The Muriel Dimen Fellowship provides opportunities for academics in areas other than psychoanalysis, who are interested in furthering their knowledge and application of it by engaging in interdisciplinary conversations with mentors from the IARPP community. Fellows will present their projects at a special Muriel Dimen panel at the IARPP Conference in Los Angeles in 2020.
Fellows are chosen from applicants who live in the country in which the conference is being held. If the conference is held in the US, applicants from Canada and Mexico are also eligible.
We are proud to announce that the 2020 Muriel Dimen Fellows are:
Naomi Morgenstern, PhD: Naomi is a literary scholar and Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where she has taught for over twenty years. She is interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, and in exploring whether or not there are Relational theorists (including and in addition to Winnicott and Benjamin) who write about motherhood in ways that contemporary clinicians find helpful. She would also like to learn more about how clinicians find themselves addressing questions of parenthood/motherhood in relationship to distinctively contemporary anxieties (ex. in relationship to climate change and/or in relationship to the decision to have a child in the 21st century).
Naomi’s mentor will be Galit Atlas, PhD.
Stephanie Koziej, MA, MPhil: Stephanie is originally from Belgium and came to the United States to attend Johns Hopkins University as a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. She is currently a 6th-Year PhD Candidate in Women, Gender & Sexuality studies at Emory University and is pursuing a Psychoanalytic Studies certificate (academic stream) at their Psychoanalytic Studies Program (PSP).
Following Benjamin’s work on the rhythmic third and Stern’s work on affect attunement, Stephanie proposes that music and sound are better media to “capture” the ephemeral and fluid nature of tenderness, attunement, and intersubjectivity. She wishes to encourage her students to take relational ideas and transform them beyond theory and clinical practice, into art.
Stephanie’s mentor will be Estelle Shane, PhD.
Roberto D’Angelo (Australia)
Hilary Offman (Canada) and
Stephen Hartman (United States), Co-Chairs