Public Lecture COWAP-100 yrs Melb 17 April
January 15, 2010
On 100th Anniversary of founding of the International Psychoanalytical Association, the Committee on Women in Psychoanalysis (COWAP) presents a morning of talks.
Women & Psychoanalysis - 100 years on, what's changed?
Chair: Ms Fran Hattam, Assoc. Member APAS
"Freud’s Dark Continent, colonisation & travel advice"
Janet Chauvel, Member APAS, takes up Freud’s metaphor and suggests that psychoanalytic explorations of women’s sexuality and claims to understanding can be compared to the process of colonisation, with its attendant political tensions and multicultural accommodations.
"Transmission of early trauma and transition to parenthood"
Vivienne Elton, Training Analyst, APAS, will outline new thinking about the resonance of trauma in the transition to becoming a parent.
"In my beginning is my end’: Grandmothers, mothers and infants"
Josephine Beatson, Consultant Psychiatrist, and Frances Thomson Salo, Chair of COWAP, will discuss new thinking about becoming a grandmother and the mother-infant dyadic relationship.
Concluding discussion
Date: Saturday, 17h April , 2010 9.30 am – 12.30 pm.
(Registration from 9.10 am)
Venue: Carroll Room, The Treacy Centre, The Avenue, Parkville
Cost: Early Bird till 14th April $40.00 inc GST ($15 for students with ID)
After 14 April $50.00 inc GST
Please send cheques, payable to ‘F Thomson Salo’, along with your name, contact phone number and email address to:
COWAP Organiser, P.O. Box 27, 215 High Street, Ashburton, 3147
Receipts available at door.
For registration queries: COWAP Organiser on nessowen@bigpond.com
Enquiries: Frances Thomson Salo, 9510 7716, fvtsalo@unimelb.edu.au
