Boundaries, Therapy, and the Writing Cure: The Case of Anne Sexton 

Presenter: Dawn Skorczewski, PhD
Discussants: Max Cavitch, PhD (UPenn) and Kathleen Ross, PhD, LCSW (Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia)
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016
Time: 7:00-8:30 pm
Location: Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

*This is a free event*

Dawn Skorczewski, PhD is Professor of English and Director of University Writing at Brandeis University. She is the author of Teaching One Moment at a Time: Disruption and Repair in the Classroom (University of Massachusetts, 2005), An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton (Routledge, 2012), and the co-editor of Pursuing Happiness (Macmillan, 2015). Her articles have appeared in American Imago, The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She was a 2014 Fulbright Professor of American Culture in Amsterdam, and is the recipient of the CORST prize from the American Psychoanalytic Institute. She also received the Gondor Award for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Education.

Educational Objectives

At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1) Articulate the difference between writing as therapy and therapy as a creative art.

2) Identify the ways in which boundary violations compromise the treatment of patients, and impact their creative lives and overall functioning.

3) Explain the ways in which patriarchal culture silences victims of abuse and mistreatment, as well as those who are mentally ill.

4) Articulate how boundary violations function as a part of patriarchal culture.

 

For further information, please contact the administrative office of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia:
Rockland – East Fairmount Park
3810 Mt. Pleasant Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19121
215-235-2345 | pcop@philanalysis.org

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