Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression, a Psychoanalytic Perspective

2 CE HOURS

NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs

This presentation addresses the fraught relationship between women and aggression, one that is troubled by age-old patriarchal forces that disparage the ambitions, assertions and voices of women.

Approached from a psychoanalytic perspective, the presentation details the sociocultural forces that infect a woman’s intrapsychic dynamics and compel her to sacrifice her goals and dreams.

The critical question of how a woman can ever succeed in this disabling environment is addressed through the stories of six highly influential women who reimagine their own “nastiness” as an innovative, vitalizing tool that powers their success.

Janet Rivkin Zuckerman, PhD, JD, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and previously practicing attorney. She is Former Director, current Faculty, and Clinical Consultant at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, and Clinical Consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. She conducts supervision and study groups in interpersonal/relational psychoanalysis and is in private practice in Rye, NY. She can be reached at janetzuckerman@gmail.com.

Round Table Discussants

Janet Shimer, LCSW, MBA is current Co-Executive Director of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is Faculty and Supervisor, WCSPP; She earned her Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Supervision at WCSPP. She is a Former Director of WCSPP Annual Conference; a Former Director of WCSPP Marketing, and Past President, WCSPP Psychoanalytic Association. She is in private practice in Armonk, NY.

Sylvia Steinert, LCSW is the current co-Executive Director of WCSPP and Faculty, WCSPP. Steinert holds certificates in psychoanalysis and supervision from WCSPP. She is in private practice in Ridgefield, CT and in Manhattan.

Diane Malkin, LCSW is incoming Co-Executive Director of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has been the Co-Director of Admissions for WCSPP for two years. Diane earned her Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Supervision at WCSPP. She has a private practice in Ardsley, New York.

Jennifer Havens, MD is the Arnold Simon Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Director of the Child Study Center at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, and Director of Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Strategy & Growth in the Office of Behavioral Health at NYC Health and Hospitals. Dr. Havens is an expert in the treatment of behavioral and mental health issues in children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma.