LGBTQ STUDY GROUP of the William Alanson White Institute invites you to a conversation with:
JILL SALBERG, Ph.D., ABPP
Trauma, Gender, and the Stories of Jewish Women:
The Other Within
Wed. January 4, 2023
This paper explores how trauma (individual, cultural, and historical) experiences and gender stories of women behaving more like men become intermingled. Drawing upon stories of women in Jewish literature (Beruriah and Yentl), psychoanalytic theories of gender, and intergenerational transmission of trauma, I will unpack how women carry vulnerability and helplessness whereas men are seen as stronger and agentic. The author believes that gender performance and passing highlight how gender becomes enlisted as a mode of traumatic transmission and possibly one type of internal psychic reparative resolution to complex traumatic experiences.
JILL SALBERG, Ph.D., ABPP is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and a member of IPTAR. She is the editor of and contributor to Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives (2010) and Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (2022). She has co-edited with Sue Grand, The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, and Transgenerational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference, (2017), both books won the Gradiva Award (2018). She has conceived of and co-edits a book series, Psyche and Soul: Psychoanalysis, Spirituality and Religion in Dialogue at Routledge/Taylor&Francis Group. She is in private practice in Manhattan and online.
For inquiries regarding the LGBTQ Study Group please contact
Esin Egit, PhD (Chair): e.egit@wawhite.org