Psychology of Women

The Psychology of Women Through Art & Literature
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. • 6.0 C.E. Hours
COURSE DESCRIPTION Creative artists are generally a generation or more ahead of psychological understanding of cultural changes. This intensive introductory course represents more than a decade of study of women’s art and literature, and creates a space in which the emerging voices and visual representations of women can be heard and seen more clearly and more convincingly by both men and women. Dr. Hedges will show slides of more than 200 pieces of visual art interspersed with vignettes from 50 novels, short stories, poems, and biographies to illustrate the cyclical concerns of women and the ways women have been portrayed by women artists over the last 150 years. Also featured, are the clinical and theoretical contributions of contemporary women psychologists and psychoanalysts toward an understanding of psychological development that is distinctly female.
TESTIMONIALS Here are some comments about the program taken from recent course evaluations:
TOPICS • Women’s Attitudes Toward Uniquely Women’s Issues • Male Defenses Against Women’s Intuitions & Powers • Female Sexual & Gender Identity Issues • The Electra Complex and Cinderella Themes as Expressive of Female Developmental Concerns • A Developmental Series of Desires and Fears as they Manifest in the Relational Lives of Women • Women’s Anxieties Regarding Assuming New Places in the Economic, Legal, and Success Systems That Surround Them • The Dark Side of the Feminine Psyche • Women’s Psychological Differences in Ego and Superego Content, Gender Identity Development, Relational Capacities, Self-structures, and Sexuality
GOALS At the conclusion of this program you should be better able to: • Listen more accurately to your clients as they express concerns that are a part of the current global consciousness raising. • Recognize the emerging consciousness structures of women as depicted through art and literature. • Understand how women are re-writing psychological theories of development. SPEAKER PROFILE
	Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., ABPP is a Psychologist (#PSY 3567) and Psychoanalyst in private practice specializing in the training of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, the director of the Listening Perspectives Study Center and the founding director of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute. He holds faculty appointments at the California Graduate Institute, and the University of California, Irvine, Department of Psychiatry. He is the author of numerous publications on the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, including the following texts Listening Perspectives in Psychotherapy, Interpreting the Countertransference, Strategic Emotional Involvement, Working the Organizing Experience, and Remembering, Repeating & Working Through Childhood Trauma. His books on professional issues, ethics, and risk management in psychotherapy include Therapists at Risk and Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy.