CIPS NewsBriefs - Winter 2023

LAISPS: Publications, Awards, Important Speaking Engagements

Reporter: Beth Siegel, PsyD, FIPA

Elizabeth Berlese, PhD Publications & Presentations:

Invited Presentations/Papers:

Elizabeth Berlese, Ph.D., presented a paper titled “The Body Narrates: Finding Truth in Psychoanalysis” at the 13th International Evolving British Object Relations Conference in Seattle on “Truth and Lies”. This is her second presentation at EBOR.   

The IPA has accepted Beth’s paper for the 53rd Congress in Cartagena next year.  Her paper is entitled “Fire in Her Belly: Aggression, Creative Living, and Creative Politics 

Michael J. Diamond, PhD, FIPA

Newly Published Book:
Ruptures In The American Psyche And The Appeal Of Trumpism: A Plea for Containment of a Society in Peril, Publication by Phoenix Publishing House (Oxfordshire, UK), Spring 2022.

Forthcoming Journal Publication:
Perverted containment: Trumpism, cult creation, and the rise of destructive American populism Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2023 (Spring), in press.

Invited Presentations:

  • Masculinity and its Discontents: A Clinical Perspective on the Male Psyche and Manhood’s Inherent Tensions. Invited Workshop, Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Tustin CA, January 2023.
  • Discussion With the Author: Michael J. Diamond on Masculinity and Its Discontents and Ruptures in the American Psyche. Invited Presentation for the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society (via Zoom), October 2022.
  • Masculinity and its Discontents: A Clinical Perspective on the Male Psyche and Manhood’s Inherent Tensions. Invited Workshop, Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS), Zoom May 2022 (with Marc Sanders).
  • Discussion of Jane Campion’s Film, The Power of the Dog. Invited Presentation for the COWAP Film Series, “Discussions on Gender,” (via Zoom), May 2022.
  • Masculinities – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: A Commentary on Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. Invited Presentation for the Film and Mind Series, New Center for Psychoanalysis, (via Zoom), March 2022.

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