Doris Brothers, PhD

Kohut and Me. Kohut Memorial Luncheon Talk. 44th Annual IAPSP International Conference, Chicago, IL. October 21, 2023

With Jon Sletvold. Foreign Bodies: The Risks and Rewards of Relational Knowing. Symposium: Towards a More Ethical Psychoanalytic Practice: Foregrounding our Embodied Being in the World, Psychology and the Other Conference, October 6, 2023.

With Jon Sletvold. Talking Bodies: A New Language for Psychoanalysis and the Silence Between the Words.  Australia & New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy. September 29th, 2023.

With Jon Sletvold. Foreign Bodies: From Interpretation to Translation. The Seattle Psychoanalytic  Society and Institute. May 20, 2023.

The Embodiment of Grandiosity. Confer Webinar. November 4, 2022.

With Jon Sletvold. Embodied Connectedness and the Emergence of Freedom to Change. Paper presentation on Panel: Freedom: Embracing and Bearing the Terrors and Joys of Emergent Transformation.  43rd Annual International Conference, IAPSP. Washington, D.C. October 20, 2022.,

With Jon Sletvold. Us-Them and Fascist Experience. Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. Bergen, Norway, September 24, 2022.

With Jon Sletvold. Embodied Psychoanalysis. Live Webinar, Series Confer. September,2022-April 26, 2023.

With Jon Sletvold. Talking Bodies: An Embodied Psychoanalytic Re-envisioning of Theory. July 15, 2022.

With Jon Sletvold. How Bodies Speak: Embodied Narratives and a New Vision of Transference. Paper presentation at IARPP conference. Los Angeles, June 17, 2022.

Developmental Trauma and Intergenerational Transmission. All-day Class for Diploma in Psychopathology: Theory and Practice. October 9, 2021.

Secrets Freud Kept from Himself. Confer webinar. May 29, 2021

With Jon Sletvold. Embodied connectedness and the Freedom to Change. Invited Symposium, Psychology and the Other, freedom and context: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, September 17, 2021.

The Shrug. Live Webinar, Confer. Becoming Shameless: Encounters with Humiliation in the Therapeutic Relationship. July 3, 2021

With Jon Sletvold. When Psychoanalytic Theory Meets the Body: Re-envisioning, Transference, Repression/Dissociation and Resistance. 2-day workshop. Oslo, Norway. April 25, 2021.With Jon Sletvold. From Dissociation-Enactment to the Fracturing of Embodied Wholeness. Online conference: Ferenczi Center, the New School. October 24, 2020.

Secrets Freud Kept from Himself. Presentation at Confer Webinar, Freud’s Pandemic: A Traumatological Biography. Octpber 1, 2021

The Shrug: An Encounter with Mutually Embodied Shame. Confer Webinar, Becoming Shameless: Encounters with Humiliation in the Therapeutic Relationship. July 3, 2021

With Jon Sletvold. A Body-Based, Trauma-Centered Approach to Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. TRISP Workshop Series, New York, March 8, 2019

“From Twinship to ‘Skinship’”: Our Need for Contact in Troubled Times. Presented at Pre-Conference Workshop, Bringing Embodiment to Self Psychology and Meeting the Crises of Our Times. 41st Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Vienna, October 17, 2018.

Discussion of “Standing Against Silence” Cze;ow Milosz, Denise Leverton and Poetry of Witness” by David Shaddock. 41st Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Vienna, October 19, 2018.

With Jon Sletvold. Trauma and Body-Based Psychoaalysis and Psychotherapy. Confer, Dublin, October 13, 2018.

With Jon Sletvold. “Skinship” and Embodiment in the Age of Liquid Modernity. Presented on Panel, “Challenging the Touch Taboo in Psychoanalysis: Embodiment in an Age of Uncertainty.” 2018 IARPP Conference, New York, June 16, 2018.

“Self Psychology and the Healing of Trauma.” Keynote Speech, The First Symposium of Intersubjective Systems Theory and Self Psychology. Self Psychology Educational Project, (SPEC),Beijing, China, April 19, 2018.“Trauma and body-Based Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.”

With Jon Sletvold. Three-Day Workshop.  Self Psychology Educational Project, (SPEC), Beijing, China, April 20-22, 2018.

The Square and the Cross: Discussion of ‘Mutual Empathy: Imagine Symbol and Realization in the Treatment of Trauma’ by Sarah Pillsbury. 40th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, October 22, 2017.

“How can you leave me now?” Paper presented on Pre-Conference Workshop, The Analyst’s Analyst. 40th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, October 19, 2017.

After the World Collapses: The Altruistic Response to Societal Trauma: Paper presented on panel, “Sincerity, Altruism and Embodiment: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Ethical in Contemporary Psychoanalytsis. 2017 Psychology and the Other Conference. Cambridge Massachusetts, October 14, 2017.

“Changing Societal Narratives, Fighting “Crimes Against Humanity,” paper presented on panel, “Moving Narrative to the Center of Relational Psychoanalysis—A Cross-Cultural Perspective,”  2017 IARPP Conference, Sydney Australia, May 27, 2017

No Longer Beyond the Pale: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Asperger’s Patients, 2017 IARPP conference, Sydney Australia, May 26, 2017.

“Discussion of Eva Feindler’s ‘The Case of Anthony: A CBT Treatment “ 2016 Suffolk Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (SIPP) Conference. November 6, 2016.

“Lily’s Lament.” Plenary presentation. The Analyst’s Affect: The Way Back from Grlidlock, Blindshots and Loss of Vitality. 39th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, October 23, 2016.

“Lyle and the Sex Goddess,” Plenary presentation. The Far Reach of a Se;lf Psychological/Intersubjective Perspective: Treating Patients on the So-Called Spectrum. 39th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, October 23, 2016.

“Grief-Inspired Creativity: An Analytic Relationship Between Two Former Child Artists” IARPP. Rome, June, 2016

“Trauma Research and Self Psychology: How 9/11 Survivors Integrate the Irrationality of Wide-Scale Trauma.” With Koichi Togashi. 38th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Los Angeles, CA, October 17, 2015.

“Art as Other and the Grief of the Child Artist.” Pre-Conference Workshop, Self Psychology as Artistic Experience, with G. Hagman. 38th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Los Angeles, CA, October 15, 2015.

“Meeting with Triumph and Disaster and Demolishing Those Relational Imposters.” Annual International IARPP Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. June, 25, 2015. “Challenging the Success-Failure Polarity in Therapeutic Practice. TRISP, New York, May 8, 2015.

“Psychoanalyst in a Wounded World: JPSP, Nagoya, Japan, May 2, 2015.

“Trauma and Uncertainty” JPSP, Hiroshima, Japan, April 19, 2015.

Akela’s Homesickness.” Plenary presentation, 37th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Jerusalem, Israel, October 25, 2014.

“Bullies Close to Home” 37th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Jerusalem, Israel, October 24, 2014.“

‘A Relational Systems Approach to Intergenerational Trauma.”  Confer. London. December 2, 2013.

“A Relational Systems Approach to Traumatic Bullying.  11th Annual International IARPP Conference, Santiago, Chile. November 7, 2013.

“If Freud Were a Woman: Gender, Uncertainty, and the Ethics of Care. Pre-Conference Workshop, “Is the Ethical Gendered?” A Workshop Conversation on Ethics, Sex and Gender, Self Experience, and Psychoanalytic Politics. 36th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Chicago, IL. October 17, 2013.

“Screams and Shouts: Trauma Uncertainty and the Ethical Turn. “Psychology and the Other Conference.  Cambridge, MA. October 5, 201.3

“Traumatic Attachments: Intergenerational Trauma, Dissociation and the Analytic Relationship. Scientific Session, Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Toronto, CA. September 28, 2013.

“War, Peace and Promise-Making: On Becoming a Late-Life Activist. “Tel-Aviv University. Tel-Aviv, Israel, April 26, 2013.

“Doris Brothers: Psychoanalyst. War, Peace and Promise-Making: On Becoming a Late-Life Activist.” Saint Paul University. Ottawa, Ontario.

George Atwood’s ‘Radical Engagement,’ Posttraumatic Development, and Necessary Delusions. 35th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Washington, D.C. October 20, 2012.

“About Face: How an Analyst’s Traumatizing Bout of Bell’s Palsy Sparked a Creative Process.” Paper presented on panel, “Through ‘Harrowing Dread:’ The Analyst’s Trauma as Inspiration for Creative Investigation” at 10th Annual IARPP Conference, New York, March 1, 2012.

“A Day with Doris Brothers, Ph.D.” All-day conference at the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, Tampa Bay, Florida, March 10, 2012.

“Promise-Making and the Ethically Committed Analyst.” 34th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Los Angeles, CA. October 15, 2011.

“Discussion of ‘Psychoanalysis and Combat Trauma’ by Russell Carr.” Plenary 2, 34th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Los Angeles, CA. October 14, 2011.

“Promising, Bystanding, and Standing Beside: Relational Psychoanalysts as Healers and Activists.” IARPP Conference. Madrid Spain, June 30, 2011

With Jane Lewis. “On Homesickness, Exile, and the Self-Psychological Language of Homecoming.” 33rd Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Antalya, Turkey, October 24, 2010.

“Intergenerational Trauma and the Therapist.” Workshop, George Washington University Conference: Trauma: Intersections Among Narrative, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis, Washington, D.C. March 5, 2010.

“Trauma as Exile.” Panel, George Washington University Conference: Trauma: Intersections Among Narrative, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis, Washington, D.C. March 5, 2010.

“Confrontations with the Unforgivable: Using Hannah Arendt’s Relational Politics to Ponder Evil and the Limits of Analytic Empathy.” IARPP Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. February 25, 2010.

With Elizabeth Corpt and Michael Reison. “Intergenerationally Transmitted Trauma in Self Psychological Practice.” Pre-Conference Workshop. 32nd Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Chicago, October 22, 2009.

With Jane Lewis. “Being-Toward-Life: A Twice-Told Aotry of Death, Intergenerational Trauma and the Resolution of an Analytic Crisis.” 32nd Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Chicago, October 24, 2009.

“At the Outer Limits of Empathy: Interrogating Evil in Self-Psychological Practice.” 32nd Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Chicago, October 25, 2009.

“Engaging Our Dead: Intergenerational Trauma in the Therapeutic Relationship.” Confer Intergenerational Trauma Conference. Dublin, September 5, 2009.  London, September 11, 2009.

“Dissociation as the Reduction of Complexity in Traumatic Attachments.” 25th Annual Conference, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Chicago, November 16, 2008.

Discussion of “Revisiting the House of Mirrors” by Ellen Shumsky. 31st Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Baltimore, October 25, 2008.

“Intergenerational Relational Paradigms in Working with Childhood Trauma.” Psychological Trauma and the Child. London, September 19, 2008.

“Trust, Uncertainty, and Therapeutic Alliance in Trauma-Centred Treatment.” Therapeutic Alliance Seminars. London, June 4, 2008.

“Traumatic Attachments, Dissociation, and the Analytic Relationship.” IARPP Annual Conference, Relational Perspectives on Attachment Theory and Psychoanalytic Process.  Baltimore, May 31, 2008.

“When Death is the Co-Star: Ghosts, Ghouls and the Dissociative Transformation of Uncertainty.” American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), 28th Annual Spring Meeting. April 10, 2008

“Meet the Author.” American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), 28th Annual Spring Meeting. April 10, 2008

“The Shrug: Trauma, Uncertainty, and an Analyst’s Dark Moment.” American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), 28th Annual Spring Meeting. April 11, 2008

Discussion of “Radical Hope and Systems of Adequate Trust” by Donna M. Orange. 30th Annual

International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Los Angeles, October 12, 2007.

“Speaking of Gender: Jane Campion’s “Piano” and Other Sad and Sex-y Tales. 29th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Baltimore, October 29, 2005.

“Trauma, Dissociation and the Intersubjective Regulation of Uncertainty.” Montreal Study Group. April 10, 2005.

“Trembling on the Edge.” Keynote Address, The Mindfield of Terror and the Treatment of Trauma, 7th Annual  Conference of the Western Canada Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association. October 17-18, 2003.

Healing the Wounds of Healing: A Self Psychological Workshop on ‘Burnout'” 25th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Washington, D.C. October 26, 2002.

“Faith, Psychoanalysis, and the Intersubjective Regulation of Uncertainty.” 22nd Annual Spring Meeting, American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39). April 12, 2002.

“Intersubjectivity Theory: How it Changes Treatment.” NPAP 10th Annual Annette Overby Conference. New York, December 8, 2001. “The Dissociative Regulation of Uncertainty in the Face of Death. International Society for the Study of Dissociation. 18th International Fall Conference. New Orleans, December 2, 2001.

“Ghosts of the Silver Screen and Other Self-Psychological Reflections on the Acceptance of Death.” 24th Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. San Francisco, November 10, 2001.

with Ellen Lewinberg. Beyond Self Cohesion: Toward a Synthesis of Psychoanalysis and Spirituality. APA, Division (39), 21st Annual Spring Meeting. Santa Fe, April 27, 2001.

“Faith and Passion in Self Psychology, or, Swimming Against the ‘Postmodern Tide of Uncertainty.’ ” 23rd Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Chicago, November 11, 2000.

“Journey on the Road to Self-Trust.” What’s Trust Got to Do With it? Dialogues in Spirituality for Clinicians and Clergy.Limina Conference. Evanston, IL, April 8, 2000.

“Trust and Betrayal:” Fresh Thoughts on Trauma and Healing. 5th Annual Self Psychology Conference. Capetown, S. Africa, February 5, 2000.

Beyond the Black Holes: Trauma, Trust Betrayal, and Dissociation. Understanding the Self. Sydney, Australia, August 28, 1999.

with Ellen Lewinberg, “Beyond Self-Cohesion: Taking Spirituality our of the Self Psychology Closet.” 22nd Annual International Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Toronto, October, 1999.

“Cinderella Stories: Trust, Subjectivity, and a New Slant on Masochism in Women. Multiple Perspectives on Subjectivity: A European and American Dialogue. Rome, Italy. March 27, 1999.

with Ellen Lewinberg. “Contemplating the Death of Oediopus: Survival Tips for Self Psychologists.” 21st Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. San Diego, October 25, 1998

“Exploding the Myth of Unilateral Healing: Self-psychological Treatment and the Analyst’s Development.” 20th Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Chicago, Il. November, 17, 1997.

“Dissociation, Trauma, and the Multiplicity of Self-Experience.” TRISP Continuing Education Series: Self Psychology in the Late 90’s: Bold and Creative Applications. New York, April, 26, 1997.

“Exploring the ‘Bi’ Ways of Self-Experience: Dissociation, Alter Ego Selfobject Experience and Gender. “Nineteenth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Washington, D.C., October 20, 1996.

“The Leather Princess: Sadomasochism as the Rescripting of Trauma Scenarios.” Eighteenth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. San Francisico, October 22, 1995.

“Beyond the Black Holes: A Self-Trust Approach to Understanding and Treating Dissociative Disorders. The Inaugural Conferences of the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology. Toronto, Canada, October, 7, 1995.

“Beyond the Black Holes: A Self-Psychological Approach to Understanding and Treating Dissociative Disorders. Fifth Annual Spring Conference of the International Society for  the Study of Dissociation. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 12, 1995.

“Sadomasochism and the Rescripting of Trauma Scenarios: Effects on Treatment.” Fourth European Conference on Traumatic Stress. Neuilly S/Seine, France, May 8, 1995.

“The Betrayed and the Betrayer: Understanding and Working Through Sadomasochistic Enactments in the Therapeutic relationship.” SASP/TRISP  Continuing Education Series: Clinical Advances in Self Psychology–The Cutting Edge. New York, February 4, 1995

Commentator on Mini-panel: “Multiple Personality Disorders.” Sixteenth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Toronto, October 30, 1993

“Trust and Betrayal: Working Within the Heart of Trauma.” Fifteenth Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists Symposium. Toronto, May 1, 1993.

“Dr. Kohut and Mr. Z: A Case of Alterego Countertransference?” Fifteenth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Beverly Hills, October 10,1992.

“The Search for the Hidden Self: A Fresh Look at Alterego Transferences in Individual and Group Therapy.” Fourteenth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Chicago, October 12, 1991.

“The Recollection of Incest as a Consequence of Working Through Trust Disturbance in the Transference.” Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. New Orleans, October 31, 1990.

‘Dr. Kohut and Mr. Z: A Case of Alterego Countertransference?” Fifteenth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Beverly Hills, October 10,1992.

“The Trustworthy Selfobject: Psychological Giving and the Therapeutic Relationship.” TRISP/SASP Annual Conference. New York, May 5, 1990.

“Trust Disturbance and the Revictimization of Trauma Survivors.” Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. San Francisco, October 30, 1989.

“Treating Trust Pathology in Trauma Survivors: A Self-Psychological Approach.” Twelfth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. San Francisco. October 14, 1989.

“Trust Disturbances and the Treatment of Trauma.” SASP/TRISP Continuing Educational Series. Focus on Contemporary Clinical Issues. New York City. November 19, 1988.

“Trust Disturbance and the Sexual Revictimization of Incest Survivors: A Self-Psychological Perspective.” Eleventh Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. Washington, D.C. October 16, 1988.

“Discussion of a Freudian Psychoanalytic Therapy Case Presented by Lisa Goldsmith Ph.D.” SASP/TRISP Treatment Case Presentation Series. New York City: September 19, 1987.

With Richard B. Ulman. “The Shattered Fantasies: A Self-Psychological Theory of Trauma.” Eighth Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self. New York City. October 6, 1985.