Participants interested in undertaking an independent writing project will have the option of working with a consultant. The topic selected may be theoretical, clinical, or applied, and may be on research already in progress. Some students may choose to write memoir, fiction, or poetry. Participants can select from an international roster of consultants; the current panel. Program advisors will help the participants to select appropriate consultants. In addition, we will make available bibliographies of the consultants’ writings to assist in consultant selection. Work with the consultant may include discussions of how to define the research area, finding resources for background study, the elaboration of the concept, and review of successive drafts of the paper. Collaboration may be conducted by mail, phone, fax, e-mail, or, where possible, in person. The participant will pay for the consultant’s time.
The Things They Carry
FUTURE TOPICS
- What’s In Mind? (Nov 2022)
- Poetry and Psychoanalysis (Feb 2023)
- Sisterhood (May 2023)
- Life after death (Nov 2023)
- Trauma of Discovery (Feb 2024)
- Psychoanalysis (May 2024)
- Untangling Racialized Fantasies for Clinical Practice and Writing (Nov 2024)
- Can We Talk? (Jan 2025)
- Maternity and its Upheavals (May 2025)
- Eulogy, Elegy, Epic (Nov 2025)
- Swimming in Space (Feb 2026)
PAST SPEAKERS
Co-Chairs of New Directions
Robert Winer, MD
Kerry Malawista, PhD
Martha Dupecher, PhD, MSW
Catherine Anderson, PhD
Anne Adelman, PhD