Dr. Anna Balas is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a Training & Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She has had a private adult and child psychiatry practice in Manhattan for over 35 years. Dr. Balas is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association as of 2018. She has co-taught a class at the New York Psychoanalytic Society on Psychic Trauma for many years and in prior years has taught classes on The Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, The Self and Narcissism, Universal Fantasies, and Latency and Preadolescence.
Anna Balas
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
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Lying
This roundtable explores the nature of truth and lying, examining how statements can be true, misleading, or shaped by omission, belief, and context. It considers psychological and philosophical perspectives on deception, including how and why individuals construct and believe falsehoods.