Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture

A History Of The Annual Event That Honors WTCI’s Dear Friend

2024

Unsettled Wellness: Towards a Praxis of Body Sovereignty

Athia N. Choudhury, PhD

2023

Internationalist Feminism: Towards An Anti-Oppressive Psychoanalytic Praxis

Lara Sheehi, PsyD

2022

Relationship to the Earth: Colonialist and Indigenous Perspectives

Carol Crowe, Marisa Mabli and Aleksandra Rayska

2021

Object Relations, Fierce Love and The (Antiracist) Container That Cures

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis

2020

Race Matters: The Psychodynamics of Racism in America

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis

2019

Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

Carol Gilligan, Naomi Snider

2018

Sexual Objectification: From Broadway to the Boardroom

Tomi-Ann Roberts, Athena Jones, Christina Baker Kline

2017

 Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Change Your Sex Life

Dr. Emily Nagoski

2016

The Business of Being Made: Exploring Assisted Reproduction Technologies

Dr. Katie Gentile

2015

Boylan Storytelling, Justice and Gender

Jennifer Finney

2014

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

Esther Perel, LMFT

2013

The Bully Society: Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America’s Schools

Jessie Klein, Ph.D.

2012

Can Sisterhood Be Global: Reproduction, Social Justice, And Feminism Across Borders

Dr. Sayantani DasGupta

2011

Vienna 1924: Suffrage, Psychoanalysis, and the ‘New Woman’

Elizabeth Ann Danto, Ph.D

2010

By Herself: Woman, Solitude and Creativity

Danielle Knafo, Ph.D.

2009

Plastic Bodies, Malleable Minds: Women and Cosmetic Surgery

Catherine Baker-Pitts, Ph.D.

2008

Challenging the Culture of Triumph: Illness as Limitation and Loss

Kathlyn Conway, Ph.D.

2007

Is Feminism Good For Your Sex Life? The Pleasures and Perils of Peer Marriage

Suzanne Iasenza, Ph.D.

2006

Revenge in Context

Nina K. Thomas, Ph.D.

2005

Class and Splitting in the Clinical Setting: The Ideological Dance in the Transference and Countertransference

Susan Gutwill, MS, LCSW and Nancy Hollander, Ph.D.

2004

Envisioning Mutuality: How Our Commitment to Women’s Subjectivity and Equality Have Changed Psychoanalysis

Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D.

2003

The Psychoanalyst in the World: Winnicott, Lacan, and My Work With Homeless Women in Philadelphia

Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D.

2002

How Does Treatment Help? On “Not Knowing”: Further Explorations at the “Intimate Edge”

Darlene Ehrenberg, Ph.D.

2001

The Birth of Pleasure

Carol Gilligan, Ph.D.