Marie Hoffman at The Seattle School
Marie Hoffman, PhD., Psychoanalyst and Author of the 2010 Relational Perspective Book Series
Beyond Alterity: The Path to Gratitude
Friday, September 16, 2011 | 7:00pm | $10 at the door
Respondents
- Ann Glasser, Ph.D.
- Peggy Crastnopol, Ph.D.
Event Details
Gratitude is a concept that regularly emerges in human discourse, though it has in the years following Melanie Klein’s magisterial Envy and Gratitude received little attention in psychoanalysis. Dr. Hoffman examines the reasons for the disappearance of "gratitude," offering evidence that begins with the seminal work of Benjamin and is extended through the hermeneutic of Ricoeur. Through interweaving philosophical and psychoanalytic resources, Dr. Hoffman proposes that "gratitude" lies at the very apex of the process of mutual recognition.
About Dr. Hoffman
Marie Hoffman, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and a psychoanalyst. She received her postdoctoral certification in psychoanalysis from the New York University Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is the 2006 Stephen Mitchell Scholar. She is co-director with her husband, Lowell, of Brookhaven Center for Counseling and Development in Allentown, PA. and has been adjunct professor at Alliance Theological Seminary, visiting professor at Rosemead School of Psychology and Fuller Theological Seminary, and is active in New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Marie has published articles in numerous peer-reviewed journals, as well as a 2011 book in Routledge’s Relational Perspectives Series entitled Toward Mutual Recognition: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Christian Narrative. She is co-founder—along with her husband—of the Society for Exploration of Psychoanalytic Therapies and Theology and is Executive Director of the newly forming Brookhaven Institute for Psychoanalysis And Christian Theology (BIPACT).
About the Respondents
Ann Glaser, Ph.D
Ann Glasser, Ph.D. is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Seattle. She has taught and supervised at the Center for Object Relations, the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis and currently at the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Studies.
Margaret Crastnopol, Ph.D.
Margaret Crastnopol (Peggy), Ph.D. is in private practice for the treatment of individuals and couples in Seattle, WA. She is a supervisor of psychotherapy and a faculty member of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City, and an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Crastnopol was a founding member of the board of directors of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She was co-founder and past associate director of the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis in Seattle, WA.