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
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.
August 31, 2023. A.I on the Couch. Tehran’s 4th Congress of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Tehran, Iran (zoom).
September 8, 2023. Staying Human in the Age of Advanced Technology. The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Westchester, NY (zoom).
September 30, 2023. Fifty Shades of Upgrade: The Existential Escapades of Sex-Tech. Intelligence Unbound Symposium (zoom).
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.
October 21, 2023. From Solitude to Relatedness. NYU Postdoc Weekend.
October 28-9. Psychosis and Cannabis. ISPS Annual Conference, U. Delaware.
November 18-19, 2023. Creativity, Sexuality, and Technology. Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies. Birmingham, VT
December 2023. From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis. Freud Museum, London.
December 15-16, 2023. Staying Human in the Age of AI. Dutch Association of Psychotherapy. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
March 8, 2024. Alone in a Crowded Mind: When Psychosis Masks Loneliness. International Psychoanalytical Association’s Journal Club.
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