As we have mentioned in recent posts, these days are the 100th anniversary of Sigmund Freud’s only visit to the United States, during which he presented a series of lecture at Clark University that later became the basis of the book The Origins and Development of Psychoanalysis. There will be a centennial conference held at the New York Academy of Medicine on Oct 3-4 which will feature some of the leading historians of psychoanalysis in America. The full announcement can be found here. The full program is copied below.
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AFTER FREUD LEFT:
Centennial Reflections on His 1909 Visit to the United States
A public symposium to mark 100 years of Freud’s impact on America
Saturday, October 3, and Sunday, October 4, 2009
The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York 10029
SPONSORED BY
The Foundation for Idiodynamics, Personality Theory, and the Creative Individual, St. Louis
3 October (Saturday) Events at the New York Academy of Medicine
Registration opens at 8:15. Coffee served in the lobby.
9:00 a.m. Welcome and introduction, Hosack Hall
Chair: John Burnham, Ohio State University
Jo Ivey Boufford, President of the New York Academy of Medicine. Welcome.
Eric Nuetzel, The Foundation for Idiodynamics, Personality Theory,
and the Creative Individual
Martin Rauchbauer, Assistant Director, Austrian Cultural Forum of New York
Introduction of organization representatives
A few words of background and introduction. John Burnham
9:30 a,m. First session, Hosack Hall
Chair: Ingrid Scholz-Strasser, Sigmund-Freud Museum and Privatstiftung, Vienna.
Sonu Shamdasani, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at
University College London.: “Notes on a Vintage: Psychology, 1909”
Richard Skues, London Metropolitan University: “Clark Revisited: Reappraising Freud
in America”
Invited Commentator: Raymond E. Fancher, York University (Toronto)
Audience questions and discussion
11:30 a.m. Luncheon in Presidents Gallery (by ticket purchased ahead of time only)
12-12:15: Reading of a short selection of Freud’s letters from his trip (during
luncheon)
Speakers will be at the luncheon and can talk with members of the audience
1:00 p.m. Second session, Hosack Hall
Chair: Patricia R. Everett, Private Practice, Amherst, Massachusetts
George Makari, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, “Mittel Europa on the
Hudson: On the Struggle over American Psychoanalysis after the Anschluss”
Ernst Falzeder, Universität Innsbruck and Philemon Foundation: “’A Fat Wad of Dirty
Papers’: Freud on America, Freud in America, Freud and America”
Invited Commentator: James William Anderson, Northwestern University and Chicago Psychoanalytic Society
Audience questions and discussion
3:00 p.m. Complimentary coffee break in the lobby. Audience members and speakers are encouraged to interact.
3:30 p.m. Third session, Hosack Hall
Chair: Leon Hoffman, Pacella Parent Child Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University: “Freud and the Vicissitudes of Modernism in
America, 1940-1980”
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Vanderbilt University: “Heinz Kohut’s Americanization of Freud”
Invited Commentator: Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale University
Audience questions and discussion
5:30 p.m. Adjournment for the day
October 4 (Sunday) Reassembly at the New York Academy of Medicine
9:00 a.m. Registration desk opens. Coffee served in the lobby.
9:30 a.m. Fourth session, Hosack Hall
Chair, Lila Kalinich, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Columbia University
Louis Menand, Harvard University: “Freud, Anxiety, and the Cold War”
Hale Usak, Universität Innsbruck: “Perspectives on Freudian Psychoanalysis:
Comparative Histories from Central Europe, Turkey, and the United States”
Invited Commentator: James Gilbert, University of Maryland
Audience questions and discussion
11:30 a.m. Conclusion, Hosack Hall
Chair: John Burnham
Comments by audience members and participants, followed at 12:10 by 5-minute
summary closure statements by each of the Invited Commentators..
12:30 p.m. Final adjournment of the conference
Speakers and Chairs
Jean-Christophe Agnew is Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University. His many publications on the history of American culture include Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought.
James William Anderson is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University and Faculty Member, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has published extensively on the history of psychoanalysis.
John C. Burnham is Research Professor of History, Professor of Psychiatry (by courtesy), and Affiliated Scholar in the Medical Heritage Center at Ohio State University. He is the author of books and articles on the history of psychoanalysis in the United States.
Patricia R. Everett is a psychologist in the private practice of psychotherapy in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has edited the correspondence of Mabel Dodge and expects soon to start on the correspondence of A.A. Brill.
Ernst Falzeder is Lecturer at the Universität Innsbruck and Senior Scholar Editor in the Philemon Foundation. He is author, editor, or translator of many recent basic publications in the history of psychoanalysis, including The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham.
Raymond E. Fancher is Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at York University (Canada) and the author of, among other books, the classic Pioneers of Psychology.
James Gilbert is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and has written Redeeming Culture: American Religion in the Age of Science and a number of other major books on American culture.
Leon Hoffman is Director of the Pacella Parent Child Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society. He is the author of numerous well recognized publications, including a new paper on the history of psychoanalysis in America.
Lila Kalinich is Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Her professional publications include recently co-editing The Dead Father: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry.
Elizabeth Lunbeck is Nelson Tyrone, Jr., Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. She is author of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America and other major publications on the history of mental healing and society.
George J. Makari is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center. He is the author of the new standard work, Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis, and many other publications.
Louis Menand is Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club, which won the Pulitzer Prize for history, and many other studies in American culture.
Dorothy Ross is Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History Emerita at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Origins of American Social Science as well as, among other publications, a biography of G. Stanley Hall.
Ingrid Scholz-Strasser is Vorstandsvorsitzende of the Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung in Vienna and has published and spoken widely on the history of psychoanalysis.
Sonu Shamdasani is Professor in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. His publications on the history of psychology and psychoanalysis include Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science.
Richard Skues is Principal Lecturer in Social Science at London Metropolitan University and the author of a number of publications on the history of psychoanalysis, including Sigmund Freud and the History of Anna O.: Reopening a Closed Case.
Hale Usak is a practicing psychologist and doctoral candidate at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria. Her work in progress is a comparative history of psychoanalysis in Turkey.