The Body Speaks: Affects and Emotions as Links, presented by Judy Eekhoff, PhD

Live via Zoom

The body, as a psychoanalytic object, presents in the consulting room as unmediated affect. Unmediated affect is a physical response that has not yet been represented via emotional links with psychic functioning. As a result, rather than being embodied, patients who have suffered childhood trauma frequently present with dissociated body Read more…

A.I. on the Couch: Staying Human in the Age of Advanced Technology, presented by Danielle Knafo, PhD

Health Learning Building UT Austin 1501 Red River St, Austin, TX, United States

This lecture will explore the intimate connection that has always existed between sex and technology. Dr. Knafo will describe how sex and technology partner for pleasure, novelty, transcendence, and perversion. The internet and associated technologies (AI) have enabled the creation of an alternative adult world of sex dolls and sex Read more…