SIGMUND FREUD MUSEUM - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board
- Research Director
- Research
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- Professor of History at Williams College
A historian with psychoanalytic training, Thomas Kohut, PhD, is the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. From 2000 to 2006, Kohut served as Dean of the Faculty at Williams. He is the author of three books, most recently, Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past. He has also published articles on a number of historical and psychological topics, including on the German humorist Wilhelm Busch, on letters from German soldiers at the battle of Stalingrad, and on psychoanalysis and history.
Eric Bettelheim, Ph.D. trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist with the Society of Analytic Psychology in London. Eric was formerly the managing partner in London of a Wall Street law firm. He attended Oxford University and the University of Chicago and was called to the English Bar. After 20 years practicing law he established a private group of companies dedicated to the ethical and sustainable use of tropical forests. He is currently in private practice in London and has recently received a Ph.D. in neuroscience at King's College London.
Gohar Homayounpour is a psychoanalyst and Gradiva award-winning author. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI), and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). She is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst of the Freudian Group of Tehran, of which she is also founder and immediate past president. She is also a member of the IPA group Geographies of Psychoanalysis. Homayounpour has published various psychoanalytic articles, including in the International and Canadian Journals of Psychoanalysis. Her first book, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran (2012, MIT) won the Gradiva award and has been translated into languages including French, German, Italian, Turkish and Spanish. Her latest book is titled Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning (2022, Routledge). Other recent publications and book chapters include "The Dislocated Subject" (2019) and "Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam" (2019).
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- Vice Chairman
- Endowed Professor and Associate Professor
Herman Westerink is Endowed Professor and Associate Professor for philosophy of religion at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He did his PhD at the University of Groningen and wrote his professorial dissertation (Habilitation) at the University of Vienna. He has published many books and articles on Freudian psychoanalysis, sexuality, subjectivity and religion. Amongst others he published a monograph on Freud's theories of the sense of guilt (2009), a monograph on and text editions of the first edition of Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (2016, 2021, with Philippe Van Haute). Also, he published a monograph on Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality (2019). Recently he published a monograph on Freud's metaphysics of trauma (2022, with Philippe Van Haute). He is co-editor of the book series "Sigmund Freuds Werke: Wiener Interdisziplinäre Kommentare" (Vienna UP) and of the book series "Figures of the Unconscious" (Leuven University Press). He is member of the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (ISPP/SIPP) and its Freud Research Group.
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- Professor of the Humanities
Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. At Harvard, he served as the director of the Humanities Center, founding director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, and in the inaugural position of Senior Advisor to the President and Provost. He is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, cultural change and power, contemporary art, and cosmopolitanism. His works include The Location of Culture, the edited volume Nation and Narration, and forewords to Frantz Fanon's major works. Bhabha has also written articles on contemporary art for Artforum and exhibition catalogues. He is a Corresponding Fellow at The British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and Critic-in-Residence at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He holds honorary degrees from Université Paris 8, University College London, Freie Universität Berlin, and Stellenbosch University.
Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D. is the past president, and supervising and personal analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), San Francisco. She is on the faculty at PINC and at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She was the 2008 Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna. She is a member and on the Board of the Wiener Arbeitskreis für Psychoanalyse and works now as a psychoanalyst in Vienna. She has published numerous articles on the interfaces between psychoanalysis, the visual arts and film. She is currently working on her book on Edouard Manet, Enframing The Gaze.
Lisa A. Raskin is a psychologist and neuroscientist with a strong interest in psychoanalysis. She has been the John William Ward Professor at Amherst College, Amherst, MA for over 40 years and the former Dean of the Faculty (Vice President of Academic Affairs) and Acting President of the College at Amherst College. She taught courses in History of Psychiatry, Psychopathology, Psychology of Aging, Research publications on developmental psychobiology, and developmental psychopharmacology. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey in Psychology and Neuroscience and an M.A. of Princeton University in Psychology. Lisa Raskin is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Lisa Appignanesi OBE is a prize-winning writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. She was President of English PEN, Chair of the Freud Museum London, and until 2020 Chair of the Royal Society of Literature of which she is now a vice-president. She is a Visiting Professor at King's College London. Her non-fiction books include Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love (2018), Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness (2014), All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion (2011), the prize-winning Mad Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 (2008); Freud's Women (1992/2005, with John Forrester); a biographical portrait of Simone de Beauvoir (2005), amongst others. She is also the author of an acclaimed family memoir, Losing the Dead (1999) and nine novels, including The Memory Man (2004, which won a Holocaust Fiction Prize) and Paris Requiem (2001/2014).
Oleksandr Filts, Prof. Dr., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist who heads the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Faculty of Postgraduate Education of the National Medical University Danylo Halytsky Lviv. He is also a founding member and president of the Ukrainian Umbrella Association for Psychotherapy. In 1994, together with Austrian psychotherapists, he founded a training project for group psychotherapy, which he still directs together with Liudmyla Samsonova. From 2005 to 2007, Professor Filts was President of the European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP). Working with crises, traumatic experiences and their consequences is one of the many focal points of his work.
The Rev. Pamela Cooper-White, MDiv, MA, Ph.D., LCPC is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychology and Religion, and former Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs, at Union Theological Seminary, New York. She also serves as Assisting Priest at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. An award-winning author, she has published 10 books, including Old & Dirty Gods: Religion, Antisemitism, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2018); Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological Perspective; and was co-editor and co-translator of Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2021). Her latest book is The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: How People Are Drawn in and How to Talk Across the Divide (Fortress Press, 2022). She was recently awarded honorary membership in the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), New York, and is an Academic Member of the America Psychoanalytic Association; serves on the editorial Board of the Journal of Pastoral Theology; and the Steering Committee of the Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion; and is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has lectured frequently in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. Rev. Pamela Cooper-White, PhD, MDiv, MA, PhD, LCPC - Union Theological Seminary (utsnyc.edu).
Job Titles:
- Business Director
- Chairman
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- Founder and Director of Vienna Psychology Praxis
Petra Vospernik is the founder and director of Vienna Psychology Praxis, a vibrant group practice with locations in Madison Square Park and the West Village of New York City. Her treatment focus is on professionals and couples. Originally from Vienna, Austria, she earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology in New York and has trained and worked in multiple international settings, including The Tavistock Clinic (London, UK), The Cassel Hospital (Richmond, UK), Goethe University (Germany) as well as Lenox Hill and Mount Sinai hospitals (New York). Before becoming a clinical psychologist, she worked as Senior Legal Counsel at the European Central Bank. Petra Vospernik holds a law degree from the University of Vienna and a graduate diploma in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
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- Accounting, Human Resources, and Facility Management
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- Professor in Latin American Literature at Princeton University
Rubén Gallo is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor in Latin American Literature at Princeton University, where he has taught since 2002. He is the author of many books on Twentieth Century culture, including Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Cultural Revolution (2006, MIT Press, winner of the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize), Freud's Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (2010, MIT, winner of the Gradiva Prize), Proust's Latin Americans (2014, Hopkins). He is also a novelist and was published two books on Cuba: Teoría y práctica de la Habana (2017) and Muerte en La Habana (2021). His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Chinese. In 2020 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Victor Mazin, Ph.D., is a practicing psychoanalyst. He is the founder of Freud's Dream Museum in St. Petersburg (1999) and an honorary member of The Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles). He is the head of the department of theoretical psychoanalysis at the East-European Institute of Psychoanalysis (St. Petersburg), and associate professor at The Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University, honorary professor of the Institute of Depth Psychology (Kiev). He is also a translator from English and French into Russian, and was editor-in-chief of the Kabinet journal and member of the editorial boards of the journals Psychoanalysis (Kiev), European Journal of Psychoanalysis (Rome), Transmission (Sheffield), Journal for Lacanian Studies (London). He has published numerous articles and books on psychoanalysis, deconstruction, cinema and visual arts.