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Dr. Vamik Volkan
Annual Symposium 2011
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The Forgotten: Siblings in Psychic Development
Karen Gilmore, M.D.
Jill Miller, Ph.D.
Juliet Mitchell, Ph.D.
Eileen Becker-Dunn, MSW, Moderator
The Date: April 9th, 2011
The Time: 8:30AM - 1PM
The Place: Yale Child Study Center
Donald Cohen Auditorium
230 South Frontage Road
New Haven, Connecticut
Parents are not the only relatives who influence their children. As psychoanalysts, teachers and pediatricians have noted, siblings profoundly shape children's emotional lives and psychic development. However, their influence has been marginalized in some psychological circles. The speakers will discuss people's experiences and fantasies of having (and not having) siblings. They will present vivid case material and broader thinking about these relationships throughout the lifespan.
Dr. Juliet Mitchell will explain why psychoanalysts have privileged vertical (parent-child) over lateral (sibling) relationships, the consequences of such a bias, and the implications of taking brothers and sisters seriously. She will address these dynamics intra-psychically, inter-personally, and globally. Dr. Jill Miller will then present clinical material in which lateral dynamics feature prominently. She will describe the inner lives of these individuals and her approach to communicating with them. Dr. Karen Gilmore will then discuss both papers. She will interweave the theoretical with the clinical and provide observations and questions that will enhance the group discussion.
Ample time will be allotted for audience participation.
Karen Gilmore, M.D.
Dr. Karen Gilmore is currently Senior Associate Director of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Director of the Child Division. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at Columbia Medical School and also at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute where she was trained. She is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia. Dr. Gilmore has published a number of papers on a range of clinical topics, such as developmental theory, adoption, sexual development and gender identity disorder, and attention deficit disorder.
Jill Miller, Ph.D.
Dr. Jill Miller is a Child, Adolescent, and Adult Training and Supervising Analyst at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical School. She received her child and adolescent psychoanalytic training at the Anna Freud Center in London and her Ph.D. at University College London. She has authored numerous journal articles and books on topics related to children's development of insight, reactions to divorce, the function of a sense of shame in children, technical reconstruction of pre-verbal trauma, and historical reflections on the work of Anna Freud and Hansi Kennedy and the War Nurseries.
Juliet Mitchell, Ph.D.
Juliet Mitchell is a Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge, Convenor of Gender Studies in a Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She is a Full Member of the British and the International Psychoanalytical Societies. Her most recent books are Siblings: Sex and Violence, Polity Press (2003) and Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Sibling Relationship for the Human Condition, Allen Lane/Penguin Press and Basic Books. (2000).
Saturday, April 9th 2011
8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am Welcome and Introduction
Eileen Becker-Dunn, MSW9:05am Dr. Juliet Mitchell
9:55am Discussion
10:20am Coffee Break
10:35am Book raffle
10:45am Dr. Jill Miller
11:35am Dr. Karen Gilmore
12:20pm Discussion
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Ms. Kathy Wilcox
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2011 Symposium Committee:
Eileen Becker-Dunn, L.C.S.W., Co-Chair
Matt Shaw, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Rachel Bergeron, Ph.D.,J.D.
Linda Mayes, M.D.
Jack Miller, M.D.
Vicoria Morrow, Ph.D.,M.D.
Debra Nudel, Ph.D.
Nancy Olson, M.D.
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Annual Symposium 2010
The Society sponsors a symposium to bring psychoanalytic ideas to the community at large.
The Symposium is a component of the educational and outreach efforts of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society. Its mission is to make psychoanalytic ideas understandable and accessible to a wide range of educational, medical and mental health professionals in the broader community. The symposium addresses topics at the leading edge of psychoanalytic thought and theory. For decades, the symposium has hosted dozens of psychoanalytic scholars including Hanna Segal, Hans Loewald, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and many psychoanalysts from the Western New England Institute. Past Symposia.
2010 Symposium: Skin Deep.
Skin Deep: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Body Modification
The symposium most recently brought together a cross-pollination of psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians, as well as, general surgeons from the community in its 2010 symposium entitled, Skin Deep: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Body Modification.
On May 1st one hundred and six people gathered to discuss individuals’ experiences of, fantasies about, and difficulties with their bodies. Two surgeons, Dr. Deborah Pan and Dr. David Astrachan, presented vivid case material about people who surgically altered their chins, waistlines, breasts, and eyelids. While enthralling the audience with before and after photos, they described their patients’ complex motivations and the diagnostic dilemmas surrounding such interventions. Two analysts, Dr. Janice Lieberman from Manhattan and Dr. Alessandra Lemma from London, then discussed the surgeons’ case material, presented their own nuanced and varied theories about body modification, and led the audience through a series of analytic treatments.
2011 Symposium Committee:
Eileen Becker-Dunn, L.C.S.W., Co-Chair
Matt Shaw, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Rachel Bergeron, Ph.D.
Linda Mayes, M.D.
Jack Miller, M.D.
Debra Nudel, Ph.D.
Nancy Olson, M.D.