Speaker

Dr. Knafo is a popular lecturer both nationally and abroad. She speaks at large conferences as well as intimate settings on a variety of topics, ranging from unconscious fantasies, women’s art, creative transformations of trauma, the treatment of psychosis, technology and perversion, and more.

Upcoming Talks

  • May 17, 2022. Digital Desire and the Online Imposter: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Catfishing. Anna Freud Centre. London.
  • September 20, 2022. Unraveling Psychosis. Grand Rounds, Westchester Medical Center. Westchester, NY.
  • November 4, 2022. From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Psychosis. ISPS-US. Sacramento, CA
  • November 13, 2022. The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. NYSSCSW.
  • November 18, 2022. Guys and Dolls: A Pygmalion Fantasy.  Love and Sex with Robots, 7th International Congress .
  • January 5, 2023. From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Psychosis. Psike. Istanbul, Turkey.
  • January 28, 2023. Fifty Shades of Upgrade: The Existential Escapades of Tech-Sex. Marianne Goldberger Inaugural Memorial Lecture, PANY, Psychoanalytic Association of NY.
  • March 9, 2023. Sex without Bodies: How Advanced Technology and AI have Resulted in the Disappearance of the Body. (via Zoom) Rome, Italy
  • March 29, 2023. Working with Negative Symptoms. ISPS Psychoanalytic Interest Group, Clinical Conference.
  • May 28, 2023. Staying Human in an Era of Advanced Technology. Joint International Conference. Naxos, Greece.
  • October 8, 2023. Surviving AI: The Algorithms of Everyday Life. Freudian Lounge, NYU Postdoctoral Program.
  • October 13, 2023. The New Sexual Landscape. PPSC Annex. New York.
  • November 18-19, 2023. Creativity, Sexuality, and Technology. Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies. Birmingham, VT
  • December 15-16, 2023. Understanding and Working with GenZ, GenX, and Millenials. Dutch Association of Psychotherapy. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

PANY Marianne Goldberger Memorial Lecture 2023

Adelphi Society for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy: A Conversation with Spyros Orfanos PhD (part 1)

Adelphi Society for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy: A Conversation with Spyros Orfanos PhD (part 2)

Psychoanalytic Authors on the Couch: Danielle Knafo on the Life & Work of Carlo Strenger

Unraveling psychosis – From the 2021 Psychotherapy for Psychosis Virtual Conference, Austen Riggs, Stockbridge, MA

Psychosis: Key Psychoanalytic Concepts

Psychotherapy with Psychosis – interview with Igor Pietkiewicz

Excerpt from the film “Take These Broken Wings”

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