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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
    Details & Registration
  • 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
    Details & Registration

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
    Registration
  • 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
    Registration
  • 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
    information & registration
  • 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.
    Information & registration
  • 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) Information & registration
  • 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
    Information & registration
  • 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.
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  • 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
    information & registration
  • 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 registration
  • 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
    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, 2022,  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
    Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC
    info  |  brochure (PDF)
  • 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
  • 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
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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 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)
    Online
    General information & Tickets
  • 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
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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
    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
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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
    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
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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
    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
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    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 Lear-502x399 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
    more information BerkeleyPsychoanalytic-550x329 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
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  • 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 Sydney-750x446 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 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
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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 listen
  • 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
    Ferenczi-MGT2-750x424 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 Bristol-400x330 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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  • 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-Rome 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