Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
and the
Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Assn.
Present
IMAGES OF WOMEN

Venus in Front of the Mirror (Detail), Peter Paul Rubens.
LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna.
When: Friday evening October 5 & Saturday October 6, 2012
Where: Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
This conference will focus on iconic images of women in art and literature, as well as intrapsychic images of women in clinical material. We will explore how these images impact and reflect the ways women are experienced and experience themselves throughout the life cycle.
Laurie Wilson (NY, NY) on “The Female Body in Art – Adoration, Attraction, Horror”
Cecile Bassen (Seattle, WA) on “Coming of Age: Depictions of Women in Fairy Tales”
Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp (Kassel, Germany) on “The Second Change: Menopause as Crisis and Chance”
Mariam Alizade (Buenos Aires, Argentina) on “Verbal Incest and Its Psychic Consequences”
with Discussants
Arlene Kramer Richards, Phyllis Tyson, Maxine Anderson, and Frances Thomson-Salo
Additional information on pre-conference events and Seattle attractions will be posted soon.
Questions? (206 328-5315 or info@spsi.org)