Violence in Schools, Homes, and on the Streets: Psychoanalytic Collaboration with Educators, Law Enforcers, and Community Leaders

Dr. Lois Oppenheim, Chair, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, has organized and will be a participant in a conference entitled "Violence in Schools, Homes, and on the Streets:  Psychoanalytic Collaboration with Educators, Law Enforcers, and Community Leaders."

The conference will take place at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (247 East 82nd Street, NYC) on Friday evening, Feb. 7th, and all day Sat., Feb. 8th, 2014. 

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Lloyd Sederer, Medical Director of the New York State Office of Mental Health (the nation’s largest state mental health system). 

Other participants include mental health professionals in private practice, school psychologists, the New Haven Chief of Police, and others involved in the Newtown tragedy, both with law enforcement and the treatment of trauma in the surviving children and other family members. 

The focus of the conference will be on the relation between bullying and childhood trauma and on psychoanalytic and related principles that inform educational, law enforcement, and community responses to mass violence.  For early bird rates and other registration information, please go to: http://nypsi.org/#Event/11279