All regular programs will be held at National-Louis University, 122 South Michigan Avenue, Rm. 5006 starting at 7:00 p.m. (Please check individual meetings as sometimes the venue changes)
CME and CE credits are available to attendees Details..
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Program Committee

Joanne Marengo Ph.D. (Chair);
James Anderson Ph.D.;
Lucy Freund, Ph.D.;
Ronald Krasner, M.D. (ex-officio);
Jonathan Lear, Ph.D.;
Linda Marino Ph.D.;
Caryle Perlman, M.S.
Dennis Shelby, Ph.D.;
Ruth Yanagi, M.D.

NEXT MEETING..

NOTE: Attendance at this evening’s meeting is restricted to clinicians and clinical trainees.

Tuesday Evening Presentation – 7:00 P.M.

National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL – Room 5006 
Admissionisfree.Noreservations are required.

The Limitations of Freud’s (1933) Bisexual Hypothesis to Explain Impediments to Creativity in a Woman
Presenter: Barbara Rocah, M.D.      Discussant: Virginia Barry, M.D.

Barbara Rocah, M.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty (Retired) at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is a member of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies (Princeton NJ) and the Working Party Groups of the International Psychoanalytic Association.  Dr. Rocah’s primary interests are psychoanalytic treatment and teaching.  She has taught many courses at the Chicago Institute including Developmental Roots of Psychoanalytic Clinical Theory, Psychology of Women, Freud’s Clinical Theory, Advanced Freud Studies, Single Case Studies, and Challenges and Innovations in Analytic Work (with Mark Levey, M.D.).  Her writings include: “The Impact of the Analyst’s Pregnancy on a Vulnerable Child: A Case Presentation with Discussion by Miss Anna Freud” (Annual of Psychoanalysis, 2009); “The Language of Flowers: Freud’s Adolescent Language of Love, Lust, and Longing” (Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2002); “A Pluralistic Conception of Gender Identity” (Presented to the APsaA, 1986); as well as papers on psychological challenges in the development of women, the relationship of developmental and clinical theory, and the potential for re-traumatization in analytic work.

Virginia Barry, M.D. is Faculty at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and in full-time practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Chicago.  Dr. Barry has long been interested in how the body continues to exist in the mind and in the way our thinking is organized by emergent processes that occur as the person and their brain act into the world.  Specifically, her interest has been on how complex psychological phenomena emerge from complex dynamic systems.  Dr. Barry is especially interested in the clinical implications of these processes in that transference (and countertransference) is structured upon these unconscious ways of understanding the interpersonal world.  In the spirit of learning through teaching, she has taught courses at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, the University of Illinois, and to private study groups exploring the interface of brain and mind.  These courses are informed by research in neuroscience, cognitive linguistics, developmental psychology, philosophy, and more.

Purpose: This presentation will use a single case study to critically rethink Freud’s bisexual hypothesis as applied to personality development and the potential for cultural achievements in a woman.  This paper will provide a widening understanding of the significance of bisexual identifications, not to overcome castrated genitals as Freud proposed, but to overcome the imposed necessity to have a castrated mind free of intention and initiative.

Educational Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1) critically re-think Freud’s hypothesis that linked the capacity to be creative to sublimation of instinctual drives; 2) understand impediments to creativity in a woman beyond drive vicissitudes; and 3) reconsider the definition of intactness of a woman’s personality beyond the centrality of Freud’s castration hypothesis.

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