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This is a past event that happened on Saturday, January 25th, 2014 2:30-4:30PM.
For a study by Nathan Szajnberg, Ethiopian/Israeli six-year old children drew pictures of their lives, of their fantasies and fears, hopes and wishes. Their compelling drawings and stories will be the foundation upon which our roundtable participants will bring to bear art historical, linguistic, and psychoanalytic perspectives to explore questions of representation, the developmental issues related to the transition from visual to narrative representation, the universal and the culture-specific dimensions of human experience, and what we can learn about the inner lives of these children and of all of us.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, user Zeimusu
Participants:
Theodore Shapiro
Professor Emeritus, Weill-Cornell Medical College
Theodore Shapiro is Professor Emeritus at the Weill-Cornell Medical College and a practicing psychoanalyst and adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist . He is a co-principle investigator on a study of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. He has more than 200 scholarly and research publications, is author of 7 books, and was... read more! »Ellen Handler Spitz
Honors College Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland (UMBC)
Ellen Handler Spitz writes, teaches, and lectures on the visual, literary, and performing arts and psychology and on the aesthetic lives of children. Her background includes four years as a research candidate at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In 2008, she was the Erikson Scholar at Austen Riggs, . She has,... read more! »Nathan M. Szajnberg
Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Nathan Szajnberg is the Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, on the Faculty at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and formerly Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University. He is the author or editor of four books and one novella: Educating the Emotions (on Bruno Bettelheim’s ideas);... read more! »
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