Speaking
Dr. Garfinkle enjoys speaking to both professional and general audiences. She been an invited lecturer on Narrative Medicine, the medical humanities, psychotherapy, and psychiatry at multiple hospitals and national conferences. She has spoken to audiences of parents and professional caregivers about child development, sibling rivalry, and how to help children become great eaters.
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
”Best Practices in the Medical Humanities”, Cedars-Sinai History of Medicine Speaker Series.
2019
“Medical Humanities and the Art of Listening” Guest lecturer in Positive Medicine class, Medical Humanities and the Art of Listening.
2019
Grand Rounds on the Art of Listening Program, Department of Psychiatry, Maimonedes Medical Center.
2018
“How to Feed your Children: The Maternal Experience,” The Susan Sherkow Center, Series for Parents and Professional Development.
2017
Sibling Rivalry. My Nanny Circle conference, organized by Alene Mathurin, grass-roots group focused on the training and empowerment of caregivers.
2017
”The Literary and Culinary Imaginations” for Chef David Bouley’s Series, “Chef and the Doctor”.
2015
“Best Practives in Medical Humanities,” Drexel School of Medicine.
2012
”Girlhood, Translated Tour”, Book Signing at Wonderland. Bethesda, MD
”Girlhood, Translated Tour”, Glenbrook HS D225. Lunch-and-Learn gathering for school counselors.
”Girlhood, Translated Tour”, The Illinois Student Assistance Commission. Deerhood, IL
”Girlhood, Translated Tour”, North Shore Country Day School. Winnetla, IL
Annual Endowed Grand Rounds on Medical Humanities, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital, Manhasset, NY.
2012
Invited Lecture on Psychodynamics of Physician-Assisted Suicide, Columbia University, New York, NY.
2012
“What Happened to the Case History? Expanding the ‘Evidence’ in Psychodynamic Therapy Training.” Paper. Research session, Spring Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Washington, DC.
2003
”Writing About Medicine.” Grand Rounds Speaker. Mount Sinai School of Medicine. New York, NY.
VOLUNTARY PRESENTATIONS
2009
Garfinkle S, Hamilton M, Wininger L, Garfinkle M, Roose S. Diagnosis of Depression vs Anxiety by Psychoanalytic Candidates. Scientific Poster. Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, NY.
2008
“Why is Ms. Q’s Desk So Messy? Loss and Mourning after a Neurological Event.” Case Presentation. New York State Psychiatric Institute “PI-Wide” Case Confer- ence.
2004
”Girlhood, Translated Tour”, Thursday November 5th, 7:00 PM. PEN American Author Dinner. By invitation only at Do Not Disturb
”Girlhood, Translated Tour”, Thursday October 22nd, 6:00 PM. The Parents League, The Hewitt School Library, 45 East 75th Street, New York, NY
”Girlhood, Translated Tour”, Tuesday October 18th, 2:00 PM. Georgetown University School of Medicine (private event, talk for trainees)
Past
”Does ‘Talking Cure’ Without ‘Cure’ Leave Only Talk? A Search for the Place of Cure in Psychoanalytic Theory”. Paper. Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine Conference. Gainesville, FL.
Upcoming
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