Nathan M. Szajnberg Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Nathan Szajnberg is the Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, on the Faculty at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and formerly Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University. He is the author or editor of four books and one novella: Educating the Emotions (on Bruno Bettelheim’s ideas); Lives Across Time (with Henry Massie); Reluctant Warriors (the maturation and inner lives of elite Israeli soldiers) and Sheba and Solomon’s Return: Ethiopian Children in Israel (the foundational study for this roundtable). He studied at the University of Chicago College and Medical School, where his teachers included Bruno Bettelheim and Saul Bellow. He graduated from the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a Training Analyst of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and IPA. His website is: www.szajnberg.com Participant In: From Children’s Sights to Our Insights: Ethiopian Children’s Drawings, Stories and Inner Lives Saturday, January 25th, 2014 2:30-4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » For a study by Nathan Szajnberg, Ethiopian/Israeli six-year old children drew pictures of their lives, of their fantasies and fears, hopes and wishes. Their compelling drawings and stories will be the foundation upon which our roundtable participants will bring to bear art historical, linguistic, and psychoanalytic perspectives to explore questions of representation, the developmental issues related… read more » Identity and Fanaticism Saturday, March 1, 2014 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » “I have specially in mind that a small but determined group, active in every nation, composed of individuals who, indifferent to social considerations and restraints, regard warfare, the manufacture and sale of arms, simply as an occasion to advance their personal interests and enlarge their personal authority. “But recognition of this obvious fact is merely… read more »
From Children’s Sights to Our Insights: Ethiopian Children’s Drawings, Stories and Inner Lives Saturday, January 25th, 2014 2:30-4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » For a study by Nathan Szajnberg, Ethiopian/Israeli six-year old children drew pictures of their lives, of their fantasies and fears, hopes and wishes. Their compelling drawings and stories will be the foundation upon which our roundtable participants will bring to bear art historical, linguistic, and psychoanalytic perspectives to explore questions of representation, the developmental issues related… read more »
Identity and Fanaticism Saturday, March 1, 2014 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » “I have specially in mind that a small but determined group, active in every nation, composed of individuals who, indifferent to social considerations and restraints, regard warfare, the manufacture and sale of arms, simply as an occasion to advance their personal interests and enlarge their personal authority. “But recognition of this obvious fact is merely… read more »