[Picture info.: Catherine Silver (center) next to Patricia T. Clough (right)
surrounded by students and faculty.]
Personal
Statement-Academic:
I was trained as a sociologist getting my Ph.D from Columbia
University
in 1970. I came from France
after receiving a Masters degree from the Sorbonne (Paris) and being awarded a
Fulbright Fellowship. After a year at Columbia
University
and working at the Bureau of Social Research, I decided that New York
was the place where I belonged. New York
became my home. I taught sociology and socio-psychoanalysis at Brooklyn
College
and the Graduate
Center
of the City University of New York from 1971-2007. In 1989, I became a
psychoanalyst.
I was involved in feminist issues and the women’s
movement directing for several years the Women's Studies Program
at Brooklyn
College
and for a short period the Center for the Study Women and Society at the Graduate
Center. I was trained to do historical
analysis as well as quantitative work. I have continued to do both types of
research all through my academic career. I taught Social Theory, Gender
and Family, sociology of medicine, feminist research, work and organization, the
sociology of aging, and psychoanalytic sociology (see
attached course outlines).
Current
Research:
-Writing a history of the relationship between sociology, feminist
theory, and psychoanalysis in collaboration with Professor George Cavalletto.
-Interviewing social theorists to assess the role of psychoanalysis in
theory construction and research. In collaboration with Professor Lynn Chancer
Future
Events:
I am interested in exploring further the links between
sociology and psychoanalysis. I am part of a small discussion group on Social
Theories and Psychoanalysis, where we read relevant material and discuss each
other research. If you are
interested in joining this group, and you have done research on psychoanalytic
sociology, you can contact me.
Our next event is a mini conference as part of the American
Sociological Association Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts on August 1-4,
2008. If interested please register
with ASA at http://asanet.org/
The ASA meeting in San Francisco, California on August
8-11, 2009, will include several panels on psychoanalysis and sociology.
If you are interested in participating, contact me.
