Judaism and Psychoanalysis: A Continuing Dialogue

Sunday, October 5 at 9 am to 4:15 pm For more than 100 years, Judaism and psychoanalysis have had a stimulating and at times contentious relationship. This innovative conference, presented at Spertus in partnership with the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, features an array of sterling speakers (see below) including Emory University professor Dr. Robert A. Paul, University of Chicago professors Dr. Jonathan Lear and Dr. Marvin Zonis, historian and Director of the Freud Museum in Vienna Dr. Ingrid Scholtz-Strasser, author Dr. Celia Brickman, and psychoanalysts Dr. Arnold Tobin, Dr. Arnold Richards, and Dr. Neal Spira.

Reservations requested by October 1. For information and registration, please call the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis at 312.922.7474.

Celia Brickman, PhD, is a faculty member and staff member at the Center for Religion & Psychotherapy of Chicago, where she is also co-director of the Education Program. She is the author of Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis.

Jonathan Lear, PhD, a member of the faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Chicago. His books include Freud (a volume in the Routledge Philosophers series) and Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation.

Robert A. Paul, Ph.D, is a faculty member at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and founder of the university’s Psychoanalytic Studies Program. Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, he wrote Moses and Civilization: The Meaning behind Freud’s Myth.

Arnold Richards, MD, is a faculty member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine; and former Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. A prolific author, his papers include “The Future of Psychoanalysis: The Past, Present and Future of Psychoanalytic Theory” (Psychoanalytic Quarterly 1990).

Ingrid Scholtz-Strasser is a historian with a special interest in late-nineteenth-century Austria. She is Chairwoman of the Sigmund Freud Foundation and Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna.

Neal Spira, MD, is a faculty member at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Northwestern University. Medical Director of Beacon Therapeutic in Chicago, he wrote a paper “Psychoanalysis and the Disavowed Religious Impulse” (Annual of Psychoanalysis, 2006-2007).

Arnold Tobin, MD, is a member of the faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. A speaker, writer, and researcher, he has a long-standing interest in the connection between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought.

Marvin Zonis, PhD, a research graduate of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and former Professor of Human Development and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. His books include The Kimchi Matters: Global Business and Local Realities in a Crisis-Driven World and Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah.

Conference fee, including lunch, is $125 | $62.50 for degree-seeking Spertus students