be delivered remotely via Zoom Tuesday, June 8, 2021,  8:15–9:45 PM BST (3:15–4:45 PM EDT) Event information & Registration
  Full Series
• Psychoanalysis and Politics "Crises and Transmissions" Seminar Series Death v. Life: The Strange Temporalities and Radical Democratic Imaginaries of a Pandemic The novel coronavirus, and the ensuing global racial uprisings have drawn the world into what may be seen as a social psychoanalysis, including a fierce contestation between forces for destruction and those for life and its vitality. We will question our alliance with death-bound repetition compulsions, even as we also long for release, for new dis-orderings, emancipation, even ecstasy. Can signage of the ‘weird’ and ‘strange’ inspire us, call us to a confrontation with our repressed ancestral legacies, while also guiding us towards transformation and genuine encounters, finally, with a long repudiated and exiled Otherness? Wednesday, June 2, 2021,  7:00–8:30 PM EDT More information & Registration
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• The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity Virtual via Zoom Time may change us: The strange temporalities, novel paradoxes, and democratic imaginaries of a pandemic Join us for a conversation between IPSS candidate, Paul Sireci, LCSW and Jill Gentile, Ph.D, IPSS faculty and author of the recent essay published in JAPA. Thursday, March 25th, 2021,  8:00–9:30 PM EDT More information
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• The Contemporary Freudian Orientation Inaugural Zoom Lounge The Tale: A Conversation About Sexual Abuse, Memory and Desire Presented by Kenneth Feiner, Jill Gentile, Arthur Fox, and Kamal Choksi.
  Join us for an informal conversation about the 2018 Emmy nominated HBO film, “The Tale,” which tells an autobiographical story of childhood sexual abuse. It offers a powerful account of memory, desire and agency that both corroborates and challenges conventional psychoanalytic thinking, and raises issues relevant to the #MeToo movement and to themes of gaslighting and sexual predation that have infused our current political context. Sunday, December 6, 2020,  5:30–7:00 PM EDT more information
• The William Alanson White Institute Clinical Education Meeting Beyond the Politics of Castration: The Election, the Pandemic, and the Transformative Strange This talk explores the significance of sexual difference for a psychoanalytic “democratic position” and its potential contributions to radical equality and collective renewal. Tuesday, November 10, 2020,  10:00–11:30 AM EDT
• Austen Riggs Center Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture Beyond the Politics of Castration: The Election, the Pandemic, and the Transformative Strange This talk explores the significance of sexual difference for a psychoanalytic “democratic position” and its potential contributions to radical equality and collective renewal. Friday, October 30, 2020,  6:30 PM EDT more information
• 2020 APCS Annual Conference Symposium From Truth or Dare to Show and Tell: A Conversation about Childhood Ritual, Play, Symbolic Life and the Performative Dimensions of Psychoanalysis and Democracy Chairs: Jill Gentile and Danielle Frank. Presenters: Carol Owens, Marilyn Charles, and Stephanie S. Swales. Friday, October 16, 2020,  12:15 PM EDT
  Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center, New Brunswick, NJ more information
• 2020 APCS Annual Conference Student Roundtable Violence Against Women (Open to All) Chairs: Jill Gentile and Paola Gonzalez. Presenters: Dana Charatan, Claudia Quintero, Breanna Vizlakh, Mariam Rahman, Maria Isabel Fuente, and Rose Medcalf. Saturday, October 17, 2020,  12:15 PM EDT
  Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center, New Brunswick, NJ more information
• New York University Postdoctoral Program Independent Track Wine and Cheese Salon What we listen for: Playing with language and the language of play Conversation with David Lichtenstein, Ph.D., in dialogue with candidates Alvaro Moreira, Barbara Nussbaum, and Suheyla Zubaroglu Sunday, February 2, 2020,  4:00 – 6:00 PM
  East 10 Street, New York, NY
• The Suffolk Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis :
  Winter Institute 2020 Partisanship: Navigating the Volatility of Politics in the Consulting Room Panel with Matt Aibel, LCSW, and Steven Tublin, Ph.D. Sunday, March 1, 2020,  9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
  Rexcorp, 68 South Service Road, Melville, NY more information
• The Kristeva Circle 2019 Conference Keynote Address Feminine Revolt: Signs at the Edge of the Strange Saturday, October 5, 2019,  10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
  Emory University’s Conference Center and Hotel, 1615 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA more info   |   program
• 51st International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) Congress Phallicism and Femininity: Deconstructing a Binary of Impotence Panel with Velleda Ceccoli, Ph.D.; Dany Nobus, Ph.D.; Isaac Tylim, Ph.D.; and Sergio Lewkowicz, Ph.D. (discussant) Thursday, July 25, 2019
  Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London, England program
• The American Psychoanalytic Association 2019 National Meeting What Can I Say? Contested Words and Contested Thoughts in the Present Psychoanalytic Moment Panel with Bonnie E. Litowitz, Ph.D. (Chicago, IL), Ann Pellegrini, Ph.D. (New York, NY), and Lara Sheehi, Psy.D. (Williamsburg, VA) Chair: Mitchell Wilson, M.D. (Berkeley, CA); Co-chair: Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. (New York, NY) Saturday, February 9, 2019,  9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
  Hilton Hotel, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY program (PDF)
• The American Psychoanalytic Association 2019 National Meeting Special Symposium Agency, the Complexities of Desire, and #MeToo in HBO’s “The Tale”:
  A Conversation with Filmmaker Jennifer Fox Panel with Jennifer Fox (New York, NY) and Barbara Mosbacher, Ph.D. (Houston, TX)
  Other discussants: Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. (New York, NY), Carol Gilligan, Ph.D. (New York, NY), and Lyn Yonak, M.S.W. (Great Barrington, MA) Saturday, February 9, 2019,  5:15 PM – 7:15 PM
  Hilton Hotel, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY program (PDF)
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center :: Annex Event Beyond Patriarchy: The Elusive Feminine, #MeToo, and the Eros of Free Speech Friday, April 26, 2019
  The PPSC Annex, 80 Fifth Aveniue #903, New York, NY
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 39th Annual Spring Meeting, 2019 Roundtable Contradictions in Silence and Speech when #MeToo Gets Close to Psychoanalytic Home Co-chairs: Jill Gentile, Ph.D. and Katie Gentile, Ph.D.
  Presenters: Andrea Celenza, Ph.D.; Cynthia Chalker, M.S.S.; Virginia Goldner, Ph.D.; Chakira Hddock-Lazala, Ph.D.; and Lara Sheehi, Psy.D. Friday, April 5, 2019
  Philadelphia, PA more information
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 39th Annual Spring Meeting, 2019 Special Program A Conversation with Eve Ensler and Jennifer Fox With Kenneth Feiner and Jill Gentile Thursday, April 4, 2019
  Philadelphia, PA more information
  Ken Feiner,  Jennifer Fox,  Eve Ensler,  Jill Gentile
• Massachussetts Institute for Psychoanalysis Between Silence and Speech: A Dialogue About Agency, Surveillance, and #MeToo A Conversation with Katie Gentile; interlocutor: Deborah Dowd Saturday, December 8, 2018, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  Macht Auditorium, Cambridge City Hospital, Cambridge, MA
• Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society
  1. On Desire, Agency, and the Eternal Validity of Psychoanalysis
  2. Between Psychoanalysis and Democracy: On Free Speech and Feminine Law
  3. Between the Familiar and Stranger: Repudiated Love and Oedipal Enfranchisement
  Saturday, September 15, 2018
  8:15 AM – 4:30 PM
  Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society
  13919 Carrollwood Village Run, Tampa, FL more information
• Psychoanalysis on Ice Conference, 2018 Separation, Death, Existentialism, and Lennon: Oh, Baby Panel presentation with Michael Macrone, Ph.D. (San Francisco, CA) Saturday, July 28, 2018, 12:15 PM
  Reykjavik, Iceland more information
• IARPP Conference, 2018 Trump and His Supporters as Repudiated Other Panel presentation with Steven Botticelli, Ph.D. (New York, NY);
  Discussants/Interlocutors: Matthew Steinfeld, Ph.D. (New Haven, CT) and Komal Chokski, Ph.D. (New York, NY); Moderator: Matt Aibel, LCSW (New York, NY)
  Saturday, June 16, 2018,  1:45 PM
  Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY more information
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 38th Annual Spring Meeting, 2018 Town Hall Discussion Civility, Dialogue, and Free Speech Panel/roundtable with Colin Ennis, Psy.D., Kori Bennett, Psy.D., and Lara Sheehi, Psy.D. Saturday, April 21, 2018, 4:15 - 6:00 PM
  InterContinental New Orleans, Acadian I & II, 444 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA
• The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis On the Concept of the Transitional Subject Wednesday, April 18, 2018
  The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, 122 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL
• Chicago Psychoanalytic Society The Odyssey of Desire and the Eros of Free Speech Discussant: Jonathan Lear, Ph.D.
  Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 7:00 – 8:50 PM
  Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, 122 South Michigan Avenue, Room 1323, Chicago, IL more information
• William Alanson White Institute On Primacy, Gaps, Naming, and Knowledge: A Conversation about the Fundamental Rule, the First Amendment, and Feminine Law Tuesday, March 27, 2018
  20 West 74 Street, New York, NY
• Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society The Political Unconscious in Perilous Times Panel with Lance Dodes, M.D. (New Center for Psychoanalysis) and Judith Butler, Ph.D. (U.C. Berkeley). Moderated by Margot Beattie. Saturday, January 27, 2018,  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA more information Lance Dodes,  Jill Gentile,  Judith Butler,  Margot Beattie
• The Sándor Ferenczi Center of The New School for Social Research On Queer Theory, Penis Envy and the Subject of Defiance: A Day with Mari Ruti Moderator and co-panelist with David Lichtenstein and Steven Kuchuck in conversation with Mari Ruti on the subject of her book, Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings Sunday, December 17, 2017,  9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
  Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College, Room B500, 65 West 11th Street, New York, NY more information
• The Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program The Sounds of Silence: Freud, the Founding Fathers, and Free Speech Sunday, November 12, 2017
  New York University, New York, NY
• The Kristeva Circle 2017 Meeting (Un)Free Association, Faux Phallicism, and the Elusive Feminine Signifier Panel with Jim Bodington (University of New Mexico), Jingchao Ma (Villanova University), and Jim Donnelly (University of Pittsburgh) Friday, October 27, 2017,  10:00 - 11:30 AM
  University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA more information
• LACK 2017 :: Psychoanalysis and Politics NOW Tugging at the Umbilical Cord: Birtherism and Trump’s Delivery to the White House Panel with Jeremiah Bowen (SUNY Buffalo), Shane Herron (Furman University), and Christian Sorace (Colorado College) Thursday, October 19, 2017,  10:00 - 11:15 AM
  Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO more information
• Konan University Workshop on Democracy & Psychoanalysis Moderated by Koichi Togashi, Ph.D. June, 2017
  Kobe, Japan
  
• IARPP Conference 2017
  From the Margins to the Centre: Contemporary Relational Perspectives Masculine Intimacy, Feminine Law Panel with Karla Rodriguez (Mexico), Nick Davies (South Africa), and Annette Conradi (Australia) Saturday, May 27, 2017,  4:30 - 6:00 PM
  SMC Conference Centre, 66 Goulburn Street, Sydney, Australia more information Karla Rodriguez,  Annette Conradi,  Nick Davies,  and Jill Gentile
• IARPP Conference 2017
  From the Margins to the Centre: Contemporary Relational Perspectives Psychoanalysis, Politics and Democracy Interlocutor for an invited panel with Sally Swartz (South Africa), Victor Donas (Chile), and Lynne Segal (UK) Friday, May 26, 2017,  8:30 - 10:00 AM
  SMC Conference Centre, 66 Goulburn Street, Sydney, Australia more information
• New Books in Psychology Podcast Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Deisre Psychoanalysis & Democracy in Action interview with Eugenio Duarte. May 8, 2017 listen
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 37th Annual Spring Meeting, 2017 Seducing Nature: Possibility and the Improbable Profession Part of the panel “‘Let's Get It On’: Revisiting Love and Seduction in Contemporary Psychoanalysis,”  with Dana L. Charatan and Steven Kuchuck
  Friday, April 28, 2017,  8:00 - 9:50 AM
  Empire Ballroom West, The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, 811 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY more information
• Psychoanalytic Explorations at IPSS 2017 Psychoanalysis, Free Speech, and the Female Body In conversation with Katie Gentile March 23, 2017
  New York, NY more information
• The William Alanson White Institute The Aftermath & The Inauguration: Democracy Encounters the Unknown Panel with Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D.; Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D.; and Charles Strozier, Ph.D. (moderator) February 4, 2017
  Constantine Hall at Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY more information
• The American Psychoanalytic Association 2017 National Meeting The Developing Child, The Developing City and Developing Peace Educators and Analysts Working Together Discussion Group, with David Bornstein (New York Times), Jennifer March (Citizen’s Campaign for Children), Ann Marie Sacramone, and Daniel Frank (Francis W. Parker School) January 19, 2017
  New York, NY more information
• Mount Sinai Psychotherapy Institute Freud, Free Speech, Desire, and the Presidential Election Faculty Psychotherapy Conference December 13, 2016
  Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY about the institute
• The William Alanson White Institute Creative Process and Feminine Law Conversation with the Artist Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts December 1, 2016
  The William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY about the institute
• Widener University Free Speech/Hate Speech: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Homeland (In)Security 23rd Annual Irving and Janice Schulman Lecture November 5, 2016
  Swarthmore, PA
• New Books in Psychoanalysis Podcast Feminine Law Interview with William H. Braun. October 21, 2016 listen
• International Asssociation of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Conference Meet the Author: Feminine Law Conversation with Jim Fosshage, Ph.D. October 20, 2016
  Boston, MA about the conference
• International Asssociation of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Conference Attachment, Desire, and Oedipal Phenomena Pre-conference workshop October 19, 2016
  Boston, MA about the conference
• Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society Conference The “Baggage Claim Dream” as Transformative Marker of Political Agency and Social Justice Pre-conference workshop October 14, 2016
  Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ about the conference
• Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey (CPPNJ) Meet the Author: Feminine Law Conversation with Sandra Sinicropi, LCSW October 6, 2016
  Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ about the center
• The Institute for Public Knowledge (NYU) Psychoanalysis Meets Democracy: A Conversation on Free Speech and How Talking Cures Conversation with John Ferejohn, Carol Gilligan, and Steve Botticelli September 29, 2016 at 6:30 p.m.
  IPK, 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY more information
• The Sándor Ferenczi Center of The New School for Social Research Book Launch The Death of Desire, by Michael Guy Thompson Moderator of panel including Darlene Ehrenberg, Tony Bass, Steve Kirschner, and Jeremy Safran September 19, 2016
  New York, NY Jill Gentile,  Michael Guy Thompson,  Darlene Ehrenberg,
  Steve Kirschner,  Tony Bass,  and Jeremy Safran.
• The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies Free Speech, Hate Speech: Can Talking Cure? Extension division presentation September 16, 2016
  New York, NY more information
• 2nd Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies Meet the Author: Feminine Law Conversation with Marilyn Charles, Ph.D.
  June 29, 2016
  University of the West of England, Bristol, UK more information
Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Italy
• IARPP International Conference 2016 Oh Baby, Oh God: Reflections on Loss, Lennon, and Winnicott’s “I AM.” Presentation with Michael Macrone, Ph.D. (San Francisco, CA). Discussant: Joyce Klein, Ph.D. (Cambridge, MA). Moderator: Shlomo Beinart. June 11, 2016
  Rome, Italy conference information
• IARPP International Conference 2016 Meet the Author: Feminine Law Interview with Jonathan Slavin, Ph.D. (Boston, MA) June 10, 2016
  Rome, Italy conference information
• The Sándor Ferenczi Center of The New School for Social Research Book Launch Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire
  by Jill Gentile (with Michael Macrone) Panel discussion with Carol Gilligan, George Makari, Chiara Bottici, and David Lichtenstein. Moderated by Steve Botticelli and hosted by Jeremy Safran. Presented with the support of the Independent Track of NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity Friday, May 13, 2016,  7 – 9 PM
  The New School, 55 W. 13th St., New York, NY
• The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies Invited Paper Hate Speech and Immaterial Violence: Can Talking Cure? Can psychoanalysts speak? As globalization and metastasizing conflicts drive us into closer and closer encounters with the Other, a siege mentality spreads. We begin to wonder if freedom is worth the cost. Those who represent the public voice—politicians, professional and “citizen” journalists, pundits, academics—respond to real and imagined violence with conflicted reappraisals of free speech and its limits, struggling to cope with the immaterial violence we call “hate speech.” Where on this intellectual battleground do we find psychoanalysis? How can we, practitioners of the talking cure, enter the discourse? Does our clinical experience give us special insight into the nature of freedom, in particular the freedom of expression implied by the American Constitution? As public discourse polarizes, perhaps we have the tools to open a space for genuine encounter, in the face of both ordinary and extraordinary hatred and violence. What are those tools, and how can we use them? April 22, 2016
  New York, NY
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 36th Annual Spring Meeting, 2016 Roundtable Standing at the Crossroads: The Science of Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutics of Science Co-chairs: Jill Gentile. and John Auerbach
  Presenters: Eliot Jurist, Frank Summers, and Jane Tillman Friday, April 8, 2016
  Atlanta, GA
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 36th Annual Spring Meeting, 2016 Enshrined ambiguity in psychoanalysis and free speech Tensions on the Border between Speech and Action panel with David Lichtenstein (New York, NY) Thursday, April 7, 2016
  Atlanta, GA
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 36th Annual Spring Meeting, 2016 Meet the Author: Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire. Thursday, April 7, 2016
  Atlanta, GA
• Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society Conference Lines between speech and action in psychoanalysis and free speech October 23, 2015
  Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
• Civilization and its Blisscontents: Violence and Psychoanalysis Freedom for the thought that we hate May 2, 2015
  New York, NY
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 35th Annual Spring Meeting, 2015 Manifesto Fest: A psychoanalytic manifesto Moderator and speaker April 23, 2015
  San Francisco, CA
• Psychology and Civil Liberties—Major Controversies Symposium Free Association and Free Speech: How Psychoanalysis Speaks to Democracy August 10, 2014
  Washington, DC
• South Jerusalem Mental Health Center Attachment Security and Mutuality of Desire June 30, 2014
  Jerusalem, Israel
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 34th Annual Spring Meeting, 2014 Memory Matters Panel presentation April 26, 2014
  New York, NY
• New York University Postdoctoral Program Independent Track Colloquium Freud and Free Speech Panel with Pasquale Pasquino, Ph.D. (opening remarks) and John Ferejohn, Ph.D. (discussant) October 26, 2013
  New York University School of Law, New York, NY
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 33rd Annual Spring Meeting, 2013 Embodied potential space: How actual physical space helps us create meaning Discussion of Malcom Slavin's “Sacred prehistoric Spaces: Cave art, music and the Capacity to Bear the Human Condition” April 25, 2013
  Boston, MA
• The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity &
  The Sándor Ferenczi Center of The New School for Social Research Truth and Consequences in Psychoanalytic Treatment: The Analyst’s Intimate Experience and the Patient’s Mind Invited paper. February 2, 2013
  New York, NY
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 32nd Annual Spring Meeting, 2012 Oh Baby, Oh God: Loss, Lennon, and Winnicott’s “I AM” Panel presentation with Michael Macrone, Ph.D. (San Francisco, CA) and Malcolm Slavin, Ph.D. (Cambridge, MA) April 20, 2012
  Santa Fe, NM
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 32nd Annual Spring Meeting, 2012 Creative Flow: Psychoanalysis, art and the space between Discussant April 18, 2012
  Santa Fe, NM
• Conference on Psychology and the Other Invited panel On mattering, matter, and “transitional” memory: A discussion of J. Slavin’s essay Also presented at the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology conference, Washington, DC, October 19, 2012. October 2, 2011
  Cambridge, MA
• Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis Invited colloquium Between the familiar and the stranger: Attachment, agency, and desire March 4, 2011
  New York, NY
• New York University Postdoctoral Program Intertrack Colloquium Discussion of Bob Katz’s An Imperfect Death: Heidegger, Oedipus, and Basescu. January 22, 2011
  New York, NY
• IPSS Explorations Series Discussion of “Weeds on the Ruins: Agency, compromise formation, and the quest for intersubjective truth” November 17, 2010
  New York, NY
• “All the Gods Must be Heard”: The Dilemmas of Multiplicity in Tragedy and Psychoanalysis Thoughts on Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Euripedes’ psychoanalytic prescience Part of a panel with Michael Macrone and Charlotte Gordon June 2010
  Sicily, Italy
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 29th Annual Spring Meeting, 2009 Between courage and fear: Reflections on Davies’ “Love in the Afternoon.” April 2009
  San Antonio, TX
• International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis Conference Agency and attachment theory: Mutually informing constructs in relational psychoanalysis May 2008
  Baltimore, MD
• Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 28th Annual Spring Meeting, 2008 The dynamics of supervisory exchange Live supervision and discussion April 2008
  New York, NY
• International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis Conference Weeds on the ruins: Symptoms, compromise formation, and the plight of personal agency July 2007
  Athens, Greece
• Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity Mind, matter, and intersubjectivity Paper presentation. January 2007
  New York, NY
• Tufts University Counseling Center Having no thoughts Paper presentation. January 30, 2006
  Medford, MA
• South Jersualem Mental Health Center Transformations of agency Paper presentation. January 2, 2006
  Kfar Shaul Psychiatric Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
• 24th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self Beyond privacy: Transitional intersubjectivity and the transitional subject Paper presentation. November 2001
  San Francisco, CA