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
- 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.
