The intersection of the body and contemporary culture

Treating psychosomatic symptomatology and illness has long been among the most challenging frontiers in psychoanalysis. This year’s Master Speaker Seminars follow the theme of “The Body in Contemporary Culture”, featuring presentations on psychoanalytic understanding of the mind-body connection, cultural uses of psychosomatic language, and psychosomatic conditions that challenge psychoanalytic understanding and technique. We consider a wide range of conditions, from skin symptomatology to eating disorders, cosmetic surgery and its relationship to hatred of the body, secrets held in the language of the body, and the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the mind-body connection. Our program gathers international eminent presenters with career-long immersion in these issues, and who bring their breadth of experience and understanding to this outstanding series.

13 SEP, 2024
Psychosomatics and Psycho-dermatology
Jorge Claudio Ulnik (Buenos Aires)

11 OCT, 2024
Empty Heart Disease in China and the West
Jill and David Scharff (Washington, DC)

15 NOV, 2024
Nourishing the Mind-Body Connection: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for a Medically Traumatized Child with a Feeding Phobia
Caroline Sehon (Washington, DC)

06 DEC, 2024
The Psychotherapy of Secrets: Hidden Stories in the Body that Inform Treatment and Countertransference Reactions
Kathryn Zerbe (Portland, Oregon)

17 JAN, 2025
Body and Mind
Donald Campbell (London)

14 FEB, 2025
When the Body Speaks
Ronny Jaffe (Milan)

07 MAR, 2025
The Starving Body, The Starving Soul: Repairing Ruptured Links
Jeanne Magagna (London)

11 APR, 2025
Occupied Territories: cosmetic surgery and hatred of the body
Alessandra Lemma (London)

09 MAY, 2025
Actual Bodies, Analytic Minds, and Artificial Intelligence
Todd Essig (New York)

2 CE credits per session (18 CE credits for all 9 sessions)