Talk @ Women and Their Work

You are invited to a panel discussion on hoarding and collecting.

“Turning the Tables on Unsustainable Attainment”
Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 20, 7:00 PM

Join us for a conversation with three area psychotherapists: Gemma Marangoni Ainslie, Mary Holman, and Naomi Freireich. By creating magically gorgeous paintings Virginia Yount inspires us to admire and collect work that paradoxically addresses issues of the disordered collecting that is hoarding. Topics of discussion include various conscious and unconscious motives for hoarding, including traumatic loss, memorializing, a compulsion to acquire, and as an effect of isolation. This panel will discuss how Yount's artwork turns the tables on hoarding.

Panelists:

Naomi Freireich, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Austin. She is past president of Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and a founding member of Austin Women's Psychotherapy Project. She graduated from the University of Texas School of Social Work and received her certificate in Psychoanalysis from the National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has written and presented both on the local and national levels. In practice she works with adults and adolescents in individual as well as group settings.

Mary Holman, MA, LPC is a psychotherapist in private practice in Austin, working with individuals and couples. She is currently the Past President of the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and has also served as Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology President and Education Chair. She obtained her Master's degree from Saint Edward's University and completed a professional training program in object relations psychotherapy at the International Psychotherapy Institute near Washington, DC.

Gemma Marangoni Ainslie, PH.D., ABPP, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Austin. She is currently President of the Academy of Psychoanalysis and a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis in Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She has written and presented at local and national levels on psychoanalysis and arts (poetry and film), as well as on adolescence and on female development.

“Unsustainable Attainment” by Virginia Yount is on view in the gallery through November 12, 2010, free.
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