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Forthcoming Events
Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society
Spring Conference with Jill Gentile, PhD
Feminine Law and the Sacred Space Between Δ:
Reflections on Psychoanalysis, Democracy, Spirituality,
and Consciousness
Saturday, April 18, 2026, 8:30 AM – 3:15 PM EDT
Crowne Plaza Knoxville
401 W. Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37902
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2026 IARPP 22nd Annual Conference
Hate and the Feminine
Discussion of Jill Gentile’s “The paradoxical circuits of hate and the feminine: implications for global collaborative resonance and gendered consciousness.”
Panelists: Jill Gentile, PhD; Carleen Miller, PhD; and Shalini Jain, RP.
Friday, May 8, 2026, 1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT
Hyatt Regency Toronto
370 King Street, Toronto, ON M5V-1J9
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Selected Paper Presentations and
Professional Workshops
Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society
Roundtable: Witches’ Coven: Convening Wild Women
Chair: Marilyn Charles; Panelists: Marilyn Charles, Erica Galioto, Maria Miron, Carol Owens, Lisa Vetere, Jill Gentile
Saturday, October 25, 2025, 12:15 – 1:30 PM EDT
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society
Roundtable: Reclaiming Paths to Individual and Collective Sovereignty: The Liberatory and Transgressive Potential of Psychoanalysis
Chair: Michael O'Loughlin; Presenters: Michael O'Loughlin, Angie Voela, Jill Gentile, Lisa Koshkarian, Meriem Mokdad Zmitri, Adele Tutter
Saturday, October 25, 2025, 2:30 – 4:00 PM EDT
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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46th Annual IAPSP International Conference
Plenary Session
Threshold of the Late 2020s: Breakdown, Cosmic Intersubjectivity, and the Sacred Space Between
(∆)
Presenters: Ilene Philipson, PhD, PsyD, Jill Gentile, PhD, Haim Weinberg, Phd, CGP: Moderator: Tyla Grange Isaacson, MSW, PhD
Saturday, October 18, 2025, 9:00 – 11:00 AM PDT
Pasadena, CA
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Psychology & the Other Conference
Sociopolitical Breakdown and Longing for Maternal Excess
Symposium with Jill Gentile, Tracy Sidesinger, and Alice Jardine.
Saturday, September 20, 2025, 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM EDT
Boston College, Boston, MA
Program
Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity
Tragic Person Evolved: Transforming Tragedy into Hope Through New, Alternative Treatments
Presenter: Douglas Zimmerman, M.A. Ed., LCSW- R; Discussant: Jill Gentile, PhD; Moderator: Sarah Mendelsohn, LCSW.
The paper, “Tragic Person Evolved: Transforming Tragedy Into Hope
Through New, Alternative Treatments” was presented at the 45th IAPSP
International Conference in Rome in October of 2024. The paper explores
the integration of relational psychoanalysis and alternative treatments,
including ketamine assisted psychotherapy, for individuals with OCD,
ADHD, and ASD. Two case studies illustrate how fostering a deeply
empathetic therapeutic relationship, combined with the potential
neuroplasticity-enhancing effects of psychedelics, facilitates profound
transformative shifts. The authors discusses the therapeutic
significance of self-disclosure and mirroring, alongside the ethical
considerations inherent in utilizing mind-altering substances. The
findings highlight the effectiveness of integrating self-psychology
principles with alternative approaches to address complex trauma and
promote self actualization in neurodivergent individuals.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 7:30 – 10:00 PM EDT
LGBT Community Center, 208 W 13 St, Room 310, New York, NY 10011
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COWAP NA (Committee on Women & Psychoanalysis, IPA, North America)
Women the Longest Revolution
Conversation with Juliet Mitchell
Juliet Mitchell will reflect on her iconic book,
“Women: The longest revolution,” considering the ongoing changes in different
feminine scenarios in conversation with Margarita Cereijido and Jill Gentile.
Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades
and this is reflected in how women perceive themselves, how they are perceived by
society, and how they are understood from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Inspired by the title of her book, Juliet Mitchell will reflect on the impact of
feminism, and the ongoing changes in different feminine scenarios. The audience will
reflect with the presenters about how our thinking has changed.
Saturday, April 12, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Online via Zoom.
information & registration
Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology
APA Division 39: Bodies in Praxis
The Hysteric, the Witch, & the Goddess: Repression to Resuscitation in Politics & Psychoanalysis
Jill Gentile, PhD, speaker; Dennis Debiak, PsyD & Ali Shames, PhD; Interlocutors; Paul Sireci, LCSW, Chair.
Friday, April 4, 2025, 2:30 – 3:45 PM EDT
Online via Zoom.
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LACK
LACKv
Revolution and Breakdown
Panel: Henry Crips (Chair), Jill Gentile, and Jake McDonald
Friday, March 14, 2025, 2:30 – 3:30 PM EDT
Otterbein University, Columbus, OH
Program
Psychoanalysis and Politics
Crises and Transmission
Hate Speech as the Action of Inequality
This talk proposes that hate speech merits political consideration beyond society’s usual efforts to either banish or restrict, or alternatively, (as in the US context) to impose few restrictions on it. Hate thrives in the context of power relations, at times antagonizing such inequities, and further burdening the already oppressed; other times, hate disrupts closed systems by insisting on symbolic and real equality and inclusiveness. We’ll apply Winnicottian clinical and theoretical considerations of hate (and by inference, hate speech) for the birth of subject relations to broader societal relations and democratic ethics. We will ask how we might think about the movement from hate speech to “free” speech” — or a “speech of desire” — both as part of the work of analysis and a goal for the public sphere. We will further explore how Winnicott’s interrelated conceptions of hate, destruction, and breakdown may speak to political calls, emanating from both the political right and the left, for drastic structural change, while also catalyzing the remembrance of and reckoning with traumatic, archaic repressed truths.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 6:00 PM GMT (1:00 PM EST)
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American Psychoanalytic Association (ApsA)
2025 National Meeting
Psychoanalysis Across the Disciplines: Hate Speech:
Clinical Perspectives on Political Discourse
Presenter: Jill Gentile, Ph.D.; Discussant: Mitchell D. Wilson, M.D.; Chair: Jeremy Elkins, Ph.D.
Hate speech has commonly—and understandably—been widely
condemned, with many calls for courts and other institutions to impose
greater regulations on it. Hate and its expression, in their multiple
varieties, have also been central subjects of psychoanalytic thought.
Focusing on hate speech both within the clinical setting and outside of
it, this session will take up two main (and related) sets of questions:
1) How does hate speech appear in the clinical setting? in public life?
How might one think about the movement from hate speech to (what will be
referred to as) a more "free" speech"— or "speech of desire"—as
part of the work of analysis? 2) Beyond the clinical space,
is hate speech essentially anti-democratic or are there also forms of
hate speech that might serve democratic and egalitarian ends?
Thursday, February 6, 2025, 2:00 – 4:00 PM PST
Palace Hotel, San Francisco
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The Center for Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry
Devastation & Revelation: Democracy, Psychoanalysis and Uncanny Politics
This talk will explore the democratic significance of sexual difference and highlight how Freud's insights into wounded masculinity and the erasures of feminine serve as a cautionary patriarchal tale underwriting contemporary political polarizations, degradations, and escalating breakdown fears and longings. We'll query collective unconscious fantasies fueling tensions between authoritarianism and the uncanny strange, while considering our ethical call as psychoanalytic thinkers and clinicians in these transformative and arguably apocalyptic times.
Thursday, December 19, 2024, 5:00 – 6:30 PM EST
Online via Zoom.
Zoom
Relational Psychoanalysis: The Quest for Belonging and the Co-creation of a Therapeutic ”Home”
Panel: Unraveling the Complexity of Belonging
Presentation of "Between the familiar and the stranger: The alien, the uncanny feminine, and homeland security";
discussant: Elizabeth Allured
Hyatt Regency, Yucatán, Merida, México
Thursday, June 20, 2024, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Book Launch
Analyzed by Lacan by Betty Milan
Roundtable with Jill Gentile, Chris Vanderwees, Betty Milan, Patricia Gherovici, Richard Ledes, and Lois Oppenheim.
Saturday, November 4, 2023, 10:00 – 11:30 AM EDT
Online via Zoom.
Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society (APCS) 2023 Annual Conference
Conversation Hour
Orphans of the Real: Emerging from the Echo Chambers
Part of the "What Is a Psychoanalytic Community" panel with
Ian Parker, Stephanie Swales, David Pavon Cuellar, Michael O'Loughlin.
Chair: Carol Owens.
Rutgers University Continuing Education Conference Center, New Brunswick, NJ
Saturday, October 28, 2003, 3:30 – 4:45 PM EDT
Hybrid Conference
Psychology & the Other Conference
On the Uncanny (Feminine) Abject and the Opportunity of the Alien Encounter
Part of the "Alien Salon" panel with Samantha Reilly and John Roberts.
Burns Library, Boston College
Friday, October 6, 2023, 3:00 – 4:30 PM EDT
Freud Museum London
Psychoanalysis in the Public Sphere Conference, 2023
Summoning the Witch: Thoughts on Authoritarianism and the Trinitarian Feminine
Panel on Post-Covid Authoritarianism: Susie Orbach, Lene Auestad, Jill Gentile, Luke Ali Manzarpour. Chair, David Morgan.
This year’s conference brings together psychoanalytically informed scholars and clinicians from many fields to re-examine the authoritarian personality literature from Adorno onward, and apply, extend and test it on contemporary manifestations.
Saturday, September 30, 2023, 12:35 – 2:10 PM GMT (7:35 – 9:10 AM EDT)
Online via Zoom
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Revisiting the Maternal: Online Conversation Series
Maternal Eroticism in the Analytic Setting
Andrea Celenza in conversation with Jamieson Webster, moderated by Jill Gentile.
Sponsored by the IPA, Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis, the Psychosocial Foundation, and the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.
The analyst’s vitalizing activity, as reflected in the analyst’s
invitation to be, in the offer to take in the analyst as an object of
love, to receive what the analyst transmits, and the taking in of other
components implicit through nonverbal means (through gaze and displaced
touch) are all components of a healthy analytic process. These are all
aspects of healthy maternal eroticism as well. In this presentation, the
various components of maternal eroticism will be illustrated through my
work with Petra. By attending to and responding within the multiverse of
maternal eroticism (derived in particular from the work of Julia
Kristeva), a process of transformation occurred where signifiers of the
abject, previously residing in foreclosed spaces of the analysand’s
mind, were accessed in the usable space of the analytic setting.
Saturday, May 6, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
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William Alanson White Conference
Liminal Spaces: Between No Longer and Not Yet
Panel: Transitionality, Illusion, and Play: Invitations and Foreclosures
Moderator: Jill Gentile, PhD. Panelists: Sarah Schoen, PhD; Stephen Seligman, DMH; Don Troise, LCSW
Saturday, April 1, 2023, 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM EDT
Fordham University Law School
150 W 62nd Street, New York, NY
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Institute of Psychoanalysis
The Political Mind: Cassandra’s Message 2, Nuclear and Climate Catastrophe, with John Keene
Chaired by David Morgan. Panel: Harriet Wolfe, Charles Strozier, Jill Gentile, Phil Stokoe, and
activist Rob Stuart.
Friday, March 3, 2023, 6:00 – 8:00 PM GMT (1:00 – 3:00 PM EDT)
Online via Zoom
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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, 2022, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC
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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
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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
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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
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Ceres Gallery
Hysterical Artist Talk / Z00m
Speakers: Jill Gentile, Stefany Benson, Kate Novack, Susan Grabel.
VIRTUAL : Wednesday, January 12, 2022 7:00 PM ESTCeres 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) Information
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.
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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.
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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)
Online
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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 GMTGeneral information & Registration Conference Program
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 EDTMore information & Registration Facebook
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 EDTmore 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 EDTmore 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
On Desire, Agency, and the Eternal Validity of Psychoanalysis
Between Psychoanalysis and Democracy: On Free Speech and Feminine Law
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Psychoanalytic Explorations at IPSS 2017
Psychoanalysis, Free Speech, and the Female Body
In conversation with Katie Gentile
March 23, 2017
New York, NY
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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International Asssociation of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Conference
Meet the Author: Feminine Law
Conversation with Jim Fosshage, Ph.D.
October 20, 2016
Boston, MA
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International Asssociation of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Conference
Attachment, Desire, and Oedipal Phenomena
Pre-conference workshop
October 19, 2016
Boston, MA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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IARPP International Conference 2016
Meet the Author: Feminine Law
Interview with Jonathan Slavin, Ph.D. (Boston, MA)
June 10, 2016
Rome, Italy
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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