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November 2009
Invited Speaker, “Staying the Course: The Perils and Pleasures of Moving Beyond the Clinical Encounter,” at the Annual Week-End Program, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Panel Title: “Activism: Stretching the Analytic Self.”
October 2009
Invited Speaker, “Betrayal in Cyberspace: Attachment in an Era of Virtual Connection,” paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Division of Psychoanalysis, New York State Psychological Association. Conference title: “Hooking Up: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sexuality in the 21st Century.”
February 2009
Invited Roundtable Presentation: “Psychoanalytic and Systemic Integration, and Global Family Therapy: Crossing Theoretical and National Borders,” Psychology Department, American University of Cairo, Egypt.
December 2008
“Self and Other in a Global Culture.” Paper presented in panel titled “Sullivan’s Legacy.” Colloquium sponsored by the Interpersonal Orientation, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York City.
December 2008
Invited interview and conversation with Adrian LeBlanc, award-winning journalist and author of Random Family (Scribner, 2003). Part of a series titled “Psychoanalytic Salons: Evenings of Exchange with Academics and Artists,” William Alonson White Society, New York City.
April 2008
Chair and Discussant for panel titled “Chronic Illness as Trauma,” Annual Meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), American Psychological Association, New York City.
October 2007
Invited Paper: “Couples Therapy and Psychoanalysis.” Conference titled “Psychoanalysts in Current Contexts,” sponsored by the New York State Psychological Association’s Division of Psychologists-Psychoanalysts, New York City.
July 2007
International Workshop: “The Illuminated Moment: The Transformation of Self and Other in Couple’s Therapy.” Annual Conference of the International Association Of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psythotherapy, Athens, Greece.