Women Psychoanalysts: Stories & Theories

Women Psychoanalysts: Stories & Theories

Osher Online | Available (Membership Required)

U of A Fayetteville, AR 72701 United States

Online Through Zoom

Open to Current OLLI Members ONLY!

Tuesday, July 9, 2024-Tuesday, August 13, 2024

6:00 PM-7:30 PM on Tue

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$65.00

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The women included in this course were practitioners of psychoanalysis and wrote extensively about their work. These women have been selected because of the significance of their thought for psychoanalytic practice. Some of them were ostracized by other psychoanalysts and the importance of their thought may have been neglected, ignored, or forgotten, and their work may have been derogated. We will articulate what is different about the contributions of women to psychoanalytic theory. And we will concentrate on women who were considered important: Karen Horney, Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, Ana Maria Rizzuto and others. The goal of this series is to bring out the indisputable contributions of these four women to psychoanalysis and the practice of psychotherapy.

Class schedule: Live lecture will take place on Tuesdays via ZOOM 

  • Tuesdays, July 09 Live lecture 1  
  • Tuesdays, July16 Live lecture 2  
  • Tuesdays, July 23 Live lecture 3  
  • Tuesdays, July 30 Live lecture 4  
  • Tuesdays, August 06 Live lecture 5 
  • Tuesdays, August 13 Live lecture 6 

  • As this class is delivered by the National Resource Center for OLLIs (NRC) at Northwestern University, you will receive a welcome email from osheronline@northwestern.edu.  The email will include your credentials (username & password) as well as a hyperlink to the Osher Online Website through which you will access your course website.

    Women Psychoanalysts

Espin, Ph.D., Olivia

Oliva M. Espín is Professor Emerita in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University and the California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University. 

A native of Cuba, she received her BA in Psychology from the University of Costa Rica and her PhD from the University of Florida, specializing in counseling and therapy with women from different cultures and in Latin American Studies. She has done post-doctoral work at Harvard University with a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health.