The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center

Moderator: Penny Rosen, LCSW-R, BCD-P

Sunday, September 22, 2024
5pm – 7pm

Live Online via Zoom: Workshop
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Friday, September 20, at 1pm

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

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The presentation will discuss biographies of fourteen largely forgotten women psychoanalysts (most of them Jewish), born in Europe before the First World War. Each of the stories is unique, yet each also entwines with many other stories, sharing with them themes and topics linked to the issues of gender, Jewishness, women’s education, politics, migration, and memory. Most recognizably, the early lives of these women, their career choices and paths, were affected, challenged, and derailed by sociopolitical circumstances and developments: WWI, the rise of antisemitism and Nazism in the interwar period, the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the Shoah. Many early women psychoanalysts also found themselves entangled in the Freudian movement’s internal politics and male conflicts. These daunting circumstances and other complex individual factors contributed to the fact that these fourteen women have been either left entirely out of the record or have been inadequately remembered (along with their contributions to psychoanalysis).

Learning Objectives: After attending this presentation, participants will be able to
– Discuss the importance of historical developments in shaping the history of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century, including the rise of antisemitism and Nazism in Germany, Austria, and Hungary, and autocracy in Poland.
– Identify common familial, educational, political, socioeconomic, and cultural features that shaped the history of women in psychoanalysis in interwar Europe.
– Describe the circumstances that facilitated entry of women into the psychoanalytic movement.
– Discuss the complex identities of the first women psychoanalysts, with the focus on the importance or lack thereof of gender and Jewishness.

Open to:
NPAP Members I $25
Other Professionals I $40
Other Candidates/Students I $15
Contribution I Strongly Encouraged

2 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.

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National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0010.

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