Presented by Dr. Lauren Levine, Ph.D.

In this presentation, Dr. Lauren Levine will reflect on the power of stories to create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of ungrieved trauma. Through evocative clinical stories, she will explore creativity as transformative, emergent in the clinical process, drawing on film, dance, and literature and dreams as frames for experience exceeding what words alone can capture. As an analyst and writer, Dr. Levine is interested in the stories we tell, individually and collectively, the interstitial gaps created by unmetabolized trauma, and that potential for an intimate psychoanalytic process to help patients become the storytellers of their own lives.