Siri Hustvedt: When the Protagonist is a Psychoanalyist

Friends of the Newman Library and the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health (PCMH) present the fifth annual Evening in the Oak Room, celebrating the affiliation of the PCMH with the Newman Library and featuring guest speaker and acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. The relationship between psychoanalysis and literature is explored.

Ona Lindquist, Chair, Community Relations, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health introduces the event and reads from her personal work involving a psychoanalyst as protagonist. Edith Gould, Training Analyst, Senior Supervsor and former editor of Psychonalysis and Psychotherapy discusses the role psychoanalysis plays in literature and film.

The evening's featured speaker, Siri Hustvedt, reads from her latest novel in progress, The Sorrows of an American which features a psychoanalyst as the story's protagonist.

The event took place on November 4, 2005 in Newman Library's Oak Room.