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On the Occasion of Freud’s 150th Birthday       

Freud’s Place in Our Minds. A Day of Reflection on Sigmund Freud’s Significance in the 21st Century 

Estate of Edmund Engelman/ courtesy of Leica Gallery, NYC      

In honor of Sigmund Freud’s 150th birthday, representatives of the four major US psychoanalytic organizations will meet at the Austrian Embassy to discuss the significance of Sigmund Freud’s legacy in the 21st century.

The symposium concludes with a panel discussion moderated by the Austrian Ambassador, Eva Nowotny, with Sheila Hafter Gray (American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry), Harold Blum (American Psychoanalytic Association), Nancy McWilliams (American Psychological Association, Division 39, Psychoanalysis), Miriam Pierce (National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work), and Thomas Aichhorn (Vienna Psychoanalytic Society).

Eli Zaretsky, Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and author of Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis will deliver the key note speech for this event. 

 September 15, 2006  @ 7:30 pm.  Embassy of Austria
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