Keynote Speakers:
Cathy Caruth, PhD
- Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Emory University
- Author of Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History
- Editor of Trauma: Explorations in Memory
Francoise Davoine, PhD, and Jean-Max Gaudilliere, PhD
- Psychoanalysts in Private Practice
- Professors at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- Authors of History Beyond Trauma: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one cannot stay silent
- Don Quichotte: Pour Combattre la Melancolie (Davoine)
Jacob Lindy, MD
- Supervising and Training Analyst, Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
- Director, University of Cincinnati Traumatic Stress Study Center
- Author, with John Wilson, of Trauma and Metaphor (forthcoming)
- Editor, with Robert Jay Lifton, of: Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma
Bruce Perry, MD
- Teacher, clinician, and researcher in children’s mental health and the neurosciences
- Senior Fellow of the Child Trauma Institute, Houston, TX
- Co-author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: What Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- http://www.childtraumaacademy.org
Howard Steele, PhD
- Associate Professor of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York
- Senior and Founding Editor, Attachment and Human Development
- Co-Author, Clinical Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview
- Author of more than 60 articles and book chapters