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The turn of the 20th century, when Freud was writing, was rife with sexual repression and resultant hysteria. Classical psychoanalysis was tailored to this population. But what if our recollection of that time is wrong? What if psychoanalytic understanding of repression isn’t all that different from ideas of repression today? Come join us for this ‘what if.’ We’ll rethink 20th Century history with English professor Carolyn Betensky of the University of Rhode Island and modern psychoanalyst William Sharp of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. With the presenters, we’ll explore ideas of repression in light of Victorian literature and discuss implications for psychoanalysis today.

Presenters:

Carolyn Betensky, Ph.D. is a Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, where she teaches courses on Victorian literature and culture as well as contemporary literature and theory. She is the author of Feeling for the Poor:  Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel (University of Virginia Press, 2010) and co-translator from the French of Eugene Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris (Penguin Classics, 2015). She is a former Book Review Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.

William Sharp, Psya.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and on the faculty at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis where he runs the Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. He has presented nationally and internationally on Freud and his life as well as on the evolution of psychoanalytic theory and technique. 

Connection Information
The event will be held over Zoom videoconferencing software. Event registration is required to receive connection information to the event. Event registration will be open until Sunday July 11, 11:45 PM. Connection information will be emailed after registration is complete. If you do not receive your connection information, please contact fraleym@bgsp.edu.

Continuing Education Objectives: 

Participants will be able to:

1. Explore ways in which today’s psychoanalysis is different from Freud’s day
2. Use data to critically evaluate assumptions around the state of sexuality in Freud’s time. 
3. Consider how modern day counseling and psychoanalysis would be different if there was not sexual repression commonly thought about in the Victorian age. 

BGSP is authorized to provide CEs for:  Psychologists (all levels), Social Workers, Counselors 

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Offering CEs for:  Psychologists (all levels), Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors

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