Sue Erikson Bloland, LCSW

I am available for speaking engagements, workshops and presentations. Please contact me for more information.

 

Professional Presentations:

 

*The Childhood Roots of Extraordinary Human Achievement

Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, New York City, September, 2019.

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*Remembering the Relationship Between Norman Rockwell and Erik Erikson.

Opening of the “Rockwell and Erikson Exhibition” at the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, June, 2019.

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*Childhood Trauma and the Drive to Attain Greatness

National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York City, January, 2017.

*Childhood Trauma and the Achievement of Greatness

Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Larchmont, NY, December, 2016.

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*Early Relational Trauma and the Drive to Achieve Fame

National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York City, January, 2016.

 

*Psychotherapy in a Culture of Celebrity

New York State Society for Clinical Social Work, White Plains, New York, March, 2013

 

• The Importance of Shame in Modern Psychoanalytic Theory

Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, March, 2012.

 

• Fame: The Illusion and the Reality

Adelphi University, Garden City, New York,  January, 2010.

 

• Discussion of In the Shadow of Fame

Discussion Group on the History of Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York City, January, 2010.

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• Fame, Childhood and the Family

Pittsburgh Association for Psychoanalytic Thought and the Department of Psychology in Education, University of Pittsburgh, November, 2006.

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• The Legacy of Famous Fathers: A Conversation with Sue Erikson Bloland, Nancy Blackmun and Adam Bellow

The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, January, 2006.

 

• Identity and the Celebrity Phenomenon in Modern Life

American Psychological Association,   Division of Psychoanalysis (39), Washington, D.C., August, 2005.

 

• Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Celebrity Phenomenon

American Psychoanalytic Association, Seattle, Washington, June, 2005.

 

• Fame and the Denial of Death

New York Chapter of the Ernest Becker Foundation, New York University, May 15, 2005; and the Ernest Becker Foundation, Seattle, Washington, June, 2005.

 

• In the Shadow of Fame: Meet the Author Session

American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), New York City, April, 2005.

 

• Childhood and Society: The Next Generation

Western Massachusetts and Albany Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, November, 2003.

 

• Trauma as a Precursor to Extraordinary Achievement

American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), New York City, April, 2002.

 

• Fame, Psychoanalysis and Erik H. Erikson: A Daughter’s Reflections

American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), Washington, D.C., August, 2000.

 

• Fame and Pathological Narcissism

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Jamaica, NY, June, 2000

 

• The Legacy of Erik H. Erikson

Panel Discussion with Lawrence Friedman and Paul Roazen, Harvard University School of Education, Cambridge, February, 2000.

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