SYMPOSIUM: Talking Cures
"Speak What We Feel": Affects, Symbols, Change
Saturday, November 21 / 1:00 – 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
How do visual, verbal, and paraverbal signs differ in the ways they engage and express affects? And how do signs engage affects in the first place? The conference presentations focus on dream symbolism, neuronal "mirroring," rorschach testing, and the stories we tell about the signs we perceive. Speak What We Feel brings together clinicians and academicians to explore the current state of our knowledge about the brain/mind's love of signifying, the affective power of the arts, and the potential of signs to transform silent trauma into acts of communication. Featuring James Fosshage (NYU), Regina Pally (UCLA), and Steven Smith (UCSB). Free to undergraduate and graduate students and members of the public; candidates, $50.00; MFTs, Psy.Ds and Ph.Ds, $75.00; MDs, $125.00. Contact lfraden@english.ucsb.edu.
Sponsored by the English Department’s Literature and the Mind symposium and the IHC.
