This program will involve a clinically based presentation of maternal erotic transferences and how these are addressed in verbatim clinical process. An accompanying PowerPoint will help explicate associated theorizing that aims to clarify the meaning of maternal eroticism, differences in related concepts, and how femininity and femaleness are internalized at different levels.

Andrea Celenza, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Florida Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Celenza is the recipient of several awards and has authored three books: Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts (Jason Aronson, 2007); Erotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios (Routledge, 2014); and Transference, Love, Being: Essential Essays from the Field (Routledge, 2022). Her writings have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Russian. She is in private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts.

PRACTITIONERS AND GENERAL PUBLIC: $40  |  STUDENTS: Free