“Mind, Brain and Body: Neuropsychoanalysis and the Impact of Individual Differences on Subjective Experience”. Sanville Institute, Berkeley, CA. (2024)
Presentation, “Introduction to Neuropsychoanalysis”.
Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Town Meeting. (2023)
Presented original Paper, “Sophie Freud: Born Under a Mighty Shadow”.
Congress of the Neuropsychoanalysis Association Tel Aviv, Israel. (2023)
Oxford – Style Debate, argued against the motion: This house believes that PLAY is not a drive.
Biennial Conference of the American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, Chicago, Illinois. (2023)
Presented original paper, “Sophie Freud, Learning from Psychoanalytic Social Work Pioneers.” Presentation, “Introduction to Neuropsychoanalysis’”
Congress of the Neuropsychoanalysis Association San Juan, Puerto Rico. (2022)
Presented original paper, “The Containment of Uncertainty in Psychotherapy: Relational-Intersubjective Theory, Enactments and the Free Energy Principle.”
Biennial Conference of the American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work Philadelphia, PA. (2021)
Organizer and moderator for panel of original papers, “Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working in Community Mental Health”.
Biannual Conference of the American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, Durham, NC (2019). Presented paper, “Neuropsychoanalysis and the Repressed: Implications for Long-term Treatment in Clinical Social Work Practice”.
Patient and Family Services of Abramson Cancer Center
Penn Cancer Network Social Work Affiliates (2013)
Presented case study, “The Intersection of Complex Trauma with a Diagnosis of Breast Cancer”.
Annual Program Meeting of The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
Washington, D.C. (2012)
Presented paper, coauthored with Margaret Shapiro, MSW, “Teaching Trauma Theory and Practice in MSW Programs: A Clinically Focused, Case-Based Method”.
Trauma Through the Life Cycle from a Strengths-Based Perspective
International conference co-sponsored by NYU Silver School of Social Work and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel (2012)
Presented poster, with co-author Margaret Shapiro, MSW, “The Unique Role of Clinical Social Work in the Training of Trauma Practitioners: Values, Knowledge Base and Practice Wisdom”.
Society for Social Work and Research (SWWR)
Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida (2011)
Presented research. “Mending Fences: How Married Individuals Perceive Breaks in their Connection to their Spouses, and How Couples Repair Them”.