Talks

Plenary presentation: Art and its alphabets in psychosis. New Directions. Washington, DC, October 23, 2015.

Conference presentation: The psychotic subject as witness and archivist of Other realms, The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses, New York, NY, March, 2015.

Keynote Lecture. Hallucinated bodies: art and its alphabets in psychosis.  Austen-Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, December 5, 2014

Analyst Candidate Presentation.  Palimpsest: The desire to be an analyst. Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, San Francisco, CA, November 8, 2014.

Keynote Lecture.  The Analyst’s Act and the Child’s Desire.  Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, Chicago, IL, Oct. 24, 2014.

Poetry: Writing into the Unknown. Poetry reading and workshop. Austen-Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, Oct. 16, 2014.

Presentation: Poetry- a passage into the Symbolic.  Study Weekend: Lacan’s fourth seminar, Object Relations (1957-57), Association of Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, July 5-7, 2014.

Clinical Case Presentation: Becoming an Analysand, Association of Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, June 21, 2014.

Speaker for Book Launch: Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, June 19, 2014.

Clinical Case Presentation: Fourth year of analysis.  Freudian School of Quebec, Quebec City, Canada, June 3, 2013.

Lecture: Ferenczi,  Davoine, Gaudilliere and Lacan: A history of thinking about Trauma through Psychoanalysis, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, April 1, 2013.

Paper: Ghosts of the Ineluctable: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language, International  Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to the Psychoses, Chicago, October 27, 2012.

Workshop: All around a little square- painting and poetry. Ag Bothántaíocht, Artists’ Retreat, Wicklow, Ireland, July 26-29, 2012.

Public Lecture: Allowing Young People to Say the Unsayable, Headstrong, Dublin, Ireland, June 14, 2012.

Clinical Case Presentation: Third year of analysis.  Freudian School of Quebec, Quebec City, Canada, June 1, 2012.

Poetry Reading: Approximate Names, Freudian School of Quebec, Summer Seminar.  Quebec City, Canada, June 7, 2010.

Presentation: Opening up psychological inquiry to psychosis, CUNY Graduate Center New York, NY, May, 2010.

Presentation: Psychosis: A Poetics for the Human, The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses, Austin Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, November, 2010.

Fiction Reading: Incandescent Alphabet, Club Art, Quebec City, Canada, May, 2009

Creative Writing Workshop, Lismore Writers’ Festival, Lismore, Ireland, June, 2009.