“Nasty Women: Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression"

“Nasty Women: Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression, A Psychoanalytic Perspective”

Janet Zuckerman, PhD, JD

Friday, April 4, 2025

6:30PM – 8:30PM (EST)

PPSC

Live Webinar on Zoom

$60 Regular Admission and $40 Student

*This talk provides 2 hours of continuing education credits for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMHCs, LCATs, LMFTs, and licensed psychologists.

In this presentation, Dr. Janet Zuckerman addresses the fraught relationship between women and aggression, one that is troubled by age-old patriarchal forces that disparage women’s ambition, assertion, and voice. Approached from a psychoanalytic perspective, the workshop details the sociocultural forces that infect a woman’s intrapsychic dynamics and compel her to sacrifice her goals and dreams. The critical question of how a woman can ever succeed in this disabling environment is addressed through interviews with six highly influential women who reimagine their own “nastiness” as an innovative, vitalizing tool that powers their success.

Janet Rivkin Zuckerman, PhD, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and previously practicing attorney. She is a former director, current faculty member, and clinical consultant at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy. She is a clinical consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. She conducts supervision and study groups in interpersonal/relational psychoanalysis and is in private practice in Rye, NY. She is the author of . She can be reached at [email protected].

Learning Objectives

After attending this presentation, participants will be able to:

• identify the dilemma many women face in expressing aggression in all its forms in our culture.
• describe the way psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help women reclaim their aggression and exercise it in life-changing ways.
• discuss how six powerful women harnessed their aggression and achieved notable success.

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00: Introduction to the crucible of women and aggression.

7:00 – 7:30: Discuss clinical examples where female patients reclaimed their aggression and positively exercised it in their lives.

7:30 – 8:00: Illustrate how six high-powered women used their aggression in their rise to professional success.

8:00 – 8:30: Q & A.

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Event Venue

Online