Endowed Lectures
The Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute hosts three endowed lecture series, each honoring a distinguished figure in the history of the Institute and the field of psychoanalysis. These lectures are open to professionals and the public. The Dewald and Fingert lectures bring nationally and internationally recognized speakers to the community, while the Cohn Lecture is presented by a candidate or member of the Institute faculty.
The I. H. Cohn, MD Lecture
The Paul A. Dewald, MD Lecture
The Hyman H. Fingert, MD Memorial Lecture Series
The I. H. Cohn, MD Lecture
The I. H. Cohn, MD Lecture has been established through the generosity of Thomas and Sally Cohn, and named in honor of Mr. Cohn’s father, Isadore H. Cohn, MD. Dr. Cohn was one of the innovators of adolescent and group psychotherapy in New York.
12/11/2025
What Bion Meant by “Dying”
Harold Braswell, PhD, LCSW
10/10/2024
When the Teacher’s Feelings Hurt
Edmund Sprunger, MSW
3/14/2024
Increasing Adaptive Racial Socialization for Black Boys: A Culturally Competent Psychodynamic Analysis
Huey Hawkins Jr., PhD, LCSW
3/23/2023
Age of Consent: Fetish, Kink & Politics of Sexual Exploration
Alison Feit, PhD
4/1/2022
Attachment Trauma and Developmental Disruption
Chester Smith, M.Ed, LPC
4/16/2021
Neuropsychoanalysis: Reconciling Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
Mary Nielsen, MD
3/6/2020
The Couch Meets the Dragon: Emerging Psychoanalytic Training in Modern-Day China
Tom Campbell, MD
10/26/2018
The Songs and Poetry of Leonard Cohen: The Transformation of Longing
Bernard Feinberg, MD
10/20/2017
The Re-Dawning of the Veil
Nilufer Yalman, PhD
10/16/2015
Yes, Virginia, You Can Be a Little Pregnant: False and Denied Pregnancies — When the Mind and Body are in Conflict
William D. Kenner, MD
10/17/2014
Searching for Bruce Springsteen: An Intersubjective Perspective
Peter Ruderman, MSW
11/1/2013
Fumbling in the Dark or Cupid and Psyche Today
J. Todd Dean, MD
3/8/2013
Is It True Love? Sympathy, Passion and Empathy as Illustrated Through the Wisdom of Leave it to Beaver
Volney Gay, PhD
9/23/2011
The Beatles’ White Album: A Multimedia Psychoanalytic Excursion into Pepperland
Michael Brog, MD
10/29/2010
True Blood: Our Fascination with the Vampire
Andrew Chirchirillo, PhD
10/16/2009
Toward an Understanding of the Role of Uncertainty in an Uncertain World
Gail Glenn, MAEd
1/25/2008
Sixty Years of Psychoanalysis: A Personal Odyssey
Paul A. Dewald, MD
10/27/2006
Serious Play: Passion or Poison
Eric J. Nuetzel, MD
10/28/2005
Tomboys, Sissies and other “Gender Outlaws”
Britt-Marie Schiller, PhD
The Paul A. Dewald, MD Lecture
The Paul A. Dewald, MD Lecture is underwritten by individual donations made to the Paul A. Dewald Education Fund of the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. Established by Dr. Dewald’s family to honor his long-standing interest in education and his contributions to the Institute, the Education Fund supports special educational events and projects related to the application of psychoanalytic concepts to issues of interest to lay and professional groups. In 1995, the Board designated this fund to support the first Paul A. Dewald, MD Community Lecture.
10/4/2025
The New Other: A.I. What Have We Created and Why?
Amy Levy, PsyD
5/16/2024
Traumatophilia: Notes on Libidinal Fugitivity
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD
4/28/2023
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Facing Ethical Fragility in Psychoanalysis
Jane V. Kite, PhD
9/24/2021
What Are We Learning? Gender Development – an Ongoing Process Throughout Development
Donald Spivak, MD
10/24/2019
Embrace Your Neuroses! Illusions of Everyday Life
A. Chris Heath, MD
11/15/2018
Learning to Cope: Lessons from the Movies
Volney Gay, PhD
11/30/2017
Understanding Race, Social Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens
Neil Altman, PhD
10/26/2016
Childhood Trauma in Cultural Context
Gabriel Ruiz, LCPC
10/22/2015
Pink Parenting: Providing a Facilitating Environment for Gay & Lesbian Teens
Gary Grossman, PhD
11/6/2014
Remaining Relevant: The Key Role of Psychoanalytic Research
Andrew Gerber, MD, PhD
10/17/2013
Keeping Your Child in Mind: The Mindful Ways to Solve Everyday Behavior Problems – From Infancy through Adolescence
Claudia M. Gold, MD
12/6/2012
The Heart of Addiction: Understanding the Behavior
Lance M. Dodes, MD
10/27/2011
Meaning Making: How Infants and Young Children Make Meaning of Themselves in the World
Edward Tronick, PhD
10/14/2010
The Effects of Trauma on the Developing Child
Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD
3/6/2008
Psychological Roots of Community Violence
James Gilligan, MD
2/17/2006
Great Expectations and First Impressions
Adam Phillips
9/19/2003
Does Evil Have a Psychology
Jonathan Lear, PhD
4/12/2002
Father Hunger: Exploring the Fathering Principle and its Role in Development
James M. Herzog, MD
4/11/2000
Half Empty, Half Full
Susan C. Vaughan, MD
3/3/1998
Parenting Our Children – From Newborn to 30 Years Old and Beyond
Judith Viorst
5/14/1996
The Good Marriage
Judith S. Wallerstein, PhD
4/21/1995
Racism & Violence in the United States: The Psychological Underpinnings
Vamik Volkan, MD
The Hyman H. Fingert, MD Memorial Lecture Series
The Hyman H. Fingert, MD Memorial Lecture was established in 2000 by Judith Fingert Chused, MD, and Patricia Fingert to honor Hyman H. Fingert, MD, one of the founders of the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. The lecture is presented by the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Society and the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.
2/26/2026
The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Enactment, Trauma and Time
Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP
3/28/2025
What Words Can’t Say: The Talking Cure and the Limits of Language
Howard Levine, MD
4/11/2024
Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparation is the Road Less Traveled in our Racial and Sociocultural Healing and in our Reach for Human Resonance
Paula Christian Kliger, PhD
9/15/2022
Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth
Jack Drescher, MD
3/4/2022
Psychoanalysis of Culture, Culture of Psychoanalysis: Character in the Consulting Room
Dwarakanath G. Rao, MD
9/25/2020
Listening for Meaning Across Time
Bonnie Litowitz, PhD
10/4/2019
On the Value of the Lacanian Approach to Analytic Practice
Bruce Fink, PhD
9/28/2018
The Thanotics of Knowing: The Aggression Inherent to Analytic Process
Adele Tutter, MD, PhD
10/6/2017
On the Intergenerational Transmission of Sexual Fantasy in Two Analyses
Susan C. Vaughan, MD
9/23/2016
Attachment, Play and Sexuality: What Does Playing Look Like?
Norka Malberg, PsyD, LPC
9/25/2015
Self Care and the Logic of Play
Ken Corbett, PhD
3/27/2015
Anticipatory Greed and Compensatory Greed: Early Adolescence and the New Object, Later Adolescence and the Lost Object
Christine C. Keiffer, PhD
9/27/2013
Development of a Psychoanalyst
Judith Fingert Chused, MD
10/12/2012
Elusiveness and the Female Body: Some Problems in Female Psychoanalytic Gender Theory and Practice
Rosemary Balsam, MD
5/11/2012
Confusion of Tongues in Psychoanalysis: What Analysts Really Do in Their Consulting Rooms
Abbot Bronstein, PhD
9/24/2010
On Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: Psychoanalytic Knowledge as a Process
Fred Busch, PhD
10/2/2009
The Kore Complex on a Woman’s Inheritance of her Mother’s Failed Oedipus Complex
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD
9/26/2008
Close Encounters with Different Psychoanalytic Institutes over the Decades
E. James Anthony, MD
9/28/2007
Endings, Beginnings, and the Countertransference
Herbert S. Schlesinger, PhD
9/15/2006
I Read the Kite Runner and Loved It: The Concept of “Anonymity” Revisited
Carolyn Ellman, PhD
4/2/2004
Imaginary Garden, Real Toads: Reflections on Changing Views of the Analytic Process and the Process of Change
Theodore J. Jacobs, MD
9/20/2002
Enactments in the Therapeutic Setting
Owen Renik, MD & Judith Chused, MD, Discussant
9/22/2000
Why Theory?
Judith Fingert Chused, MD