GAP (Group for Applied Psychology)
IPSA runs this group, which meets monthly for dinner and
the discussion of a pre-circulated paper by an invited guest or one of
the IPSA regulars (often work in progress). GAP members are concerned with
the application of psychology to other fields: literature, for example,
or the arts, anthropology, law, or sociology. Topics range from the history
of psychoanalysis to case presentations to the showing of psychologically-oriented
films.
Over the years, our visitors have included: Jeffrey Berman, Christopher Bollas, Thomas Caramagno, John Gedo, Phyllis Grosskurth, George Lakoff, Eric S. Rabkin, Paul Roazen, Madelon Sprengnether, Robert Tucker, Mark Turner, David Willbern, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, and many other distinguished thinkers. Our local members come from the English Department: Andrew Gordon, Norman
Holland, David Leverenz, Marie Nelson, Bernard Paris, Peter Rudnytsky;
from Linguistics: Anne Wyatt-Brown; from Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology:
Molly Harrower, Ross McElroy and Sam Greenberg; and from other departments:
Dan Moors (French), Bertram Wyatt-Brown (History), Hernan Vera (Sociology).
Many others participate occasionally in IPSA, among them local clinicians.
If you share our interests and are going to be near Gainesville, give Ms. Sonja
Moreno a call at (352) 392-7332 to see if
there's a GAP you might wish to attend.
Programs for 1994-97 have been as follows:
- September, 1994: Norman Holland (English, University
of Florida)
- The Internet Regression
- October, 1994: Al and Peggy Tilley (English; Counseling,
University of North Florida
- Life Stories and Therapy
- November, 1994: Andrew Gordon and Hernan Vera (English;
Sociology, University of Florida)
- The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Sincere Fictions
of the White Self in the American Cinema
- December, 1994: Bertram Wyatt-Brown (History, University
of Florida)
- The Desperate Imagination: Writers and Melancholy
in the Modern American South
- January, 1995: Cynthia Griffin Wolff (Humanities, M.I.T.)
- Time and Memory in Cather's Sapphira
and the Slave Girl: Sex, Abuse, and Art
- February, 1995: Eric Rabkin (English, University of Michigan)
- Forbidden Fruit: The Thematics of Eating in Science-Fiction
- March, 1995: Stephanie Ortega (German, SUNY at Buffalo)
- Object Relations and Violence: Margarethe von Trotta's
Response to the Question `Where Do Lady Terrorists Come From?'
- April, 1995: Lawrence Friedman (History, Indiana University)
- Erik H. Erikson's Critical Themes and Voices: The
Task of Synthesis
September, 1995. Norman Holland (English, University
of Florida)- 8 1/2 and Me, together with a showing of the
Fellini film
- October, 1995. Bruce Thomas Boehrer (English, Florida
State University)
- The Ordure of Things: Historicizing Ben Johnson's
Anality
- November, 1995. Peter Rudnytsky (English, University
of Florida)
- `Private Wounds': Psychoanalytic Reflections on
Domestic Tragedy (on four Renaissance plays)
- January, 1996:. Andrew Gordon (English, University of
Florida)
- Shame and Saul Bellow's `Something to Remember
Me By'
- February, 1996: Paul Roazen (Emeritus, Political Science,
York University)
- The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
- April, 1996: Virginia Blum (English, University of Kentucky)
- Plastic Surgery and Narcissism
September, 1996: Norman Holland (English, University
of Florida)- Vertigo and Me, together with a showing of
the Hitchcock film
- October, 1996: Prof. Jeffrey Berman (English, SUNY/Albany)
- Unmasking Shame in a Writing Course
- November, 1996, Samuel Greenberg, M.D. (Dept. of Psychiatry,
University of Florida, Emeritus)
- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Psychosocial Issues
- Dec. 5, 1996, Peter Rudnytsky (English, University of
Florida)
- Fear of the Vagina in King Lear
- Jan. 23, 1997: Tom Maren (Dept. of Pharmacology, University
of Florida)
- Coleridge, DeQuincy, and Opium Addiction
- Feb. 27, 1997: Christopher Fortune (independent scholar,
Canada) of Florida)
- The Ferenczi-Groddeck correspondence
- Mar. 20, 1997: Stephanie Dryden (English, Stetson University)
- Female Fetishism in Fiction
- Apr. 17, 1997: David Willbern (English, SUNY/Buffalo)
- On Shakespeare's Style
- Jan. 29, 1998: Prof. Barbara Shapiro (Rhode Island College)
-
Transitional States and Psychic Change: Thoughts on Reading D.H. Lawrence
- Feb. 3, 1998: Prof. Phyllis Grosskurth (University of Toronto)
- Byron: The Flawed Angel
- Mar. 19, 1998: Prof. Bertram Wyatt-Brown (University of Florida)
- Dark Forebodings:
Edgar Allen Poe's Influence, Honor, and Madness
- Apr. 16, 1998: Prof. Cynthia Burack (Poly Sci., University of Florida)
- Does Psychoanalysis Have a Place?
- Sep. 12, 1998: Prof. Norman Holland (English, University of Florida)
- The Seventh Seal
- Oct. 8, 1998: Prof. Maureen Turim (University of Florida)
- Let's Hope the Red Army Isn't Listening in on Us
- Nov. 12, 1998: Prof. Scott Nygren (University of Florida)
- Urga and the Metapsychology of Postnational Identity
- Dec. 3, 1998: Prof. Claire Kahane (SUNY, Buffalo)
- The Maternal Scream in Cynthia Ozick
If you share our interests and are going to be near Gainesville
on one of our evenings, do give us a call at (904) 392-7332 to see if there's
a GAP you might enjoy.
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