Friday, February 17, 2023
Returning to The Diary of Anne Frank
From a Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspective
Presented by Katherine Dalsimer, Ph.D.
6:00 PM to 6:30 PM socializing
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM presentation
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM Q&A
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About our speaker
Katherine Dalsimer, Ph.D., is a member of the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and is Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Previously she was Senior Psychologist at the Columbia University Mental Health Service.
Dr. Dalsimer has taught undergraduates at Columbia and residents in psychiatry at Cornell. Throughout her teaching and writing, she has drawn upon works of literature to explore psychological questions. In addition to numerous presentations, articles, and book chapters, she is the author of Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature and Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer, both published by Yale University Press. Her most recent publication is a chapter titled “Encountering Invisible Presence: Virginia Woolf and Julia Duckworth Stephen” in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis, ed. V. Camden. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
SUMMARY:
Anne Frank is known around the world by the millions who have read her diary. First published in Dutch in 1947 and since translated into 70 languages, its pages were left scattered on the floor by the SS when the Franks’ hiding place in Amsterdam was discovered and its eight occupants sent to concentration camps. Only her father, Otto Frank, survived. Anne died in Bergen Belsen a few months before her 16th birthday.
Anne Frank cannot change. She will always be the 13-year-old, then 14-year old, then 15-year-old girl we have come to know through her diary. Anne cannot change–but we, her readers, have changed. For us, time has gone on. We are older than we were when we first encountered Anne Frank–perhaps in high school, reading her diary when we ourselves were close to the age she was when she wrote it.
And the world has changed. Over eighty years have passed since the day Anne Frank began to keep her diary: it was June 12, 1942, her 13th birthday. We are living in a world different from the one in which she wrote her diary, and different from the post-war period in which it was first published. Changed as we ourselves are–altered as our world is–I propose to return to this work of a young writer, whose name I believe we would know as a writer had she lived to fulfill the remarkable promise of what she has given us.
Objectives:
Objective 1: To learn about the elements of healthy female development in adolescence
Objective 2: To focus on the adolescence of the future writer
Objective 3: To reflect on the personal context that we, as readers, bring to The Diary of Anne Frank
References:
Katherine Dalsimer (l986), Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Anne Frank (1991), The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition. New York: Anchor Books.
Continuing Education (pending approval) – $12
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. For further information, contact Eli Zaller, M.D. at ejzdewe@aol.com or 804-288- 3251.
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